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- 02 Jul 2008
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No Pulp Fiction Allowed
theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most promising young leaders firsthand, lived experience in parts of the world that, frankly, too few of us have had direct exposure to, and many, many more of us need to understand firsthand. Flint: Why have Americans been slower to come around to this View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
world of the HBS classroom, a dynamic environment where faculty display their talent not only for presenting new ideas and breathing fresh life into traditional academics, but also for drawing out the wisdom and experience of everyone... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
are hard to solve and take a lot of resources,” he says. The Answers: I have a classmate who had an incredible idea and could’ve started a platform to create cash flow. But the bigger he thought, the more monstrous the View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
institution posing it. Paulson affirmed his support for the idea in a March 18, 2009, op-ed article in the Financial Times. In January, an international group of leading financiers and academics known as the Group of Thirty (G30) issued a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
individual manager in determining what to do. “There are some deep, enduring ideas in that book that I’m very fond of,” he adds. As Nohria explains in our interview, the book that speaks most directly to his challenges as Dean is In Their... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
the rising generation of girls to assume positions of leadership. Deborah Singer (MBA 2013) is chief marketing officer of the national nonprofit that is working to transform the idea of what a programmer looks like. Between summer and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
audience shifted in their seats and went “Ooohhh!” Wails of laughter. It had hurt good. The best lesson I learned at HBS: The big progressive companies spent 20 percent of their profit on R&D. Twenty percent of my time—one day a week—I do something that I have no View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
calculating. Ferrazzi acknowledges that enduring relationships can form on their own, but it’s worth the hard work and dedication needed to move things along. And who can argue with the goal of developing more life-changing deep friendships? The View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
deep knowledge of the challenges facing communities and society.” To date, some eleven organizations from Boston to Brazil have indicated they would be interested in hiring Service Leadership Fellows. This enthusiastic response suggests to HBS professor Michael E.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
to support the School’s mission. “Our strategic mission and our financial performance are closely linked,” explains Melnick. “HBS faculty continually generate important new ideas and insights, then translate this intellectual capital into... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
and her colleagues are doing. “This commitment to developing ideas with impact not just in academia but also in practice and in policy,” says Dean Nitin Nohria, “is a vital part of our identity and DNA.” View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
physics. “Because of the mission of the trust, it suited us to support research at HBS,” says Cameron, who recently took over for his father as chair of the trust and is also board chair of the educational philanthropy SHINE. Guiding the Ogdens’ legacy of giving at HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
of his 50th Reunion that he hopes will be focused on the intersection of business and life sciences. McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business skills can be used to tackle society’s... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
prints out a P&L statement and asks the manager what Shoen can do to make the business better. He jots down ideas on a pad, then snaps a photo of his notes with his phone to text to his assistant, who then often turns it into a memo to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well as committed to disseminating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
strategic vision and actionable ideas for their firms. Next month, the School will host a third offering of its Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning for some seventy business-school educators from Singapore and Greater... View Details