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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they have the right to be great. I wouldn’t say we’re a great company. I’d say we’re getting close.” Race of one: “I time every run I do, because I’m competing with myself and it matters. I refuse to accept that I’m slower than I was when... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Chimneys (named for the Bermuda address of an old fraternity brother and the number of chimneys on Clay’s restored farmhouse). By 1978 he had twenty broodmares; in 1984 he launched his stallion business. “I enjoy the spectacle of animals and people View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
can win this time. It was really meaningful to us to take home one of the prizes this year, especially in the alumni competition, which is even more competitive.” Shah says competing in the NVC has yielded invaluable feedback and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
No Reason to Go Nuclear While I applaud the general thrust of Byron Wien’s “My Two Cents” contribution in the December issue, he wandered beyond his competency with the following statement: “We will need to generate most of our... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
which means that students need a way to finish that learning, which means that you need more personalization. It means that people are starting to think more about mastery learning and competency versus just sitting in a chair. JH: In a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
experience with Bob, I got an email with the same article attached from about 10 different people at the company. It was about how people would rather have a boss who is really competent but kind of a jerk than one who's really... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
have shaken up incumbents and threatened the status quo. For disruptors to pose a threat to an industry, they have to successfully break the link in choosing, purchasing, or consuming a product or service. Upstarts do not try to compete... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
conditions that firms face; and the increased scale of activities fostered by global participation. The text examines how these phenomena create tensions and tradeoffs for executives concerning which product to offer around the world, which countries to View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
grateful just to get a job. I believe it is good to have experienced global fluctuations when you are running a business, because it makes you a smarter, more thoughtful executive. Sahlman: In general, I find that competent people can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you’re competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet and other communication technologies have radically increased the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
collegial. So there's mentoring going on. There are people who might compete during the day but have a beer at night and talk a little bit about their business or their music. It's also very fluid, so that it was not uncommon in New... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
bigotry and bias. And I think the reason for that, is because unfortunately business leaders are sort of looking around and seeing that leadership isn't going to come from anywhere else. We're in this really precarious moment where the basic View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and experience level would have in competing firms. It actually increased the number of contacts that the employer had inside those customers. The key personnel risk of a senior partner leaving and bringing their customers with them... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Although we were across the river that first year, in a separate environment, we were taught by HBS professors and churned out those cases just like any other B-School student. We got an equal education and were able to compete when we... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
won by about 10 lengths in the race that we competed against him in Florida. And he probably could have won by 25 lengths. And I was so impressed, because he's not a big, strapping horse. He's not a horse that you would think, wow, that... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective framework in which to transform healthcare systems. It helps leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Competing Against... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and measure yourself against accordingly. Learn quickly what your true "drivers" are—what really motivates and energizes you—and then pursue a career that is coherent with them. If you follow your passion with competence (heart) and... View Details