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07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

jobs." Luthra rebounded into other jobs, holding C-level positions at several multinationals. In 2001, 35 years after losing the IBM job, he took a gig as CEO of the broadband division at Enron India. Enron collapsed later that year, and along with his job, Luthra... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2001
News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

(MBA 1975), president of Women’s World Banking; Rena Clark (MBA 1990), chair and COO of QVS, Inc.; Judith R. Haberkorn (111th AMP), retired president of consumer sales and service at Verizon; Andrea Caren Silbert (MBA 1992), founder and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
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The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details

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11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

by US Airways. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-088 T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (A) T. Rowe Price’s mutual funds, separate accounts, institutional investors, and View Details

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/214006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-022 Searching for a Retirement Plan No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

His platoon also participated in the operation to rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Taylor’s war record strikes an emotional chord with many conservative voters and veterans. “This guy is a true patriot,” says Nelson Modrall, a retired Army... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

markets down. Instability in other parts of the world, such as a problematic breakup of the eurozone, could be another. With so many boomers retiring in the next few years, that is something else to worry about. The Dow, which was created... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

now suggested that "Carolyn should retire into her kitchen." Faced with office infighting and increasing clashes between the markedly different Western and Chinese styles of management, Shih needed Liu to manage the increasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

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

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

be interesting to see how much their balance sheets have swelled when they start reporting their financial results. Let’s talk about the medical workforce, where we’ve seen medical students being called up early and doctors coming out of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved nearly enough to retire. You want... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

A few years after he retired as Dean we hosted a breakfast for him in New York City. It was probably 1997. He told a story about supporting a friend in need by traveling via car nearly eight hours on a Friday night to see him. The story... View Details

Keywords: Dean

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

market's record-setting rampage, the industry's asset growth has been driven by baby-boomers using mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

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

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