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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
my friends recommended a book called Moms on Call: Basic Baby Care. It’s essentially an instruction manual for infants, but I followed everything the book said, and it really worked. Did your business background come into play in your writing process? There’s a certain... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
discipline and focus and HBS with opening up the world of business to him.” Thankful for the opportunities both experiences offered him, Waite continued to serve in the US Army Reserve for 20 years after completing three years of active... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
screen. There have been a lot of lunches at the local café.” Road conditions: “When I’m traveling, I depend on my Whoop strap. It helps me be disciplined about my sleep and lets me know overall how my body is feeling—if I can exercise... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
is that the School dramatically increased its investment in research and course development: from $10 million in 1980 to more than $50 million in 1995. HBS faculty members cite the former Dean's long-term vision, his skill at matching people with resources, and his... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Press) Faced with thousands of studies, theories, frameworks, tools, and best practices in the discipline of leadership — an enormous, confusing body of knowledge — how does one learn to become a better leader? To find the essentials of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
some of Wall Street’s most successful investment gurus (Benjamin Graham, John Neff, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and others) and shows readers how to combine their proven strategies into a disciplined investing system. The model portfolio... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view of the many different View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
strategy can stretch an agency’s core capabilities and push it in unintended directions. If a nonprofit doesn’t develop (its) operating mission and strategy platform in a disciplined way, its management tends to think every program is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
Organized in conjunction with the Centennial, the event drew nearly ninety faculty and practitioners from around the world. A conversation with Khurana follows. What was your goal in organizing this event? We wanted to lay a foundation, to take stock of what we know... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
anyone wanting to learn how to make an impact as a leader, learn and adapt from failures, build thriving teams, and generally achieve success in both work and life regardless of industry, discipline or level of experience. Through lively... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
entrepreneurship and STEM subjects in a major at college," says Earls. "It's an opportunity to marry technical disciplines with entrepreneurial spirit. The future of this nation will require technical skills and the thinking of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including The Nature Conservancy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Family Health International. The remaining participants represented a variety of disciplines - sociology, business, and public... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
conservative, disciplined approach. At the end of 2018, Tesla’s cash on hand totals stood at $3.7 billion; that total was $14.5 billion for the third quarter of 2020. That’s money the carmaker can use for global expansion, including new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
faculty in 1998. “It took me a while to find my niche.” His on-going research at HBS synthesizes elements of history, sociology, business, and statistics (see sidebar). In the classroom, Fleming has carved out a place for himself helping students from diverse View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
stakeholders may or may not find ‘good enough’ in the short term but that pay off for everyone eventually. Decision-making at deep-purpose companies becomes an exercise in ‘practical idealism,’ a discipline of honest and often messy... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
gives high school juniors and seniors interested in STEM subjects an early immersion in the college environment, and helped an organization win a $5 million grant to promote entrepreneurship to high school students. “It’s an opportunity to marry technical View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
While the case method forces students to think on their feet and engage with complex ideas and data, McFarlan said it is also “a remarkable discipline for forcing faculty to understand and deal with real world situations.” The professors... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
were all just impulse purchases," he says. "I like to begin things; that's my great weakness, I guess. It's always fun to start a project, but then you have to discipline yourself to finish." If the stunning photographs in Adventures with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg