Filter Results:
(1,554)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,782)
- People (37)
- News (1,554)
- Research (4,618)
- Events (43)
- Multimedia (59)
- Faculty Publications (3,035)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,782)
- People (37)
- News (1,554)
- Research (4,618)
- Events (43)
- Multimedia (59)
- Faculty Publications (3,035)
Sort by
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has had a View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
What I decided to do after I had spent time with several businesses-- I had the weekend-- I went to visit the Swedish Federation. It was just on a lark. And I asked them about the possibility of taking an American player, and the reaction was surprise, but they were... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
by having ethical leadership. For me, those thought processes started at HBS, which grounded me as a manager and as a leader,” Ackerley says. “How do I use my position to do good and help people find financial security? I think about that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners (shareholders who serve on the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
of facilitator and communicator." It's the company's directors, he explains, who actually develop specifications for the position and then rely on their own extensive personal networks to identify the majority of candidates. Only when... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
find myself in the position of chasing the tabloids, but in fact they did break some news." Amid the sometimes lamentable comportment of journalistic and political Washington, one individual who remains a constant inspiration for Tumulty... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
leading Goldman Sachs's new, in-house environmental efforts. Three years later, he applied for the CEO position at the Washington, D.C.-based TNC. "At first, I was viewed as an odd candidate; but to the board's credit, they thought my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
affordable housing, as well as the positive impact individuals can have by working as a team. Getting to know more about Habitat's smart model will help me immensely in thinking how to build a lasting contribution.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
to confront and resolve it, Ramanna says. Everyone who faces it feels some degree of helplessness. And Jim's helplessness was juxtaposed with the fact that, for all his relative youth and inexperience, he had been put into a position of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
sensible way and inform you about sort of your subconscious and what it wants to do. So there's a positive there. All things in moderation, but there's a positive there. Like a glass of wine, first glass of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
subscribers in financial services and the media who pay more than $1,000 a month to lease them. Just sixteen years after leaving a partnership position at Salomon Brothers, Bloomberg is outpacing more established competitors to make his... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
and the Mito city administration, and also the strong passion of the people of Mito. DM: What impact has the project already had? What are the positive changes that you see in the city and the region at large? YH: Mito had not been seeing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
(MBA 2013), James E. Lysinger (MBA 2013), Cory Rothschild (MBA 2014), Thiago Santelmo (MBA 2013), Jordan Strebeck (MBA 2014), and Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012). At each of the HBS Campaign regional events, Dean Nohria has spoken about the need to View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
acquisitions, while positive for the developing economies, puts a burden on Asian cultures to “bear the brunt of the change of ownership at local firms,” increasing the likelihood of antitrade and nationalist sentiment. A sampling of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
facilitate this revolutionary industry can be discussed and formulated. And, importantly, it offers a venue for social and ethical aspects of this revolution to be pondered. Observes West, “The life sciences revolution has so many View Details