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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
to balance my life,” he states. “I’ve reallocated, just as you would an investment portfolio.” Snoey’s most recent position was at Harley-Davidson, where he was president and COO of the company’s Transportation Vehicles Division and a View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
I’m the CEO of Invest Macedonia, the primary institution in the country responsible for attracting foreign investments. The prime minister asked me to take the job, and I report directly to him. It’s the highest nonpolitical position in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrating its control in the hands of a single member of the firm, the three founders agreed to create a series of overlapping funds. Each general partner could then take responsibility for running one of them, with input from his... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
The responsibility that comes with such power is something that Cummings will be forced to consider with his biggest investment in Detroit to date: the Fisher Building. (No relation to Max Fisher.) In New Center, three miles northwest on... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
life from graduating in 2009 has been profound. My kids literally wouldn't exist if it weren't for the financial crisis. My biggest piece of advice, aside from power through, is to remember that what you see on social media is nobody's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
oriented.” As was so often true of Levitt’s work, “Marketing Myopia” went well beyond the topic at hand, touching on big-picture concerns. A company’s chief executive, he argued, is responsible for setting an organization’s compass. “This... View Details
- 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
environment, be that infrastructure, bureaucracy, or lack of established benchmarks in India’s corporate environment.” Less regulation clearly has unleashed market potential. Bharti, for example, has aggressively pursued the estimated 250... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
algorithmic perspective, really trying to put more women in those role-- women and people of non-Caucasian background in those roles. Morrell: So it didn't necessarily start out with that social mission or outcome-- Polli: No. Morrell:... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
faculty response was by John Russell, our Ops professor, who walked in, cold-called five of our sectionmates (which he had never done before), wrote “bingo” on the blackboard, and asked who had the pot. The guy with the pot sheepishly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
themselves when you least expect them. What you have to be willing to do is take the risk.” In 1983, Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi (JD/MBA 1979) was working as a corporate lawyer when First Boston asked the Nigerian native to provide consulting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
say, thematic concepts: foundations of arithmetic, critical thinking, and reading. Employers are very good at teaching discrete skills that you need for this particular role. You want a workforce that has both. So getting clear on when we say we're both going to be... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and corporate sponsors; naming rights; 29,500 season tickets (including 15,000 “charter seats”); and the loans it would take to cover the price tag for a $357 million ballpark. “Larry is the nicest person in the world, but he is also a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches, allowing us to be more View Details