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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the big ahas was discovering that the drop in performance we observed after stars transitioned from one firm to another was applicable only to people named Boris. Not Barbara. Basically, it's a story of institutional barriers. If you're a... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
constructive dialogue between environmentalists and the rest of society. His own career path could have been a case study for the book. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tercek spent 21 years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In 2005, he began his... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
admit that her leadership and organizational skills have helped the nonprofit's various constituencies work toward the common goal of increasing economic self-sufficiency and ending poverty. The exchange tells a lot about Marshall. A... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
University. Carl S. Sloane Carl Sloane (MBA '60), the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, has a strong interest in the leadership of organizations undergoing significant change. The cofounder of Temple,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
African Managerial Leadership Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS From Wildlife to Winetasting READ MORE Mandela in Triumph at Harvard New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
of the Organizational Behavior unit and the HBS Leadership Initiative, believes that the process of becoming a manager requires both a significant psychological transition and a considerable amount of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
important? “Almost 4 million American military veterans served in the post-9/11 era, and many of them have successfully transitioned into school or the labor force. However, a 2011 Pew Research Center study showed that 44 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
about real change. Is this change happening, and if so, where are we on the transition timeline? System problems require a systemic solution. You need what the great HBS professor Al Chandler called “the visible hand of managerial... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
officials and transit advocates. Shortsleeve said his goal is to balance the agency’s books for the first time in 15 years, even if that means taking on sacred cows. He said any savings will be reinvested in the system to make it run more... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
into these outliers began in the late 2000s, after teaching the Malden Mills case in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Most in the class believed Feuerstein had made a grave mistake; the decision had cost... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
like push email with its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave them a first-mover advantage, but as technology improved and data capabilities on wireless voice networks evolved rapidly and took off, the advantage turned to a burden with BlackBerry unable to View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
company in 2006 that involves letting go 5,000 employees and managing the transition to a more diversified product line based on the company’s proprietary technologies. In one instance, Fuji manufactures protective film for flat panel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
will continue in that role along with her new leadership position at External Relations. “This is an exciting time to be involved in External Relations at HBS,” Rapier notes. “The School is poised to move forward on a number of fronts to... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
system and possible solutions. FACULTY Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm Harvard Business School faculty members share their expectations for a Biden presidency and offer advice to the commander in chief as he takes on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
leadership and entrepreneurship, this guide covers basic concepts and pertinent issues for leaders at all levels. Two easy-to-follow models are applicable to all types of organizations. The Opportunity Model shows exactly how to identify... View Details