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- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
matter what class he took in school or position he held in a company. “I have always tried to assess what kinds of interesting experiences were available to me at any one time,” he observes. Learning for learning’s sake is a theme in his life. Poor marks in View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
investment — examining how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies shape and constrain their options. Having spent several years examining information-based industries, such as media and entertainment, her latest research project looks at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
mistaken idea that you can actually find ultimate satisfaction through success. Happiness science helps people break that cycle because it helps them to understand the nature of true satisfaction—how to get it and what true rewards should... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (MIT Press) U.S. venture capital firms have grown dramatically over the last two decades, nurturing a host of start-ups -- including Apple Computer, Genentech, Intel, Lotus,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Education. “While the corporation’s internal practices greatly impact the environment, H&M believes that 26% of the greenhouse gas emissions in a garment’s life cycle [occur] after the product is sold to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
government to address serious problems in our social fabric, how can the massive assets, talents, and organizational skills of the business community be harnessed to create an engine for dragging, pushing, and cajoling society to a higher... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
understand requirements of modification and research to enhance the product. At a more mature stage or later on, to prolong the life cycle of the product, AGR could switch to a Microsoft ecosystem to focus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
new competitive era." Breaking the Code of Change Edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School Press) With the restructuring and upheaval that has characterized life in the corporate world over the last two decades,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
headphones provided, and different chairs procured,” Fieldhouse said. Training sessions were developed to assist the autistic employees with life skills, such as travel planning, financial awareness and nutrition, as well as professional... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
portfolio familiar to any executive. Courtesy Amy Jen Su Courtesy Amy Jen Su What trends in the business world are creating new pressures on leaders? Organizational life in general has gotten more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Cleveland after HBS that he realized how much those experiences had meant. "There is no wilderness within easy driving distance of Cleveland," he notes. "I had gotten to the point where I took that aspect of my life for granted. When you... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
over hundreds of years: scientifically, it's absolutely elegant." Above ground, the garden is a tranquil vision of rustling corn, nodding sunflowers, and whirring insects. Below ground, things are less idyllic. The site's previous life as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
original Hendersonianism: “In this new environment, the essence of strategy is not the structure of a company’s position in products and markets, but the dynamics of its behaviors. The goal is to identify and develop the hard-to-imitate View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
begin with, some CEOs find the prospect of succession downright depressing. For them it means failure or organizational death. They love the job; it is their identity. They think of building a cohort of potential leaders, not as the path... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
complex and troubling questions of what to do when "doing the right thing" requires doing something else wrong or leaving a right thing undone. It examines choices in work and life and the critical points at which the two become one.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
far from the remote peninsula on Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu (MBA 1999) (DC Comics) In this installment of the Poison Ivy story, Dr. Pamela Isley,... View Details