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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
and your organization. Escape the bubble. With more than 90 percent of our information-gathering happening online these days, we are subject to more and more confirmation bias in the information we consume. The result is de facto tunnel View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
where we don't speak about business matters—going on a jog together, date night, or work-free vacation. A break is healthy for everyone to recharge, regroup, and reflect." How do you use what you learned at HBS at IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals (Fensterstock is a senior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
succeed. They investigate the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies, although they often had to struggle against unresponsive organizations and peers and even their own personal fears. The authors show how... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Alumni Books Boeing Metamorphosis: Launching the 737 and 747, 1965–1969 by John Fredrickson and John Andrew (MBA 1959) Schiffer Military History Welcome to the world of corporate decision-making, workplace gambles, and myriad human... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
organization and in all sectors of society. Leaders of any venture—whether a Fortune 500 corporation or a grassroots nonprofit—are responsible for articulating the vision for the organization in a way that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
George Floyd moment —have really internalized that vision of that. And are now doing work to really understand what's behind this. Does systematic racism really exist and why? CEOs and others have to look in the mirror and simply make the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
larger corporate setting? Yes, say a number of HBS professors, including Rosabeth Moss Kanter, MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration, who is currently researching "intrapreneurship." The term, she says, refers both to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
the fact that they were in charge and I was working for them, my meals came out so fast. And I would share compliments, sometimes my diners would give the extra tips for them. And so I took this lesson through the rest of my three or four decades of View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
advanced’ approaches to corporate strategy, company organization, worker morale and productivity, and so on. I wanted to find a successful, well-established manufacturing company with a single product line and a clear, consistent approach... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
years, where your social life can be challenging with a 24/7 schedule,” she says. “I wanted to take advantage of everything HBS had to offer, including the cultural trips and social events.” Hess Corporation hired her after graduation to... View Details
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
standpoint. What will HBS do in terms of innovation to provide models and learnings where businesses can ensure everyone can be more secure and prosper and allow for significant wealth creation? —Clayton Chan (MBA 1996) Given the increasing income inequality, the... View Details