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01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

forum for networking and sharing best practices. Following in their footsteps, several clubs this year are organizing their first-ever nonprofit conferences, including those in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York. This past winter, the HBS Club of View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

February 2010
Case

Foxwoods: Turning Data into Insights in the Hospitality Industry

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah L. Soule

This case describes how an IT director identified an opportunity and implemented an innovative business solution designed to enable line managers and executives to convert data to information to insights. The case also details how the company partnered with an emerging... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Connecticut

November 1995 (Revised January 1998)
Case

Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (B)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone

As part of the restructuring effort underway at the Pratt & Whitney North Haven plant, Ed Northern and a group of Japanese consultants are transforming the manufacturing process from a batch process to a single-piece flow, and are organizing the machines and workers in... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Business Processes; Production; Machinery and Machining; Human Resources; Product; Connecticut

November 1995 (Revised January 1998)
Case

Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone

Pratt & Whitney is a leader in the development and manufacturing of gas turbine engines for commercial and military aircraft. Economic conditions for the airline and defense industries are forcing the airplane engine builders to restructure. Ed Northern, a new general... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Production; Opportunities; Economy; Aerospace Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Connecticut

15 Nov 2021
News

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

he nor his family could have afforded for him to go to the University of Connecticut and HBS without the GI Bill,” explains Bishop. “With his gift, he wanted to help keep HBS accessible for future Charlie Waites to attend and also wanted... View Details

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

Connecticut is nothing less than a capitulation to an emerging business reality. For GE, leafy Stamford was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

February 1993 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)

By: Linda A. Hill

After 10 years of running a small laboratory at Yale Medical School, Dr. R. Bernd Sterzel assumes leadership of a nephrology clinic in Nurnberg and Erlangen, Germany. In his ambitious efforts to transform the clinic into a leading academic research institution, he... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Industry; Germany; Connecticut

09 Jun 2011
News

The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group

variety of venues, from section cocktail parties and informal dances to HBS's Christmas Ball, Wellesley College (sometimes with the Wellesley Widows a cappella group), Connecticut College for Women, Radcliffe, Simmons, and Harvard Law... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

Charlotte New York Philadelphia Fundraising for local nonprofits or for scholarships to attend Executive Education’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program Austin Ottawa San Diego Washington, D.C. All-day alumni conferences Ottawa Puget Sound Panel... View Details

24 Mar 2021
News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

been too far away, otherwise.” Along with pandemic-related shifts, the Black Lives Matter movement inspired a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in the alumni club ranks and in projects and programming. The Community Partners programs of the HBS Club of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Dec 2011
News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

Charnovitz, George Washington University; Stacey M. Childress, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Mihir A. Desai, HBS; Daniel C. Esty, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Law School; Robin Greenwood, HBS;... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

study with University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Namho Kang; EDHEC Business School Research Associate and Affiliated Professor Gideon Ozik; and Boston College Professor Ronnie Sadka, chairperson of the finance department, Carroll... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

01 Oct 2000
News

Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

which matches consumer demand with sellers' excess inventory -- one of the Internet's big winners. The inspiration of former marketing consultant Jay Walker, Priceline opened for business a little over two years ago. Previously, in 1995, Brier had cofounded a View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

with a recruiter in an HBS corridor in 1969 led Hawes to a small Connecticut company that focused on insurance company mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he ventured out on his own and founded Insurance Investment Associates, which soon... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Schwartz (MBA 1978) MissionPoint Capital Partners Norwalk, Connecticut Clean energy, energy efficiency, and environmental private equity Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) The Artemis Project San Francisco, California Consulting practice dedicated... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

08 Mar 2013
News

The Accidental Innovator

books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

tick — putting structure to chaos and solving problems from big to small.” Before discovering what truly excited him, Wu was on a more traditional course. After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Connecticut in... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2012
News

The Accidental Innovator

Khan Academy? I know this sounds dorky, but anyone who wants to better understand my long-term thinking and motivation for Khan Academy should read a couple of my favorite books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Current VBHCD project sites include: The Alfred Hospital Baylor Heart & Vascular Hospital Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Children’s Hospital Brigham & Women’s Hospital Cedars-Sinai Chicago Prostate Center Children's Hospital Colorado Cleveland Clinic View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Applegate, Pivot for Equity: Lessons from Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, based on her 2020 case, “Pivotal Ventures: Bending the Curve on Women’s Power and Influence.” The HBS Club of Connecticut (HBSCT), together with the HBS Club of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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