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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Alumni Career Services Update
part of the HBS Alumni Advisory Network Contact with the worldwide network of some one hundred HBS alumni clubs Baker Library's Career Resources Center's individualized research assistance to alumni in the job market An upgraded work area... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
Trollope, chaired the Trollope Society and was a noted philanthropist in England as well as in America.) At age 99, he was working out with a personal trainer three times a week; at 105, he kept a Manhattan office and was an active investor. Famously generous to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
What have you learned about Japan? It’s a land of clarity and ambiguity. Think of a Japanese painting with a beautifully detailed willow branch against a landscape of fog. Contradictions and paradoxes abound. While it’s a very group-oriented society, it also prizes the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
responsibility is telling a story about his or her life, although perhaps unconsciously. The book is framed around the narratives of these individual leaders.” At 84, Zaleznik is wasting no time. “Believe it or not,” he says, “I already... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
employees to get it done than it is about my individual contribution.” But he cites the case method as most influential in his development as a businessperson. “The case method was essentially five laboratories daily in which to think... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
largest senior population in the history of the United States. And millions of boomer households are financially unprepared, one extended health crisis, job loss, or traumatic event from insolvency. As individuals facing this situation,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants to understand how their role encompasses all organizational disciplines; to learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; to perform a working assessment of their organizations; and to formulate solutions to their View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
Recently retired after eleven years as president of the University of North Carolina, C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), views his accomplishments as those of "an average person who simply tried to be a part of North Carolina's future." Admirers, however, see an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
beings and also believe in a pure libertarian philosophy," he admitted. "It turns out that if we give individuals complete freedom of choice, they won't necessarily end up in the place in which they would judge they're best off." View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
environment requires understanding three key management factors: the interactive nature of strategy, organizational design, and individual leadership. Today's managers need to harness technological advances; manage and lead a dispersed,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
individuals and institutions with career transitions was far more rewarding and energizing than what I used to do, so I started my own firm." Loughran is quick to emphasize the role played by club chairman Bruce F. Avery (MBA '69), EVP... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing decisions from third parties to View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
potential workers—such as veterans, caregivers, immigrants, and individuals with mental or physical health issues—who might otherwise be overlooked. How AI Accelerated a COVID-19 Vaccine Karim Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
that trigger a director's resignation. Section 8 of the Clayton Act, for example, prohibits a person from serving as a director or officer of competitors (to avoid possible antitrust complications). A new job may preempt time and attention to such a degree that an... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
used traditional methods of inquiry - mathematical theory or statistical analysis, for instance - while others employed interviews, primary company materials, surveys, and close examination of the trading of individual securities. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
otherwise have access to people of color who are professionals and who are successful in their careers. The individual attention has been a big factor." Those relationships have been as powerful for the HBSAAA volunteers as they have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
1989I) won a silver medal in the modern pentathlon team competition, and competed in the modern pentathlon individual competition, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. More information here. Mark Fusco (MBA 1990D) played on the US men’s ice... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
was acceptable although individual parts of that agreement may be difficult for the decision-maker. That's different than saying everybody is 100% on every part of the agreement, which would be wonderful if it could happen, but that's not... View Details