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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
training in account management, Bines was picked for the vacant position. He lost no time demonstrating his abilities and was soon hired by Mont Blanc as promotions manager. When Mont Blanc's president left to take over the struggling... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
Sherri and Jed (MBA 1975) Bullard One of HBS’s greatest strengths, says Jed Bullard (MBA 1975), is that it trains students to appreciate different perspectives, in particular, how people brought up in different countries, cultures, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Last Look
us straight: “My husband’s first cousin, Andrew Rogal, is the person in the foreground. He was not an HBS student. Rather, his wife at the time was hired as a photographer for end-of-year HBS events, and Andrew showed up to see how things... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
Schools, and from there launched a training and consulting company to help educators and leaders think through how to use the best of innovation to create a new student experience. “We’re in the 21st century now and there are tools that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
emphasizes. Pencils and pens are more inspiring. “Look at an artist, an architect; they will always draw the first lines by hand.” For learning. Studies show that students who take notes by hand retain more information and understand it better: “The brain is like a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean
Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm. He is the author of several case studies, articles, and the book What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
in," she said. "In my second year, I made $100,000, which was an enormous amount at the time." Krauss' career in investment banking lasted about a decade. Seeking a more personally meaningful career, she enrolled in Harvard Medical School... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
out and trained us," adds Olebe, a director of marketing at American Express who convinced many of his Amex colleagues — all HBS alumni — to volunteer as well. "Volunteers don't have to be experts in how to take a computer apart. Their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
incentives for better care along the way. “If one person is looking for a cardiologist, the question is always, ‘Who is the best cardiologist?’” he says. “When it comes to a dentist, the question is, ‘Who is convenient? Who is good?’ It... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
investment in business performance (IT helping divisions and departments boost profitability), and personal value (CIOs contributing well beyond their area of specialization) — and then communicate these important IT contributions to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
School's first program with a major e-learning component and to train one-on-one coaches to support a more individualized approach to learning. In my own research and writing, I am currently working on two topics: what it takes to lead... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
comfortable, that task has to fall to the airports. “Travel was stressful already, and even more so after COVID. The airports need to respond by making this time as relaxing as possible,” says Fraser, who is also a trained architect,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
hours a day, has a development team instead of a staff, and has no checkout lines. Bricks-and-mortar firms such as Walgreens, on the other hand, must build physical stores and employ and train store staff. Customers have to show up in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
are trained to make a difference in the world. Such stories inspire the School’s majority of alums to feel more connected and akin to each other, to HBS, and to the mission we all share. Lorne Adrain (MBA ’83) Providence, RI How to Make... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
slowly. In 1978, he wrote Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class. He trademarked his company’s name, Bikram’s Yoga College of India, and in 1994 began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers each year. Bikram also followed the very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president... View Details