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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
thinking and the options that are in front of me. When I deal with employees, it helps me to seek out who's just saying that they're ready versus who's actually ready, how to really make sure that when people say, View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
disease threatened to become a pandemic. Travel restrictions were put in place, quarantine orders issued, and vaccine development fast-tracked. SARS sickened about 8,000 people and killed about 800 in 32 countries, but by mid-2003, the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
minutes a day in 2018, she says. Much of that is free content, from cat videos on YouTube to whatever the kids are doing on Snapchat. And while high-value, long-form streaming options are flooding the market, the upper-right quadrant in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
hacking in India, the founders of Zomato, IndiaMart, ShopClues, Paisabazaar, and a lot more. Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First by Ram Charan (MBA 1965), Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey HBR Press Typical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
batteries, the most expensive component of EVs. GM has already begun rolling out the Bolt, a hatchback that can travel 238 miles on a single charge and costs around $30,000—a combination of range and affordability that promises for the first time to make electric cars... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
issue? For the first six months, I got a lot of questions about my age; after that, I didn’t really get them anymore. Maybe that’s because I had aged so much! Of all the innovations you have introduced, which have been most embraced? I’ve View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
limited? Do you seek new avenues for expansion? Is the timing opportune to consider such a quest? Fenno includes a broad range of diversification options supported by numerous practical examples of companies of all sizes that have... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
options were woefully underdeveloped. Amira thought—correctly—that the region’s consumers, who were already active on platforms like Facebook and YouTube, would be quick to embrace online retailers. But BulkWhiz did have to convince... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
government regulators, who repeatedly threatened to put ARD out of business. The Securities & Exchange Commission, to cite one example, ruled that ARD officers could not hold stock options in client... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
and CEO of Best Buy and HBS senior lecturer Hubert Joly shares leadership principles that underpinned the remarkable resurgence of Best Buy, which he believes are at the heart of business: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
hope. So last December, speaking in a crowded, harshly lit room typical of government offices the world over, Cognetti put herself forward as one of 10 candidates to vie for a seat on the Scranton School Board. As part of her personal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
from mistakes we learned a long time ago not to make. Why would we now repeat the mistake of banking on a nuclear option that simply makes no economic sense? Michael Hogan (MBA ’88) Sunapee, NH Priorities Trump Prescriptions Your December... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
1980), serve on the board of directors of Olatec. OCTOBER 26 In January 2020, Meredith Oppenheim (MBA 2001) launched Vitality Society, an online community serving people “60 and better” that puts her 30-year dedication to older people to... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
plus. In terms of the modern framing of it, there’s a golden book that I love, by the author of the Black Swan. It’s called Antifragile. And if you think about the usual way that we go and deal with these setbacks in life, it’s fragile. Essentially, we View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
unanimity” emerged, says Garvin, namely, that bridging the knowing-doing gap at HBS means supplementing the curriculum in three areas: globalization, experiential learning, and leadership development. But how? “That’s the big question,” says Datar. “To View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
turned into "a runaway express train." "At least twice a week, after working all day, putting the kids to bed, and having dinner with my husband, I started working again at 9:30 or 10:00 p.m.," Sandford reports. "I was exhausted."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
start my career at the level of a clerical worker. HBS had given me confidence, so I found another opportunity and left. Nobody will provide opportunities to women unless they initiate the move. Just sitting and waiting for changes to come is not an View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
be cutting-edge, but we’re testing some options now.” Houston describes her job as “constantly pushing the ball forward,” a task that relies on the collaboration of a stellar team of building and landscape architects, technology experts,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details