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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
of editor in 1955, around the time Dean David retired and was replaced by Dean Stanley F. Teele. Fenn's style favored bold headlines, dramatic photography, and lively alumni profiles. He was not afraid to tackle controversial topics. An... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after World... View Details
- Career Coach
Eileen Stephan
Eileen offers over 20 years of professional experience in recruiting, career management and career coaching in both the corporate and academic worlds. Her most recent position as Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management for Citigroup followed roles as... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn of the digital revolution, and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
about the gap between ideology and practice and the legitimacy problems that spring from that gap. So when I retired from active teaching it seemed like a good idea to write a book combining these two interests, drawing attention to the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organizations) as a corrective to this trend. We are concerned that by not attending to the impact of leadership on meaning, we miss a potential opportunity. In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a retired AT&T executive who became a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
Graduate and a retired Army Experimental Test Pilot, so I grew up on military bases moving from one side of the US to the other. I loved the idea of helping others and doing something bigger than I could imagine in service to my country.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case describes how boards and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
CEO of Swatch Group, in early 2000 Biver began to sense that he might not receive the top position when Hayek retired. At the end of the case, Biver must decide whether he should leave the Swatch Group and retire himself, or possibly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual financial secretary before his... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
aware of it, the more likely it is they can talk about it openly and can make efforts to overcome it,” she says. In 1999, The Diana Project, cofounded by retired MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Myra Hart to study women... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
Recruit, they are eligible for a $75,000 retirement bonus. Once an employee turns 41, the bonus is increased to $150,000. This is to ensure that employees who have other dreams are able to pursue them, while Recruit only retains employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
employers with sicker labor forces are likely to be lower than those of the average retired Medicare enrollee. Combining HRAs with the Public Option will also increase competition in the bloated U.S. health care system. Faced with... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled... View Details