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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaders must be strategists first
Cynthia Montgomery believes strategy should be a habit of mind, not a document; a continuous process, not a destination. Leaders need to use strategy as a dynamic tool for guiding the development of a business over time. “It takes courage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
Houston real estate investment firm Rowland Taylor. Pathway’s perpetual trust, set up by Taylor, has already funded more than 250 family loans. With the support of fellow OPM alumni and a few key HBS staff and faculty members, including... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
by the stories she sees at the grassroots level. At a recent visit to Ariel Community Academy, a magnet school in Chicago, she watched kindergarteners learn principles of trading and fifth graders doing analyses of companies. "They were... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Grads Are the Most
Marion Sandler (HRPBA '53), General Motors' Cynthia Trudell (62nd PMD), and eBay's Meg Whitman (MBA '79). Whitman also figured in Business Week's "e.biz 25: The Most Influential People in Electronic Business" (September 27, 1999), where... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
Last Look - March 2011
class is being taught by General Mills.” David Krieger (MBA ’00) and Beth Ferguson (MBA ’01) agreed. Beth provided details: “These chorus women were the troops to General Mills (Andrew Vogel)Â as he sang ‘I am the very model of a modern... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
use their best elements in a hybrid “third way.” He demonstrates how the tools and principles of organizational economics can be used to build an innovation infrastructure with the right incentives and time horizons for investments. The Strategist: Be the Leader Your... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
orphanage, Andrew would smile shyly at us, as if asking ‘What about me?’ I don’t know what happened to him, but chances are he didn’t get adopted.” The unfairness of the situation prompted Taylor to action. He and his wife founded Pathways for Little Feet, a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
attendees reflected on the past and offered an action plan for the future, and the premiere screening of the documentary A Woman's Place, a project led by Professor Cynthia Montgomery that featured alumnae... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
corpora for analysis, literature searching, fact checking and background information. Cynthia Churchwell Manager, Public Services, Contemporary Collections Curriculum & Learning Services cchurchwell@hbs.edu... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean
late August, this year's recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, the School's highest honor, gathered on campus. They were presented to first-year students by Dean Nitin Nohria at a special event in Burden Hall that included a panel... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
it's Professor Michael E. Porter's seminal work on the competitive advantage of nations or Professor Cynthia A. Montgomery's recent book on corporate strategy, HBS C&S faculty are a leading voice in the strategic management arena. Most of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
style. Paul Marshall will address the issues of stimulating growth in companies that have been up and running for a while, because our participants are, by and large, running very large corporations or they are entrepreneurs who started a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- Web
From Connections to Seats: The Journey of Diverse Board Candidates - Blog: RGE Report
members. Because LGBTQ+ executives are underrepresented on boards, they are less likely to know people in a position to connect them to board seats, Houdart pointed out. “If you vacation in Provincetown rather than Martha’s Vineyard, you are less likely to meet someone... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea." Koehn's opening presentation... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president, Jackson Street Partners, San Francisco, California A well-known saying attributed to Confucius identifies the essence of life's journey: By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, View Details
- Web
Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
according to recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles’ “Board Monitor US 2023.” However, that progress has slowed in recent years and has accrued mostly to the benefit of white women. The proportion of Black directors has nearly doubled since 2015, to 17 percent in 2022. A... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
in a bi-weekly newsletter put out by the library. I was able to quickly show him a lot of additional content. We worked together compiling a long list of information and he emailed shortly after to say thanks and how happy he was with all... View Details