Professor Bill George - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

Managing Change

Narayandas (photo by Jimmy Ushkurnis) Narayandas (photo by Jimmy Ushkurnis) Das Narayandas, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, was named Senior Associate Dean for External Relations this fall, taking over for... View Details

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Today's Workplace, Emerging Leader Edition By Bill George (MBA 1966), Professor of Management Practice, Emeritus and Zach Clayton (MBA 2009) John Wiley & Sons In True North:... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)

door at the University of Toronto and told him I wanted to teach a class on entrepreneurship. He asked if I had ever taught before, or if I had a PhD. When I told him no, he asked why he should let me teach. I said, "Because it's going to be really good." HBS View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

Bill George, now a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. "Innovators need to be able to try things out, fail, correct them, and then bring them back into the organization."... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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The Roundtables - Entrepreneurship

NeueHouse in Madison Square Park for customized discussions, a reception and dinner featuring a fireside chat between Professor Bill Sahlman and Brian Bedol founder of Bedrocket Media Ventures, Bluefin Labs,... View Details

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

assess public education reform needs, and assemble different aspects of the city’s recovery plan into a report to be submitted to President George W. Bush (MBA ’75). The trip inspired an ongoing effort that has sent some students back to... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Health, Social Assistance

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Club of South Florida. The gathering took place at the Four Seasons Palm Beach Resort and featured a breakfast reception and speaking program. The... View Details

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

work, in particular the relationship between investors and management. It was that dynamic that propelled him to HBS three years later. “HBS kicked my butt,” he recalls, recalling his experiences with professors Michael Porter, Jeffry... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

integrative valuation and negotiation classes were used with all 900 students in the first year Finance course in the MBA Program. Dwight Crane, the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

create more damage in a year environmentally, in monetary terms, than profit.” “The fact of the matter is that 450 of the 3,000 companies in our environmental data set create more damage in a year environmentally, in monetary terms, than profit.” In short, we can’t,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

29 Oct 2009
News

Focus on Short-Term Hurts Companies

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His... View Details

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Global - Global Activities 2020

Kominers, the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration, and senior researcher George Gonzalez. The case examines Zoom’s strengths and weaknesses, role in society, and potential to... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

international reach were regular features, along with articles by faculty members and administrators discussing the School's changing priorities. Anthony's genteel editorial style and his devotion to HBS is apparent in this excerpt from coverage of View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

New York tech firms and medical centers. Public Education An HBS team led by Professor Jan Rivkin has partnered with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on three reports... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

survey notes, more than half of HBS alumni launch a business. In this conversation, professors Tom Eisenmann and Bill Kerr discuss HBS’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which empowers students to create an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

April 2011
Case

Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)

By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred

Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Corporate Accountability; Emotions; Behavior; Leadership Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure

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