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- 01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally
When HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1973, it was his first experience living outside the United States. “I had three degrees from Harvard, and my major lifetime move had been from the western suburbs of Boston to Cambridge,” he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
Early every Tuesday morning, Karen Gordon Mills leaves her house in Brunswick, Maine, and embarks on her weekly commute to Manhattan. She spends the next several days immersed in her work as managing director of a new private-equity firm,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
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Facing the Board
of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
as they were years ago . Even skis within our sport have undergone dramatic improvements.” Read about Hanson’s effort to engineer a better boot. Previous Next Enjoy football, repair capitalism Roger Martin (MBA 1981) Dean, Rotman School of View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
organization’s DNA and treat it as a radical new operating system. Deep Purpose is the result of a three-year journey for Gulati, in which he visited organizations around the world to see, firsthand, how leaders have managed to create... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
revolutionary orthopedic devices to market and changing the surgical approach to healing broken bones. After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1959, he worked for Chrysler Corporation, helping set up... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
“Development work is more about listening than telling,” says Marie Sheppard (MBA 1990), a veteran of more than two decades with the World Bank Group. As she winds up an assignment as manager of the Bank’s Innovation Labs in Washington,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
strong as ever, even if their lives have shifted focus. Kim Ulrich Whelan (MBA '84), who heads the Boston office of a consulting company that places people in flexible work arrangements, seemed to sum it up for many: "I want to make a living, but I also want to View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. Oui, La... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
Philanthropy, who will spearhead the effort along with Emerson. Changes are sweeping the social capital markets, in part because a new breed of donor is altering the terrain: Internet moguls, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders who... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley For Hal Brierley (MBA 1968), Harvard Business School changed the direction of his career. He arrived at Soldiers Field assuming he would combine his BS in chemical... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
applications and markets is something few possess. These findings suggest that business educators should place more emphasis on building these skills. What are the broad implications of your research findings for corporate managers? Above all, View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
says. “This is just good governance.” Under Cordeiro, the first-ever general manager has been hired for the men’s national team, with a GM coming soon for the women’s national team, which will be defending their title at this year’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
classmates from Mumbai who knew my extended family. Things really changed in America. At HBS about 13 of my classmates were out, and we had a great example in Frances Frei, a rock star professor who is openly lesbian. Then I joined Bain &... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
it's Professor Michael E. Porter's seminal work on the competitive advantage of nations or Professor Cynthia A. Montgomery's recent book on corporate strategy, HBS C&S faculty are a leading voice in the strategic management arena. Most of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young