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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the business has changed a lot in a short period of time. What are some of the challenges that come... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
about 30 million learning minutes a day, to about 85 million learning minutes per day. But then we also realized there was just a lack of leadership and an information gap on what should people be doing? What should parents be doing? What... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the world’s biggest problem—CO2 and climate change—provides a quick and entertaining introduction to the science behind it. This concise primer is for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate, but even knowledgeable readers will learn something new and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
personally, too. As he began to dig into the research, the conclusions were unambiguous: “I needed to retire and dedicate myself to sharing knowledge,” recalls Brooks, who left AEI in 2019. Courtesy Arthur Brooks At HBS, he teaches the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
they implement their approaches in all the countries in which they operate. The research was sparked by a discussion of layoffs in the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Sucher was initially surprised to discover... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
take advantage of them and do amazingly well, but most of our organizations—in every single industry across every single economy—grow linearly and not exponentially. That means we need to change the structure of our organizations.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
aesthetics are an important element in the evolution of the campus, at HBS, physical changes have always paralleled academic needs. “That emphasis is part of the School’s DNA,” says Angela Quinn Crispi (MBA 1990), the School’s executive... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm from 1984 to 2015 and continues to sit on its board. For the last half century, DeFehr has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior associate dean for University... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a consensus-building View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
others feel that the growing attention to the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and economic conditions in recent years have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
awards from Advertising Age (2005) and Creativity (2004, 2005). In May, Hicks and the firm’s three partners were featured on the cover of BusinessWeek as “The Craziest Ad Guys in America.” Here, Hicks talks about the method in the madness of CP+B’s success. What has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
expose minority youngsters to the same opportunities I had,” he explains. At HBS, Sundy has served his classmates as cochair of the Leadership and Values Initiative. “I believe in empowering people by involving them,” he says. “That means... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
of goods and services. Progress is slow, and estimates are that it will be years before any substantive change is seen. Some even fear that India’s escalating population will overwhelm any improvements. “India has very good software in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
network. HBS’s 87,000-plus alumni serve as change makers and an important resource for students. Early in the pandemic, the CPD team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan