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- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
week-long boot camps, or team-building activities for conventions,” she says. Markowitz notes that two HBS students—Meredith Uram (MBA 2014) and Andrew Dunckelman (MBA 2014)—helped to orient her and her board away from their original plan... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather manage, so I shifted my View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
of their talented employees by managing and developing them. It explains what it means to orient one's leadership style around a commitment to finding and cultivating high-performers. An American Journey by Mal Mixon (MBA 1968) (Smart... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards.” He defines those aspired-to benchmarks as sound corporate governance, transparency, an View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
students by name by the time the required curriculum began. ° Snow depth during the first two days of Foundations set an all-time record of 30 inches at Logan Airport, breaking the 29-inch record set by the blizzard of '78. ° Orientation... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
every case through that lens." O'Neill also became involved in the School's mentoring program with the Taft Middle School, and as General Academic Council representative for his section, he was a driving force in reshaping the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, VC: An American History shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. Author Tom Nicholas tells the riveting story of how the industry arose from the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
The big challenge is to communicate emotion-based intangibles in a market where consumers are oriented toward material things and getting value for their money. We're a big-ticket item, so we have to convey to the consumer the inherent... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a compass, it was an View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
a primary source of inspiration. Curiel, 18, walked away from that same deadly crash with minor injuries. He sees some symbolism in the fact that his father was making the trip from Oregon to California to take him to freshman orientation... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
engineering orientation into business. How do you explain Starbucks' success? In the past, coffee was treated as a commodity, with quality secondary to cost. So when we offered a terrific product in an appealing environment, with all the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
skill,” wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a business that lost its way. “They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. . . .They were product... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
hold an angel investor orientation every quarter as well.” Klein says the focus on investor education has several benefits. “Startups and entrepreneurs find great value in working with us,” he says. “It’s incredibly hands-on. You’re... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
orientation for the students to help demystify Harvard,” says Comer. “I told them their ‘mentors are ordinary folks who have done some extraordinary things in their careers, and now they are here to help you launch your career.’” Students... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
short time frames," "the role of business as society begins to seek more balance between material acquisition and spiritually oriented directions." Both alumni groups, especially younger grads, saw business schools as having only the same... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Burden Hall during orientation for the January 2001 cohort. That’s where Agarwala and Varma first met. “We stayed in contact as friends over the next two years, but there was no talk of starting a business,” recalls Agarwala. He and Varma... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
of the summer, Weenick recalls, one of HLW's program directors gradually began to use some of the "business-y" vocabulary she had introduced concerning issues of quality and efficiency. "It was instructive for me that it was not an 'ah-ha' moment," she says. "As time... View Details