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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
With WAC, the longest running of all the report-writing incarnations, the prototypical assignment featured formal and informal discussions of the case at hand, followed by each student’s own fevered analysis. Then came multiple handwritten drafts and hours of typing,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Extrusion Technology, however, Molded Dimensions has experienced a new level of competitive pressure from Asia, particularly China. “If the widget is the size of a softball or smaller, you can ship it from China for less than we can make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
posting. Green’s fiscal management and office leadership in Cairo received high marks, but being an OSS administrator was not enough; within six months, he was campaigning for a spot in Special Operations. In January 1944, Green... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
McCarthy, an Officer Engineer on the USS Ohio, leads a department of 70 officers and sailors and is charged with the safe operations of a nuclear power plant and all pressure boundary systems on the submarine. She also serves as a mentor... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
organized support. Skilling and Lay failed to provide that support. Whatever the espoused intentions of Enron’s leaders, the organization’s commitment to the qualitative aspects of individual and group performance began to break down under View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The landowner's share of net oil production, taken in the form of crude oil rather than in cash. Slug Catcher: A metal vessel that separates liquids from natural gas. Snubber: The most dangerous job in the oil field. A worker who controls a View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
again, psychotic. This time, thinking I was the pope. Hanna: I wondered, that might have been a different experience, given that you were at a big Fortune 500 company. Before you were in a pretty high View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
term. “It is these shareholders who pushed companies to generate returns at levels that were not sustainable. They also made sure high returns were tied to management compensation. The pressure to produce... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way through View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
Baer and Magowan’s efforts to put together a bid to keep the team in San Francisco kicked into high gear. With financial promises from a stellar list of Northern California investors that included Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), Charles Schwab,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
and extracting the top ideas as they continue to build TAMO. By 12:43 p.m. the pace of the morning is catching up to them. The team is 43 minutes behind schedule; energy and blood sugar levels are crashing. Foalea is hungry—four times in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we have in the West, Chinese... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
successfully in global markets while also supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. America is not more competitive if businesses succeed by paying lower wages. Actually, the need to cut wages reflects a lack of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
instant hits. Last summer, Nicotrol became the first of these products to receive over-the-counter approval. De Weese left Cygnus in 1992 to head up M6 Pharmaceuticals, a New Yorkbased vaccine and antibiotics company. In 1995, he launched Hemox Therapeutics, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
resilience of childhood. The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay Conger (DBA 1985) and Allan Church HBR Press Being seen as a high-potential leader is essential to reaching your... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
commercial operation." "Big budget museums don't have a lot of financial leeway," adds HBS professor William J. Poorvu, treasurer and trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who has written a case about this quirky Boston treasure. Poorvu notes that the View Details