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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of MBAs 15 years ago, I had the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
transforming IBM, talked about the key strategic decisions he made when he took the helm of the struggling company in 1993. Initially reluctant to take the top post, Gerstner, an outsider, determined that it was important to keep the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top venture... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Lafley is proud of the fiscal year that Procter & Gamble recently completed. It's his fourth year on the job as CEO, and P&G's sales topped $50 billion—the best results in the history of the company, which was founded in 1837. "I'm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
became the third-biggest manufacturer of toys in the United States, right behind longtime industry giants Mattel and Hasbro. The Bulletin recently spoke with three alumni who work for toy companies that develop products considered to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a tight circle at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
write my to-do lists is very different, specifically tailored to what science says is the right way to write a list. You put your stretch goal—your biggest aspiration—at the top of the page. Under that, you... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
hockey. One of his Frozen Assets teammates, who met him on the ice some 50 years ago, says McNerney remains the player who makes other people better. He sets them up for a shot and passes the puck at the right moment—sacrificing his own... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but none of them on instructions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
shifting in the streaming era. The Remix Before release Old Model: Find the right label New model: Find the right platform If you’re an independent artist, music distribution platforms like TuneCore and CD... View Details
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
into Japan's most famous, prestigious, and powerful collection of companies (or keiretsu), offering a wide array of products and services, but in the early nineties, Mitsubishi Corporation, the general trading company within that group, reached the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
times give solid companies and strong managers the chance to seize market share. Fox explains how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good and recently fired talent, increase investments in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
should it start: at the grassroots with the student groups with which they are familiar, but which often have small budgets, or at the top with the university administration, where the company will face more bureaucratic hurdles but... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
inversion of Before the 1950s, the majority of graduates who became teachers were in the top quartile of their college classes. And today, we're seeing that the majority are in the bottom half and sometimes even in the bottom quartile of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
Nagano in 1998, it was the first time that women’s hockey was offered as an Olympic sport. There’s nothing like hearing the national anthem and being on top of the podium with your teammates. That’s part of why I kept playing for so... View Details