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- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
trustees — to the institution’s continued success. Located on a 26-acre campus with state-of-the-art facilities, St. Johns is a pre-K through Grade 12 co-ed liberal arts private school with an enrollment of approximately 620 students. That’s down from some 750 due to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
customers and from outside the industry), decision agility (anticipating changes and turning even troubling trends into opportunities), and execution agility (building new capabilities, shedding what doesn’t fit, and taking the first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
resilience in the face of difficult challenges. “However,” he added, “I think we should all be deeply troubled about the way our political system is functioning.” Rubin also urged the HBS audience, well known for its pro bono and... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
have expected an American to have to be going through. And part of it had to do with drugs. Part of it had to do with not having enough money. But even just the spending decisions that they made when they had a little bit of money—it just... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Bridgestone/Firestone. "That was a tremendously difficult period for our customers and for us as a leadership team," recalled Nasser, before adding that Ford's commitment to consumers made it an easy View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but none of them on instructions from my shareholders. I make most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Massachusetts. As CEO and president, the way Bush talks about that decision reveals a lot about the close-knit culture of a company that last year made the Boston Globe’s “Top Places to Work” in Massachusetts list. “With our commitment to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
stressing the importance of brokers both to an external audience - those who need advice in making difficult financial decisions - and to Merrill Lynch's internal audience - the fourteen thousand brokers who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
stretch. A comic script is really an exercise in strategy because you have to make a lot of very difficult decisions based on economy. An American comic is typically 20 pages, and you don’t want to go above... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
addiction treatment alone, but administering a program that tracks an individual’s healthy behaviors, and provides incremental rewards along the way, was difficult in traditional treatment settings. From those conversations came... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
corporate board members. Retired from the active faculty since 1996, Stobaugh continues to write, consult, and serve on NACD Blue Ribbon panels. He is also a trustee of the French Library and Cultural Center in Boston. Stobaugh became a teacher because he enjoyed... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inappropriate centralized and bureaucratic organizational design on the target firm. Management was unable to make critical decisions without multiple approvals. "As a result, the organization lost its vitality, performance began to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
decision was very important for me and for all the firm’s partners. Also, given the extremely difficult financial environment we are in, I expect charities will be greatly affected. That’s why it’s incumbent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
campaign. To “put it all into action,” she says, the HBSLAA is assembling the Latinx Board Taskforce, aimed at connecting board-ready Latinx alumni and board decision makers to “move the needle on driving diversity in the boardroom.” Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
service DayJet, launched in October 2007, placed an up-front order for 239 Eclipse 500s and used a chancier, less profitable per-seat pricing model for its Florida-based operations. The company ran out of money and ceased operations last September.) Despite the View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
I stayed in a hotel until the house was ready for occupancy. But then as the security situation deteriorated, I made a decision not to live in the Green Zone. I didn’t want to be associated with the kind of bubble environment that emerged... View Details