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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
colleague, interviewed Levitt for a special video presentation shown at the The Globalization of Markets colloquium. Noting that in 1983 Levitt’s HBR article had “created a firestorm of debate,” Greyser asked him to recall its impact at... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
explained to an audience of returning MBA alumni during a reunion presentation last fall, “In approaching some one hundred companies, ranging from manufacturing to service businesses, we were attempting to discover the operating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
codifying values. Specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes for faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but little on what to teach. Faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
Operations Chief Andy O’Brien learned from his intern, a Brighton player, that the team’s championship had gone virtually uncelebrated, Andy and others at HBS swung into action. The result was a gala dinner at Spangler attended by some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
industry in a varied portfolio of investments (Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding are a special interest) for a man who has made a reputation based on “his philanthropy, a keen intellect, and a tough business manner.” View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
specializing in economic issues, has examined the comparative productivity of nations and completed numerous country studies. Gupta acknowledges that he himself was anything but worldly when he received his undergraduate degree in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
now, but that could change in a few years when the markets are right. "We specialize in restructuring patents, carrying out further development work, then getting them into the hands of strategic buyers who can bring them to market."... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
the wait: A four-course meal based on local corn and tomatoes, offered only in August. Weekend hobby: BBQ. "I usually do pork shoulder or ribs. A couple of years ago I got a special smoker. It's nice because it forces you to commit the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
becomes an unlikely entrepreneur, supporting her siblings when her father and brother are forced to flee the Taliban. Ashley’s War (2015) centers on the US military’s Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program that inserted women alongside View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
research also measured “offshorability” across occupations; those that require specialized local knowledge are more difficult to perform remotely, he found. Cavallo hopes to dig deeper over time, with particular interest in how wages and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
players to the table, none driven by purely economic rationale, says Lee Sandwen (MBA ’77, JD ’78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghanistan’s largest taxpayer and private employer. Starting any sort of company in Afghanistan in that time frame would have been a tall order, but a telecom operation posed a number of special challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
see some of the traditional historic sites and provided a unique perspective on business issues. Our alumni had the opportunity, while in China, to participate in three case studies and to visit joint ventures between Western companies and their Chinese partners and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
One of his agency’s current projects, the conversion of an aging 109-room motel into housing for the city’s homeless veterans, has special meaning for Cordova. Following a tour of duty as a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, Cordova attended... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone: Specializing in executive compensation and performance consulting. Courtesy Robin Ferracone Robin Ferracone (MBA 1980) is the founder (in 2007) and executive chair of Farient Advisors (www.farient.com) —a firm View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
shortages, we set up a special system called “Flagpole Reports.” (“Run it up the flagpole so everyone can see it.”) The first reports from Vietnam identified emerging shortages in aircraft flares, 40-mm ammunition, collapsible petroleum... View Details