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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
now is to move beyond the demonstration phase, and not just to run one cool program in Berkeley,” Anderson says. “We need to have multiple sites, and to develop a network of campuses producing great results so that we can have more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
selected professional managers to run them, and given them more financial autonomy, which has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by SOEs, but not the temptation for governments to intervene in the operation of large strategic... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
was inspired by a classmate to try running a marathon on every continent. I’m currently training for the Rio de Janeiro marathon, and the process has become a joyful blend of challenge and self-care. What are you reading / binge-watching?... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Running a business in today’s business landscape gets more difficult every year. Given the level of competition and market ups and downs, it seems one has to either sacrifice one’s personal life for the job or lose everything. But... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
two, he had become “a difficult child,” and by three she was calling him a “troublemaker.” He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since. Golf: A Course in Business: A Few Lessons Golf Can Teach Us About... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
videos this morning.” Balancing act: “In leadership, there’s a tension between getting good information from multiple stakeholders and a more top-down approach, where you trust your intuition, take a minority point of view, and run with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time horizons of many successful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in a sawmill View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Just Has to Make Money by Robert C. Hacker (MBA 1972) (North American Publishing Company) Nobody has more stories than agency account people. Having been inside hundreds of clients’ organizations and six agencies and seen it all, Hacker couldn’t share these tales when... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
University, where she received a PhD in psychology in 1977. BACK IN THE PIT Today, as the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, Amabile, 74, can look back on more than four decades dedicated to researching creativity, motivation, and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Dream: Tales from the Middle of the Pack By James Riehl, Jr. (MBA 1978) Palmetto Publishing During the running boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the names of the swiftest runners were on everyone’s lips. Frank Shorter. Bill Rodgers.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
market-distorting bubble. The big difference between now and the late 1980s is supply. “Oversupply is kryptonite to the real estate market, and I don’t see an oversupply situation,” he notes. Nor do other market insiders, whose consensus assessment is that new... 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 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
matching the entire US division in revenues. “After that I was hit up by Motorola to run their GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] operation in Pakistan, which is where I discovered mobile—and the rest, as they say, is history.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
someone to be responsible for the domestic market in Brazil," he said. "It's a really big opportunity. Are you interested?" That's the other big challenge that Sender—who was appointed CEO in May 2013 after less than two years running the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
for alumni approaching retirement: Cut back work hours gradually, develop outside interests, and consider serving in local or state government. “You can run for office, make a contribution, and not give up your retirement. MBAs have been... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Bailey, who managed several Tahitian resorts, would be kind enough to give him some advice. On the nearby island of Tetiaroa, which the actor owned, Brando had a modest inn and wanted to know how to run it better. Decades earlier, Brando... View Details