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- 19 Aug 2010
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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
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
presentations to a group of some three hundred top investment professionals. Presenters spoke of markets with multibillion-dollar potential, margins over 70 percent, eighteen-month paths to profitability, and, of course, products View Details
- 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
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
of the highly educated, Wallace says the move has boosted the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and turned into a competitive advantage. Ovia is among a handful of companies that are rethinking their screening... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
valuable IP," he says. "That IP tends to be lost, or picked up for little money by companies that don't contribute to the competitiveness of the technology industry. I like salvaging them, then selling them to big corporate buyers. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive competition that might make a... 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 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
and public housing. Although heartening, Grogan and Proscio admit that these positive trends are fragile first steps and "entirely reversible, if treated with indifference." "The point is not that poverty has been abolished, or will be,"... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
opportunities to travel and meet new people. Maintain a sense of humor and share your true self. Make sure you have close friends with whom you can brainstorm and complain in private. Be positive in the job environment, but be sure that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better understanding of how the School might best contribute to this effort. “To maintain a leadership position globally, the United... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
company where she was working as an engineer — Intel. After marrying Ann and six successful years in various engineering, marketing, and management positions at the chipmaker, Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins in 1980. His impressive list of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
a post for Lodge as assistant secretary of labor for international affairs in the Eisenhower administration, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy. In 1962, Lodge, who had strong views about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
experiences proved symbiotic. As the School's only extramural, competitive sports team, the HBS Rugby Football Club resonated with players and a growing number of fans, if not the administration. In the five decades since, some 1,500 men... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
mounted with no relief to either side, the fund would keep growing, providing an increased incentive to settle. When one side cried uncle - on whatever terms - the financial strike would be over. But a great windfall would be waiting, and the company's View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of this bid attracted me to the cause. Under the leadership of Atlanta real-estate attorney Billy Payne, who is now ACOG's president and CEO, a small group of local people was determined to bring the Olympics here because they felt it would uplift the entire community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details