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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
at the helm (he was knighted in 2000), in 22 years WPP has become a giant with revenues of some $12 billion, offering a full range of services in areas such as advertising, digital and promotional marketing, public relations and public affairs, branding, consulting,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
whose work has had a major impact on modern financial markets." "We are enormously proud that Bob Merton has received this honor," noted HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. "He has made and continues to make fundamental contributions to finance and... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
morning on October 12, 2020, a home security system captured a moment that would go viral on social media. [knocking] Bob Wilson: Paul? JH: Bob Wilson and his wife Mary had walked across the street to his colleague Paul Milgrom’s house to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the HBS Initiative on View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
address more specific health conditions that can improve with behavior change. The Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award was launched by the HBSANC in 1979 to honor entrepreneurial firms that are making a transformational impact... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
impact as a specialist than as a generalist. One of the themes we talked about a lot at Yahoo! is fast failure. You want to create a culture that encourages taking risks and trying new things. If they don’t work out or fail, which many of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
been designed to create a new kind of offshore operating environment, where safety was the priority. Management attacked the safety issue from the top down, investing extensively in leadership training, policies, and practices intended to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that exporting manufacturing has a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
covered. That's what we do for one another." That was the kind of thing that Sheryl did for everyone who worked closely with her. That really had an impact on the culture of her organization. The culture did scale even though the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
asynchronously. But I think there’s a second element of shoulder-tapping that relates to socialization and informal discussions. The model there has been to informally mix people randomly to create these water-cooler moments. I was on a... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
received a similar treatment from our section. That show of affection indicated that many of my section mates felt as I did about the impact he had on our thinking about the subject of marketing. You will be missed, Professor Salmon.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
more responsibility in the way decisions are made both from an investment perspective, but also from a money-deployment perspective on the entrepreneurial level. Morrell: It’s easy to think of the Silicon Valley model and the Frontier... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are involved in corporate... View Details