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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Little did they know that their call for change would result in a legacy that would have lasting impact at the School. This year HBS is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the AASU by Clifford E. “Clif” Darden (MBA 1969,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated hearing loss. The product could View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) Once relegated to the back office, human... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Michael Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an authority on organizational theory, organizational strategy, and finance. He is codirector of The Monitor Company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long. You have to be patient and impatient at the same time. A poor response would be to... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
matter what class he took in school or position he held in a company. “I have always tried to assess what kinds of interesting experiences were available to me at any one time,” he observes. Learning for learning’s sake is a theme in his life. Poor marks in View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and professional fulfillment. The book includes thought-provoking questions for reflection to help readers make a similar transformation. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (MBA 1998) (Spiegel & Grau) In 2015... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
navigating the perilous straits of leadership. Whether parent or politician, CEO or community activist, leaders will learn how to exercise leadership and survive and thrive to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
visionaries shared an ability to anticipate the significant shifts in consumer needs and desires being generated by changing times and mores. Koehn draws from diaries, correspondence, interviews, and official business records to tell the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
and “integration” to help managers grasp how an organization is an entity made up of so many modular units, and that the ideal structure of that entity depends on its way of adapting to the features of its chosen environment. “Contingency theory” showed that View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
took Nitin Nohria’s Power and Influence course my second year, and it really stuck with me. The importance of understanding people and organizational dynamics has never been so clear, especially as you move into more senior roles. I love... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
edge of a cliff, cast knowing glances and jumped. “There was that feeling that submitting the business plan was like jumping off a cliff,” says Tierney. “We couldn’t say after that, ‘Oh, we changed our minds.’” A Targeted Approach... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
leaders in organizational studies who have crafted the discourse on the intersections of race, work, and leadership. The cross-disciplinary exchange centered on learning about and from the black experience. The symposium enhanced... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
students annually and boasts a college-completion rate of more than 90 percent. “We’ve now proven our model replicates well and is quantitatively effective, so we are looking to aggressively expand.” Her time at HBS strengthened both her skillset and her network.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
1968 and named the first Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration in 1973. He was appointed to the Royal Little chair in 1980. In retirement, Christenson plans to complete work on a book he began years ago on View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage