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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
predominantly male working environments of the factory floor and management offices, as well as her family challenges in a dual-career household. At the end of each chapter are “Pearls from Pat,” which reinforce the effective View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Management. After completing his doctorate, Serafeim accepted a teaching position at HBS, one of eight newcomers to join the faculty. Serafeim, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit, teaches the first-year course... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
programs feature outstanding HBS faculty teaching the latest in business strategy and management - I encourage all of you to participate. For a listing of upcoming programs and contact information for the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
part of a terrific management strategy book. The lesson is to never prejudge a book! —Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller, is an immersive, literary, emotional, and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
April of that year to reach $20 billion in annualized revenue from the commercial cloud business by fiscal 2018, a goal they passed in the first quarter. It was a “look over here” move that took investors’ eyes off the waning PC business. The piece goes on to discuss... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
success. So You Want to Be a CEO: The Path from Middle Management to the Top Job by Thomas F. Faught Jr. (MBA 1953) (Fortis Publishing) Based on over 40 years of global management experience, including more... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
of a product you know will be controversial? Resolving such dilemmas often requires more than simply following the injunction to "do the right thing," says HBS professor Joseph Badaracco in Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan Selling China by Yasheng Huang What Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business School Press) A recent study by the Project View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
fund would help restart the hard-hit New Orleans business community. Several faculty also made the trip to New Orleans, including Professor Herman (“Dutch”) Leonard, whose work on crisis management led him to study businesses that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
to General George S. Patton. Stillman is professor emeritus of management at the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, where he taught from 1967 until 1982. He has written a total of eighteen books, a number of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
chaos of the world.” (PD-1923) (PD-1923) Elizabeth Bennet: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is a master at risk management in questions of 19th-century matrimony, Desai says. Her decision at the end of the novel to marry the man she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
Age discrimination is a serious concern among executives who contemplate career moves after age 50. In one recent survey, nearly three out of four managers with an average age of 50 said they believed age would be a barrier in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
That’s it. That’s the secret.” Morriss is the executive founder of The Leadership Consortium; Frei, the consortium's co-founder, served as senior vice president of leadership and strategy at Uber. They draw from their work with companies... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Feb 2022
- News
Sustaining vs. Disruptive Innovation: What's the Difference?
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
developing, owning, and managing properties to offer fascinating perspectives on real-estate ventures - both successful and ill-conceived. Using a format he has shaped during thirty years of teaching at HBS, Poorvu focuses on four key... View Details