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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
particular companies in each country. To catch students' attention immediately, they chose companies with name recognition, such as Toyota, Wedgwood, Ford, and IBM. The View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
General Electric, the world's most valuable company and the firm where he has spent his entire career, Immelt good-naturedly dealt with the barrage of attention that accompanied his media coronation. "I've never measured my self-worth by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
Joe Fuller talk to business leaders about the forces changing the way we work. Skydeck – Alumni from across the world of business share lessons learned and their own life experiences. Under the Datascope – A series from the School’s Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
country Sender wants the world to see—a new Brazil, more urbane, more professional. A place where tourists want to vacation and where companies want to do business, with cities they can both enjoy. It can happen, she says. People can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
making sure that it focused on markets and mission. The [now-former] CEO of Starbucks recently responded to a question about whether the company was trying to offer customers a convenient, quick cup of coffee or build a space for... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
there isn’t a better fit out there, or you realize there is something else you should pursue.” Before the Carnegie Corporation, you were at the Ford Foundation for 13 years, as a portfolio strategist and senior manager of private equity.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter predicted that in the long run, "strong... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
using strategies that increased their experience capital. Leaders and companies must do more to address gender inequalities in the workplace. But you don’t have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide for moving up the career ladder and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
together, Mitchell and Humpierres launched a line of microwavable heating pads filled with cherry pits. “It’s a very niche market,” Humpierres acknowledges, but once they saw that it was also successful, they decided to diversify. In June 2021, the pair launched... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
fuel and lost business included—to be $124 billion annually, or about $2,000 per commuter. Mistele and INRIX aren’t in the business of delivering bad news, however. They have been trying to do something about traffic congestion since the Kirkland, Washington–based... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
other stakeholders in society. If academic critiques were not discouraging enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. “There’s an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, and from customers — the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
been successful, all the way up to the C-suite. Look for an organization with a truly flexible culture, where new ways of thinking are embraced. Women are most successful in work and in life when they build careers in companies that value... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
companies differently. It's this notion of building sustainability and resilience into the business model from day one. Morrell: If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out, because it will give you a really good... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
she anticipated customer needs, many crews and companies requested she come back. “I felt that I changed some people’s perceptions of the fitness of a woman in such a demanding job and environment,” she says. Since those early engineering... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
contributed significantly to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. Exemplary role models, they inspire all those who aspire to have an impact on both business and society.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
priced. So they see that even with an instrument that never existed before they came into the classroom that day, the theory allows us to price it and measure its risk. Bulletin: When did you first become interested in the field of economics? Merton: I bought my first... View Details