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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and Chicago. Height is not the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a demanding and exciting career path,"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
ROLE MODELS: Baltimore principal Cindy Harcum says PELP's strength is helping participants consider the application of business models while understanding the unique challenges of their field. A grizzled Baltimore cabbie does a double take when an out-of-town visitor... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai HBS Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) was working as a technology and innovation advisor in the San José mayor’s office in the fall of 2017 when he began thinking about the plight of families forced from... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell appointed Wallace Brett Donham the Dean of Harvard Business School a century ago in October. The School’s longest-serving dean, Donham led HBS for... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Control and Prevention. Were there any topics that you had to omit that you wish you could have covered? There was a chapter on how to fall in love, which I really wanted to include, but my editor thought it was too subjective. — Deborah... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
nationalist tendencies that would emerge after the breakup would be uniformly detrimental to Western interests. Abdelal’s research draws instructive lessons from the fact that neither of these scenarios materialized and suggests that policymakers need to take a closer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
fairly stressful. “Switching jobs is hard work,” he says. “You’re processing a lot of new information, and anxiety is normal and even healthy in a situation like that.” After a few months, he relates, “your stress level should plateau, and your effectiveness as a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
the growing acceptance of e-mail acknowledgments, Butler advises, “A genuine, elegant, handwritten thank-you note is still the gold standard. It leaves a more lasting impression.” — Deborah E. Blagg View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
project flopped, don't attack the person"). Deborah Blagg: Classic productivity books often focus on time management, but Extreme Productivity takes a much broader look. It reads more like a businessperson's handbook. Did you intend... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three years after declaring that his influential holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price."... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
Despite the obvious temptation, Jeff Scheel (MBA 1990) has not yet given up his day job in favor of his frontman role in the Wildcats, a classic rock dance band the New York Times once dubbed “perhaps the most popular Palo Alto dad band.” “It’s the ‘perhaps’ that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
The daughter of Nigerian and Togolese immigrants who settled in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001) was raised to know the value of a strong family and a good education. In light of the sacrifices her parents made to give her a solid start in life... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
care to a system where it is all managed care. So even though the U.S. insurance system is large and decentralized, when we move, we actually move with dizzying rapidity. — Deborah E. Blagg View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after studying with ethnographer John... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Left to right: Feeley, Belkin, O'Donnell, Mathias, and Benton It was, in the words of one MBA '71 yearbook scribe, "a trying two years" at HBS. The class that celebrates its 25th Reunion this year came to Soldiers Field in September 1969, one month after Woodstock and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
computer problems on a website, companies that design those interactions purely to cut costs don't succeed. But when they actively partner with their customers to deliver a better service experience," she relates, "that's the path to all-around... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen carefully arranges desks in an empty seminar room. In a voice-over,... View Details