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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni and their spouses who are moving into a new career phase). This committee is looking at possible additions to these programs and how best to manage them given existing faculty and space resources. It is particularly interested in... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
instance, ecommerce companies have had to develop systems that allow buyers to pay cash on delivery so they can address trust issues and serve unbanked populations. But more generally, it also means that startups are being built for a... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
morning on October 12, 2020, a home security system captured a moment that would go viral on social media. [knocking] Bob Wilson: Paul? JH: Bob Wilson and his wife Mary had walked across the street to his colleague Paul Milgrom’s house to... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
solutions. Consider a carousel system that can be vertical or horizontal where products come to the picker, not vice versa. It could be combined with a pick-to-light system, where lights show which bins need to be pulled and how many... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
swimming, and it’s good for the body, brain, and nervous system to learn new patterns.” Tennis Player “Find time in your schedule to play someone weaker than you, someone at the same level as you, and someone stronger than you every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
families in a particular region or area. Part of our job then is to help students understand what these other lives are like, because they will manage not just workers who are global like our students but also many people who are truly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing director at Credit Suisse First... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
scribe started. Bob was really bad at keeping his laughter under control (he sat to my right, so I was flattered). 1981A’s Rick Johansen orchestrated a prank one day in the first semester (late 1979) on all the professors we had that day.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
candidates for this focus on complements. A new system of creating and sharing information is evolving, and it has many complementary parts. It is not enough to invent one part of the new system; you have to pay attention to all the parts... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
you is accurate. If you're getting a second opinion, start with a blank slate. Don't say what the diagnosis is that you've already been told. There's confirmation bias in a system that can lead to years of misdiagnosis like it did for my... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, HBS alumni helped the country's business community to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
different message. As he writes: “Even when adaptation appears to be the only viable option, we should do more than blindly accept—and eagerly adapt to—change. We should seek to understand why the change has been forced on us, how we might exert greater View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
greater incentive to participate and contribute. David and Jen’s other crucial decision was to cede control to MSK without condition and with only a rough blueprint for the next few years in place. The no-strings-attached arrangement... View Details