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- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
above all: to thine own self be true. For instance, when I was a prime minister, I always had my mobile with me. And I never changed my number. And then you could see that people who would have called you, you know, reasonably five times... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Bulletin), perhaps it is time to proclaim the success of Dean Wallace B. Donham's "experiment" in keeping alumni in contact with each other and with HBS. Donham would have been pleased to know that the School's "barest start in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
answer, and you never really know for sure. Ultimately, you’ve got to make up your mind in an ambiguous setting and move forward. Students, of course, would prefer for you to tell them the correct answer at the end of class. I never did... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win by Chris Kuenne (MBA 1989) and John Danner (HBR Press) The most important factor shaping the success or failure of a new business is the personality of the builder―the founder or leader’s particular combination of beliefs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
more focus and intention to the organization’s future state. Over a two-hour strategy session with the McKinsey team and her regional directors in August, McKenna takes notes in a Moleskine notebook. (She prefers the ones lined with graph... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
do not have the time or money to travel physically, do it on your iPad. Don’t rely on any pension: it’s invested in Italian government bonds. Resign yourselves to working to age 70 and more. Look in Italian history for models to follow,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
different orientations and different timelines. HBS students tend to have a very long time horizon, because they’ve deferred a lot of gratification. The students in my Leadership and Happiness class are very interested in the following... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Another provides a secure portal for patients to make appointments, request prescriptions, and see their test results. Yet another helps doctors get their claims paid on time more easily—according to company research, providers see a 12... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
also helped lengthen and restore his tight, overworked muscles, and it became part of his workout regimen. During his time at YogaWorks, he is credited with boosting the company’s market position and launching its online platform, as well... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
long history in the European market, gaining iconic status in England in the 1970s and '80s. But now, on the verge of bankruptcy, the company was having a hard time making payroll. Seeing an opportunity, Cohen's firm bought it and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
solve a problem but in a very narrow way.” At the consultancy you were presented with one project at a time and laser-focused on how to solve it. But to sit next to the CEO? She’d be able to learn all the other parts of the company that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the right people. “Meanwhile, at HBS we were teaching what I called ‘neutron bomb’ cases,” he recalls. “Lots of numbers, no people.” There was more. Many finance cases at the time focused on pricing securities and pricing risk. “In... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
day. I spent a lot of time at the library because writing is so solitary and as an extrovert, the extended alone time was always hard for me. I prefer to be around other... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
an increased awareness of and preference for the brand immediately following the release and premiere of the film at both the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. “We believe this was the first View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
This technology is being widely used for the first time in this spring's Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers' Program. The Message and the Medium As the last yards of new fiber-optic cables are installed, updated... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig