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- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
accepted a position as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. It was at Goldman that her interests began to coalesce. “I finally realized the power of business to change the world,” says Coupounas. “Goldman Sachs, as a partnership at the time, lived by a set of deeply... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
allowed his cousins to pause, rewind, and absorb the material at their own pace. Before long, he was hearing from complete strangers that the videos had made a real difference in their ability to master material they’d struggled with previously. Another View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
grown into the company's second biggest-selling product. But before Vasella could accomplish any of this, he had to reconcile the diverse cultures of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. His first task was to define the new company's mission, values, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
markets differed, but the belief in local autonomy and decentralized decision-making became a core value within the company .Meanwhile, the largest American consumer products company remained cautious about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
access that opportunity: (1) Develop a small set of critical core values that truly define your culture. (2) Hire and retain only people who clearly and strongly exemplify those values. That will make it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
School has done a great job maintaining its core values over the years. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen? Certainly, the mix of our student body is quite different; you can see it when you... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
other unglamorous things we have to do just right every day, that's hard to duplicate." After more than a decade of doing the right things every day, Shafir is still a very hands-on entrepreneur. With the company's core bulk shipment... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
entity. And my lesson was the value of mentors. If someone is really going to give you an opportunity, take it seriously, and give it your all. Lloyd Berutti, and I graduated in 1977. My first job getting out of business school was I went... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
ground where they can work together. “In a truly multicultural corporate environment, people strive to strike a balance between their own cultural core and being open to other value systems, communication... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
than ever. The Bulletin spoke to a sampling of alumni to get a view from the factory floor of how they plan to meet the challenges ahead. While the companies vary in size and make a diverse range of products, these owners, chairmen, and CEOs present a snapshot of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
itself will push innovation. Relevant to mobile payments. No more passing hotdogs up the row at Fenway and then sending a few dollars back down the row. You know what I mean? Angela: Yeah. Dan: But also there's value in that technology... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
making boards smaller, ensuring their independence, maintaining three core committees, and providing leadership that reinforces the board’s independence and effectiveness. Within this general framework, they suggest numerous ways that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this particular exercise has produced a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
and a well-crafted plan to capitalize on it, iTrust slowly assembled a core management team during its inaugural year and, with relief, graduated from its free, but shabby, space to a modern office complex in Gurgaon, a booming suburb... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
The HBS endowment consists of 1,000+ funds established over more than a century. These funds play a key role in sustaining the School’s core priorities. The $3.5 billion HBS endowment represents 9 percent of Harvard’s total $37 billion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management paradigms. For a core group of HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
businesses. Now we’re in this moment where people recognize that CSR isn’t enough. How do we help companies do more than just meet the bare minimum set of responsibilities, and actually go beyond that to deliver value to society as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
more vigorously to assert who they are socially, psychically, and culturally,” remarks Koehn. “As a value proposition, luxury goods are very sensitive to timing and ego.” Adaptation, however, is a risky business. “You can’t rely on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope teach us about risk management? How does Mel Brooks’s The Producers illustrate the problem of corporate governance? And what’s the real lesson to be gleaned on value creation from the Bible’s Parable of... View Details