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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
first entered the Olympics competition in 1996. A frequent speaker on finance, investment, and General Patton, Stillman is president of R.J. Stillman Company, his writing and publishing operation. HBS was a memorable experience for me, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
enable a competitive advantage, I recommend that the company should focus on establishing its brand. —Ngassam Ngnoumen (MBA 2002) I question whether vinyl is a cool trend or a sustainable product line. Sure, it’s kind of cool. But if it’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives: consistently View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
happens on the mat.” Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and an expert in global branding, believes that Lululemon’s biggest accomplishment has been positioning itself as an upscale athletic leisure brand akin... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
that tend to feed into top MBA programs as well as in leadership positions in major organizations.” Rice found HBS to be a strange and wondrous place. Strange, he says, because, compared to most of his classmates, he had very little... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
to own the problem and do a lot of work to figure out our values and culture.” “Coming to HBS with a liberal arts background from Yale meant I had to ‘tool up’ a bit on the more quantitative subjects. But I enjoyed the environment; the culture was both View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
sustain, the role of co-ops in a Rwandan village was more than just helping farmers improve their income. Looking closer, I saw that the co-ops would give farmers a common sense of purpose, an incentive to want to work together and achieve a View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
readable page-turner, for avid Sinatraphiles as well as more casual fans of his music and films. It examines the positive and negative forces that made Sinatra, Sinatra. Logra Tu Dream (Achieve Your Dream): How 50 Successful Latinos &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
Publishing (HBSP) together contributed more than half of the School’s revenue growth. Executive Education revenue increased by $10 million, reflecting a positive market response to the newly launched Comprehensive Leadership Programs and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
not-too-distant future. Those kinds of questions were very real for Cummins in the last decade as the company was forced by global competition to undergo considerable change. Amid downsizing and restructuring, how do you maintain the work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
explained Thomke. “I invited Jason to class to help students understand how people at the top of their profession innovate in an extremely competitive environment.” It was a class that few of Thomke’s students will ever forget. Randal,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
together so much might also exacerbate some instant dislikes between students, but fortunately I don’t hear about those in the class notes and am happy to highlight below only the positive examples of high spirits, recently submitted by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge, and expertise — the emerging... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
economic battlefield, emerging markets like Russia -- where Nestlé is active -- represent valuable new territory for the highly competitive consumer foods business. Nestlé, the world's largest packaged-food company, has always emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
started. Any hospital, or physician practice, or health plan, or employer can take positive steps in the direction of value-based competition and be better off, even if nothing else changes. Reforming the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: costs and prices... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
On the most basic level, job interviews provide an opportunity for companies and potential employees to exchange essential information. But in today’s crowded job market, applicants who really want to outclass the competition need to go... View Details