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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
of origin or communicate virtually with other customers who share aspects of their DNA. “Genealogy is a technology business now,” observes Lorrie Norrington (MBA 1989), a board member at Ancestry.com. “The records go so far, but how do we... View Details
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Barney. “It’s basically my career, crystallized,” he observes wryly. The trophies, and the magazine covers nearby, tell a very different story from Kim’s earlier, modest self-assessment. With offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Action Plan: In Context
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
as one observer puts it — while leaders are the charismatic, big-picture visionaries, the ones who change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
presidency in 1995, Zobel, still in his mid-30s, became president and CEO. In 2006 he was appointed chairman, retaining the role of CEO while his brother Fernando became president and COO. "My father placed a lot of trust in us," observes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
companies. A self-described latchkey kid raised in rural Ohio by a single parent, Lambert says her ascent was not an obvious trajectory. “There aren’t many mentors for women or people of color in technology or venture capital,” observes... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
world. Her dream is to lead a global organization -- like Save the Children -- that "makes an impact on people all over the world." There is no substitute, she says, for the satisfaction of helping others. "The capacity that people have that goes unseen continues to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
example, the company knows how many of them they’ve sold in the past, how many views the item received before it sold, and at what price. The systems actually drive the process and get smarter with each iteration, although humans are around to “fix on an ad-hoc basis,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in strange ways,” observes Ogunlesi, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
employment in the United States without dipping into the twelve-month employment limit of most student visas. “I learned so much about the School and how much integrity and honesty there is in everyone here,” she observes of the process.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
groups in India, it’s this last detail that is the sweetest: “I observed these young girls, on the periphery of the group, seeing women who are coming together to support each other. Women who are running businesses, women who are saving,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Mind Your Manners
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) As a newcomer to the Global A-list, some observers say China has a few things to learn about proper comportment in Western social settings. Etiquette is one of them, declares Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012), a... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
says—as important as that is. Beyond that, by examining companies that are tackling these problems, great cases can help leaders devise workable solutions that they can replicate. “Good case writers are like clinicians,” Bower explains. They can View Details
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
of a market and then moves up. “His theory has very much shaped what I have chosen to do with the second part of my life,” observes Wolf, a former Goldman Sachs analyst. “Those that are given opportunity via education can transform their... View Details