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- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
Systems and Control, Management Information Systems, Foundations of Computer Systems, Management of Natural Resources, and Management of Nonprofit Organizations. He also taught... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
expenses associated with everyday activities such as management meetings, conferences, phone conversations, sales calls, reports, and memos. Hagel and Singer maintain that by dramatically reducing interaction costs, the Internet and other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
though, and you’ll find that Hamilton has been renewed by a marriage of technology and environmental sustainability. “Basically, the only thing we kept was the building’s exterior shell,” says Jason Carlson, project manager for contractor... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
United States, and Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's biggest forest products companies. The two longtime foes decided to join forces in 1994 to create a landmark agreement enabling both of them to manage... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
knowledge of how to get the product out there. Distributing refrigerated products is not an easy business. People could probably come pretty close to copying our re-cipes, but to actually do the marketing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), which has... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
access to cosmetics and other products that would help them perk up their day, perk their looks. “Most recently now, I oversee operations for Airbnb. And to me, this is one of the most mission-driven companies in the world today, where we... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable consumers—children—introducing the first child-resistant... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967) has always been curious about technology and how things worked. However, while earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at MIT, he realized he didn’t have an affinity for View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
reflects Harvard Business School's tradition of providing transformational educational experiences for managers and leaders at every level of an enterprise." HBSi aims to be the world's premier source for custom executive education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Home Entertainment, the network’s DVD and digital distribution division. “The most exciting thing about this area is waking up and knowing that whatever you thought was true yesterday is not true today.” In April the company, after some deliberation, launched HBO Now,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Teaching is in his DNA
for the next five years. He told McArthur that he wanted to study the intersection of science and technology management with the problems of productivity and competitiveness that were then plaguing the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
full courses Acting in Time: Leadership and Management in the Face of Large-Scale Risks is a leadership capstone course designed for students who, over the course of their careers, will lead an organization that faces large-scale risks.... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
seemingly rare flower with a very real role in getting new ventures off the ground, reinventing existing businesses, and creating productive work environments. In an Unjust World, A Champion for Economic Justice He’s got a superhero’s... View Details