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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Hill, who expects the case to be taught in Marketing and Organizational Behavior courses as well as in design schools. “Most of our change-management cases focus on a CEO or senior leader, not a middle manager, and few consider how to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
midwestern middle class for generations. Manufacturing jobs paid for college educations, including mine.” He called on the private sector to work with government — “a catalyst for leadership and change” — to set goals for productivity,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working middle class in the already developed world—that’s where you see the revolt. Given the importance of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
access to financing for veterans, accelerated suburban development and helped make the American dream of home ownership a reality for the middle class. What happened to turn that dream into such a nightmare? Not only in America but also... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Why were 253 people from all walks of life and parts of the globe pursuing academic work in teams in the Shad Hall fitness center in the middle of January? They were members of the HBS Class of 1997 January cohort. Arriving in the midst... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
alumni and guests of the HBS Club of India enjoyed Professor Desai’s July 9 book talk in New Delhi, titled “How Finance Works.” His talk “helped de-mystify some of the most complex aspects of finance into more manageable pieces,” says... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
streamlining management and infrastructure at the corporate level. Finally, he held numerous meetings and discussions with small groups of middle managers about Fuji’s future... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
room of La Brasserie, a Capitol Hill institution for political power lunchers and Hollywood A-listers. Bradley was anticipating a celebration; instead, he was assaulted with a list of 20 complaints about his management style and requests... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Whitman, and James Wolfensohn to get a sense of their lives away from the corner office. James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) WOLFENSOHN James Wolfensohn’s achievements in business, public policy, philanthropy, and the arts include ten years as president of the World Bank, a key... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Anheuser-Busch—formerly the home of America’s most popular brewery—watched as the company unraveled at the hands of globe-trotting financiers and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once students reached View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
collection, a unique research and teaching resource that comprises more than 140 videos of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant... 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