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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
Professor Jeff Polzer focused on team management issues. “Besides being informational from an academic point of view, the case discussions and faculty involvement were great ways to facilitate interaction with our peers,” says Bruce... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
teaching ability and great knowledge." "By the time I returned for the second session, I realized that not only was I gaining knowledge, but others were finding my European experiences beneficial," he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
what we must do to assure a second great century for Harvard Business School.” With this issue, we are introducing a new feature, Investing in HBS, that highlights news and information about alumni gift... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
The second annual HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAAA) conference was held in Chicago, October 8-10. Titled "Creating and Preserving Wealth: Leading the Next Great Migration," the two-day... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
produces great results in some cases is that when there’s a winner-take-all or a winner-take-most market, the first company to achieve critical scale becomes the enduring market leader. It ends up becoming what we call a Glengarry Glen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
How do you follow a successful first act? With an even more successful second act, say three members of the HBS community involved in producing Respond II, a double CD of women artists released in January. Like its predecessor, Respond II... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The second in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1987, H. Perry Driggs, Jr. (MBA '61), has been president of Great Lakes Capital Corporation in Farmington... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Decide by Dave Ramos (MBA 1989) (Advantage Media Group) The way for an organization to win is to become differentiatingly great at one thing. Every executive team must decide what their one thing is, and Ramos finds that this concept gets... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Boom Times Ahead
Dent: a track record of being right on the money. Photo courtesy Harry Dent For investors, 2005 is going to be a very good year, and several more will follow, stock market guru Harry Dent (MBA ’79) claims in his new book, The Next Great... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
case study, as relevant today as it was then, of society breaking down under the brutalizing effects of war. For many subjects, from history to philosophy, from ethics to aesthetics, our intellectual inheritance from the ancient Greeks is so vital that those of us who... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Wisdom and a special cause
Lorne Adrain (MBA '83), who owns an insurance and estate-planning business in Providence, Rhode Island, has just published his second book, The Most Important Thing I Know about the Spirit of Sport. "Inside are handwritten thoughts from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future
have been as diverse as the School’s more than 70,000 alumni. Yet there has been one clear and consistent area of agreement: Alumni care passionately about the future of HBS, and we welcome the opportunity to support HBS and the new Dean as we usher in the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Ann Kelly
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
also notable for its activity in the community, “investing millions of dollars, and with nearly one-third of employees volunteering their time to help out with community-based organizations,” the Australian reported. In 2010, for the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
round of this second annual competition. Besides BioMine, the other semifinalists were PhytoTEK (New York/Washington, D.C.), a staph infection–fighting system, and Card- Swap (Toronto), which cashes in unwanted gift cards. The finals of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
why people might go into frontier markets. The first is that there is a perception arbitrage opportunity. In other words, the perception of the country is that it's quite bad, but the reality on the ground is different, and there actually are good investment... View Details