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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus and the fact that its View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around Procter & Gamble since taking over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
girls in a village near Beirut. Today, with Bistany at the helm, SABIS educates some 62,000 students in 60 K–12 nondenominational schools (including 15 in the United States) in 15 countries on four continents, and is hoping to enroll more... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Club of South Florida. The gathering took place at the Four Seasons Palm Beach Resort and featured a breakfast... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
case. The more I started to share my story, the more empowered I got and the weaker that inner critic voice got. And so it's such an important piece to finding total freedom is sharing your story. And so in week four with my clients,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
what’s fueling the greens. Southwest Airlines would be red on food service. But Southwest doesn’t pay much attention to that, because getting better at food service would slow its turnaround time, which is a big green for the airline when... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
school fresh out of Yale. "I should have listened to my father," he admits with a wry smile. After four years of "just reading and writing" as an insurance company lawyer, Shafir, then newly wed to his wife, Lorna, entered HBS in 1982.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
great pipeline of diverse talent is a big part of that.” Comer says he’s excited to support Morris Brown’s resurgence with this partnership, “particularly given how instrumental the college was in my personal development as a business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the present. Kiechel’s narrative... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
company is planning to add 50 employees over the next year and currently is serving more than 500 clients in 50 industries throughout Brazil, as well as clients in Turkey, Argentina, and Portugal. “Hanging a three-foot check for $50,000 in a conference room has had a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival, centered around indoor cycling. Each... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Keeper, a faith-inspired humanitarian organization that partners with South Sudanese women in support of social, political, and economic justice. In 2016, Brooks and a friend spent four days hiking the 26-mile Inca Trail in Peru to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
own, obviously, the rights to the brand, the Lego brand. And it's going to impact them in a very, very big way. This is not a subbrand. This is not a Ninjago movie, or a Bionicle movie, or Chima movie. What I asked them for The Lego Movie... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
“Surely you don’t want me to hire somebody for a job that doesn’t exist?” The reaction from callers has been very positive and very respectful. Months of bad press after 9/11 must have crushed morale. How did you turn that around? Through a quirk of history, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation; and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
yearlong program ended, she moved into one of the nonprofit’s four live/work spaces. Dutta’s studio is a riot of raw materials; works in progress and piles of leather and velvet occupy every surface. One of her finished pieces hangs in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
results—in terms of worker satisfaction, client satisfaction, and improvements in work processes—were so positive that within four years, over 900 BCG teams from 30 countries had gone through similar exercises. So this was a team-by-team... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
students. “So many of our faculty wanted to be involved, which was a nice problem to have,” says Vicki Good, program director for Executive Education. “In all, we had 11 faculty members for a five-day program that included four classes... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley