Alumni Achievement Award - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

not turn the tide. In 1968, the same year he was selected as the inaugural recipient of HBS’s newly established Alumni Achievement Award, McNamara left the Pentagon. He chose not to make public his... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

natural resources of a similar kind - if, say, the money from tree harvesting were used to plant more trees. It's very difficult to achieve consensus on these issues." Richard H.K. Vietor, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

million sale to Florida investors and impending departure from San Francisco. “That’s my ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ headline,” declares Baer, for whom keeping the Giants in San Francisco is one of the remarkable business accomplishments he View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

people could get by on the ruby and diamond-laden necklace, earrings, and ring pictured on the back cover’s advertisement. Robin Alper (MBA ’94) Los Angeles, CA HBS “Mamsy-Pansies” I much enjoyed “Inside Intel: The Art of Andy Grove” (December issue) and thought View Details

21 Mar 2025
News

What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details

Keywords: Finance

04 Jun 2025
News

Slice of Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Get Creative

company. To build a culture of agility, creativity, and innovation, Gillette developed an innovation fair in which every unit could show off its most promising new concepts. I was privileged to judge the first one with the then CEO, where we gave an View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

Mitsotakis was awarded the prestigious Alexis de Tocqueville and Hoopes Prizes for the analysis, which opens with a Tocqueville quote and includes a chapter about populism, both of which ring with relevance to this day. After grappling... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 May 2022
News

Lesson Plans

Khan Academy across 190 countries and 50 languages. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Khan about how the nonprofit... View Details

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals to make systematic mistakes in their selection decisions, favoring alumni from academic institutions with... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

reward than spending $x/n in different stores. One approach to achieve this convexity in rewards is to create loyalty systems that are tiered. It is often argued that tiered rewards, such as those offered by airlines, hotels, casinos, and... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

MBA Program chair, considers the contributions of international students essential if the MBA Program is to achieve its mission of developing outstanding business leaders who contribute to the well-being of society. "International... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

faculty. Just two years into his HBS career, Light won the 1972 Excellence in Teaching award for his work in the first-year MBA course on Managerial Economics, which, he points out, drew on the faculty’s research in decision theory. In... View Details

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

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

Paine: The book had its origins in the preparations for celebrating the Centennial of HBS in 2008. The School was founded because important Harvard alumni discussed with President Eliot their observation that a new class of executives who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

outsourcing selected components to achieve both reduced cost and enhanced innovation benefits. Given typical inter-dependence between innovation at the system and component levels, an important challenge for the system firm is to align... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

use in making the decision, how to process subcontractor bids, and how to award contracts. Many of the issues can be extended from construction into any bidding situation and any industry with multiple subconsultants or vendors. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2017
News

The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Spring reunions, the Bulletin team asked returning alumni one simple question: What was the best business advice you’ve ever received? In this special edition of... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

James McNerney Jr.

cool place, I’m better than I used to be, and I’ve got a shot at growing and getting a bigger job.” That’s exciting. Personal growth is what I’m after. What did you take away from your time at HBS? The overall impression is probably similar to what other View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

materials, fair partnership, and health, the plan sought to transform the company's practices. By 2012, the program's aim was to ensure that M&S was carbon neutral and sent no waste to landfill. It also aimed to help customers and employees View Details