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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Elton Mayo (ca. 1946): Supervision attuned to a worker’s psychological needs rather than based on fear or coercion would produce, Mayo believed, “a major revolution in industrial method” and “an almost incredible human advance.” Fritz J. Roethlisberger (ca. 1958):... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental effects and advises against this now-common tactic for workforce... View Details
- 22 Nov 2018
- News
WhatsApp Names New India Head to Grow its Biggest Market
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
Tech Companies Struggle to Get World on Internet
- 28 Mar 2014
- News
Facebook's Big Bet on Virtual Reality
- 04 Nov 2013
- News
Android Founder Rich Miner Headlines HBS Cyberposium
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a financial services operation to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Mexico Since 1980 by Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his co-authors address two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico’s current economic and political... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
national and international telecommunications structure. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart creates a dystopian future for the United States as a setting for an unrequited love. I enjoyed his debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Emmons, the "deregulatory" Telecommunications Act of 1996 enhances the powers and responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission in a number of key areas, while removing government restrictions in others. "From a managerial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
BEILHARZ: "I no longer feel like one of those pet animals on a wheel." On a rare break from running her new ecotourism business in the wilds of Texas Hill Country, Amy Beilharz (MBA ’84) reflects on the life she and her husband, David, have built since leaving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
The MBA Program recently released statistics on its newest recruits — the Class of 2002 — as well as job placement information on graduates of the Class of 2000. An analysis of the incoming Class of 2002 reveals the growing diversity of the MBA Program, with a one... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
The conventional wisdom is that Asian businesspeople tend to avoid confrontation and take only calculated risks. Edwin Yu is clearly breaking that mold. Last April he came out on top in the first boardroom proxy fight in South Korean history, winning control of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sending a Message
In March, bankers, lobbyists, lawyers, and other messaging-intensive professionals heaved a collective sigh of relief and kept on thumbin’ like nobody’s business. Thanks to $612.5 million shelled out by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) over a patent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Cable Gal
Catherine Eubanks McCollough Catherine Eubanks McCollough (MBA '91) was traveling more than one hundred thousand miles a year as an executive for Scientific-Atlanta when her young son asked her if she and the woman who worked as his full-time nanny could trade places.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service. The company purchases... View Details
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