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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
of DaVita William W. George, Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 410-065 Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine-learning algorithms to evaluate the abilities of job seekers and provide feedback by measuring not only skills and knowledge, but also personality and behavior traits. Since its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Over the course of the semester, several high-profile guest speakers, such as renowned CEOs and CFOs, short sellers, hedge fund managers, activist investors, and research analysts will share their experiences with students. To deepen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the global component of the new Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course comes in. A yearlong required course, FIELD is designed to hone first-year students’ skills in leadership, global understanding, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
from disparate backgrounds.” During his final year at HBS, he heard a talk by WWF president and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA ’88). “In Ghana,” says Murphy, “I had come to the conclusion that sustainable business development was key, and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Business School Exercise 409-129 This exercise is designed to help students and professionals map their professional networks and identify areas of strength and weakness in their networks. "Network" refers to the set of relationships that is critical to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
extraordinarily demanding group of fellow students and faculty. Developing the skills to listen carefully, think analytically, and communicate clearly is a requirement of leadership." CHARLES WAITE University of Connecticut, 1957 B.S.,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
in student, staff, and faculty lives. It provides opportunities to go deeper. It can help launch your startup. In particular, the Social Enterprise Initiative is the nexus of activity in thinking about how to apply business skills to have... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there. And instead of looking for blame... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the directors who become the creative leaders and I become the support, the right hand so to speak. So in the case of Lego, we put it all together. And we cast it with my directors Lord and Miller, and then they became the CEOs of the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group, one of America's largest mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
skilled workers, and getting distribution for Boumi products in major markets such as Europe and the United States. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112029-PDF-ENG Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity Joseph B.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
empathy, particularly for their employees. And I would say the toughest one to have is courage. Now Chad has to have courage, but I've seen a lot of CEOs that have no courage and their companies don't fare well over time. Now, the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
GROVE Born in Hungary in 1936, András István Gróf survived Nazi and Communist regimes before fleeing to the United States at the age of twenty. In 1997, as chairman and CEO of Intel, Andrew Stephen Grove was named Time magazine’s Man of... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
volunteer community health worker (CHW) force into salaried health workers of the MoH. Given the high level of personal commitment and dedication combined with the proper education and skill needed to be an effective community health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced when the borrowing firm is family-owned and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
evidence that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who exhibit little skill in evaluating the firm itself, other firms within the firm's industry, or even other firms in general. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne