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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
A Chance to Thrive
after HBS and then joined Lehman Brothers, where she cofounded a group that focused on developing strategic opportunities for women and minority-owned financial services firms. At work as well as through her philanthropic activities,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
customer service. Harvard Business Review on Managing Diversity. From managing diversity to exploring alternative workplaces to debunking myths about compensation, the topics covered in this compilation address how to build organizations with judicious and View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
Harrold returned home, he earned a master’s degree in political science but ultimately realized academia wasn’t for him. “I decided I was better suited for the business world where strategic and decisive thinking are more valued,” he... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
achieved more effectively through creative combinations of available technologies and smart management than through radical technological innovations. He has also published on topics such as strategic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
many WEBSE business models. To succeed, Austin argues, WEBSEs must execute effective strategies in three key areas. For driving traffic to the site, he uncovered two primary models: WEBSEs can generate the traffic themselves, or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
advice about the strategic responses that are likely to be most effective in the changing venture capital environment. The third group — governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, and large corporations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
ranked 23rd in the world in 2014, besting the likes of Israel and Austria, according to the consulting group Hamilton Place Strategies. It’s not just independent hackers. It’s state-sponsored hackers who put on military uniforms and head... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this area was about the outbound View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
faculty member to CEO, everyone in the workshop is intensely involved in the learning experience." During the May workshop, a total of ten sessions focused on topics such as near-term organizational challenges; the creation of a strategic... View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that is to look at what has changed at Bain & Company in recent years. Increasingly, our clients are demanding strategic counsel in this critical area. At least two-thirds of them currently engage Bain's services on one or more Internet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling, Frank V. Cespedes laments the fact that sales and strategy rarely make a joint and complementary appearance in MBA classrooms or academic journals. Professors stick safely... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
progress they've made with their ventures. These include Abigail Falik's (MBA 2008) Global Citizen Year (pictured above), which she founded after she discovered, as a recent high school graduate, that the Peace Corps was effectively... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
the very "soul" of e-business in a rapidly emerging e-culture. E-culture, she writes, "involves better ways of leading, organizing, working, and thinking." It is an environment in which individuals must evolve if they are to become leaders who can execute quick, View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
Alumni Books So You Think You Can Teach: From Expert Practitioner to Successful Instructor by Bill Cockrum (MBA 1961) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Cockrum provides a guide for presenting or teaching a class to an adult audience, including learning how to create... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
from opioids), Shumway also cites domestic abuse and criminal records that prevent reintegration into society as primary factors that contribute to homelessness. “A disproportionate number of the homeless are also veterans with mental health challenges related to their... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for Organizational Fitness, outline six barriers to implementing View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross