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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
open mind. He had a great personality and was honest and honorable and in every sense a “good guy.” I am sure that he continued to have all of these characteristics as a faculty member. K. Martin Worthy (MBA 5/’43) St. Simons Island, GA... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
had invested in was struggling, Hawes's sense of obligation to his investors took him and his family to Tampa to work with the failing enterprise. "It took us a year and a half," he recalled with characteristic enthusiasm, "but we fixed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
“Campaigns are a lot like start-ups,” she says with her characteristic enthusiasm. “It’s a chance to apply my previous experience to a new realm and help shape our country’s future.” View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future priorities of his successor,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
my colleague Bill Sahlman calls the "secret sauce" of HBS. Our challenge, then, is to envision what the digital complement to this experience might be. How can we best leverage all the distinctive competences and characteristics that have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
change your mind. Or if you have something that really works, I’d like to learn about it. And if I like what you do, I’ll change the culture of the whole company. We evolve the company culture based on the new input. What are the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it examines the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
instrumental in setting up the Center. Sahlman has identified four characteristics that make the area unique: the rapid pace of change, a highly evolved infrastructure, a culture of entrepreneurship, and extraordinary efforts by and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
culture, where being physically tough, technically infallible, and emotionally detached were no longer the most highly valued qualities. Characteristics that gained importance included a willingness to ask questions, to listen, to admit... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
organizational properties of each team, measuring factors such as leadership behaviors of nurse managers; adequacy of training, information, and equipment; team characteristics (stability, composition, quality of relationships, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and nonprofit executives from fifteen countries who gathered for the event examined the operational and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
characteristically LEGO approach to the threat that Mega Bloks poses: “Healthy competition has provided a good wake-up call for us.” Brain Power: Bill Furlong In the mid-1990s, while working in the marketing department at Microsoft,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
THOMPSON: Recipient of the Pub & Galley Fund fellowship sponsored by Michael Cronin (MBA ’77) and the Class of 1948 Fellowship, represented by Crandon Clark (MBA 3/’48). Most students arrive at HBS full of anticipation and eager to embark on their two-year MBA journey.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
that as we connect the dots between the world’s entrepreneurial ecosystems, we keep what’s unique about each of them. Like we discussed in episode 1, Silicon Valley gave rise to the Silicon Valley model because of distinct characteristics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
distinguishing characteristics of the film industry are the visibility of its product and steep marketing costs during the product’s short life span, says Teddy Zee. “In the past, a movie premiered on 1,000 screens across the country and... View Details