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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
import-export. Watanabe went to school in Japan until the eighth grade before moving to America where he completed his higher education, joined McKinsey, and eventually returned to Japan. It was there he had an idea for a book, pitched to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
later launched Dealogic, a financial services software firm. Their success in business enabled Peter to set up the Ogden Trust in 1998, a nonprofit that initially provided funding for talented students to pursue higher View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
knows the subject all too well: Langer herself is a breast cancer survivor whose own bout with the disease seventeen years ago led her to leave a successful career at Lehman Brothers to fight cancer on behalf of other women, including those with limited View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
greater societal equality and a fiduciary obligation to shareholders, she writes. Like so many companies before us, my company, Rent the Runway, had two tiers of workers. Our salaried employees — who typically came from relatively privileged, View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
A Visible Example of What’s Possible
spas, in 1999. At San Francisco State’s College of Business, Oubre and her husband recently endowed the Linda and Nathaniel Oubre Leadership Scholarship for first-generation students of color. She also achieved another dream earlier this year, receiving her doctorate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
government; higher esteem for business leaders than government officials; growing respect for entrepreneurship and for people who get things done; and pressure from the corporate responsibility movement for business to get more involved.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html. The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation The notion of levying higher taxes on tall people — an idea offered largely tongue in cheek — presents an ideal way to highlight the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
thirty counselors (many of whom are HBS alumni) to help students with their job search, from self-assessment to résumé writing. “It’s a terrific program,” she says. “It will be interesting to see if it results in higher long-term job... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Leadership for External Relations
political science and history from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and an MA in political science and a Ph.D. in higher education administration, both from the University of Toledo in Ohio. He has served... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
kind of energy. “We’re trying to encourage a very different kind of pedagogy in which the stakes are even higher for the students,” says Youngme Moon. That means extensive and intensive classroom interaction among students and faculty... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Helping high achievers achieve even more
exceptional students in their pursuit of higher education," says Stamps. "We are building a community of high achievers and helping them to achieve even more." (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
group around the table, a single talented and committed director can turn an entire company on its axis. Still, the system is in need of fundamental change. Shareholders have a part to play. They must shed their apathy and ignorance and demand View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared, but its days are numbered. The... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
gamer, the coder, the hacker—all stereotypically male. Recent statistics give some truth to that image. In 2014, Google reported that 7 out of every 10 of its then 48,600 employees were men. The number was even higher among its engineers... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
during economic recovery—and three pieces of advice for today’s leaders Wide Angle Professor Debora Spar on Roosevelt’s reforms—and how the pandemic might impact globalization and the future of higher View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- News
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
higher education admissions, and a classmate encouraged her to explore fundraising. The rest is history. She is currently vice president of external affairs and advancement at The Greater Boston Food Bank,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
results of the forum - and a call for action - will be disseminated nationally. On the evening of April 7, Kanter moderated a public "town meeting" panel discussion on the "The Role of Business in Public Education and Welfare Reform." The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Instead, he applied to the Ph.D. program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was accepted. Once at MIT, Nohria realized that in management education he had found his true passion. After completing the program, he turned down offers... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations than in the past. The authors present a broad framework suited to such complexity and identify four critical activities for effective leadership of... View Details