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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
We work with two gyms currently, and we’re planning to partner with some after-school programs to bring instructors to them.” What are your short- and long-term goals for PowerUP? MGA: “We currently serve 100 kids, and we are aiming to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Publishing) How do marketing managers assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities? This book explores which companies and products should expand internationally, what countries offer the best opportunities, and which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
about students' "road trip" stories Plan B: The Brick Bank Issue Focus: The Global Manager They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home HBS celebrated the opening of its newest classroom in early March—in... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
that made ENIAC hum to the transistors and integrated circuits that powered the first commercial mainframes, and decades longer to develop the kinds of chip-based systems that now power everything from smartphones to supercomputers. Some... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
of industry such as Andrew Carnegie. "They were interesting stories of integrity that stayed with me," he says. After graduating, Appling spent several years at McKinsey & Company, then took a job at Seimens. In 2006, he began at Bright... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
an invitation to join the HBS faculty. He taught the School's first agribusiness course, which from the outset, Goldberg recalls, was intended to take "an integrated approach to studying all aspects of this complex sector of the world... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles has spent his academic career burrowing deeply into the arcane subject of corporate reporting—not the hottest of business topics. At least not until now. With the publication of One Report: View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
and it's kind of just a checkbox. And I was on the hunt to understand unlocking growth in companies. That was the question I’d been studying for much of my career. And I’ve always bucketed understanding growth into two buckets: building the right strategy and having an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
1987) and Gary Grossman Beaufort Books Arctic ice is melting, the waters are warming, and Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov is one step closer to monopolizing the oil industry and funding his expansionism plans past Ukraine and Latvia.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
has been in place for the past several years, Harad says that people are involved "fairly far down" within the company's various businesses in developing strategies and the plans to carry them out. "In our paper business," he relates, "we... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
and with Marietta’s support, recently completed her undergrad degree. Pine Mountain’s approach is holistic: In addition to offering more than a dozen environmental education courses for schoolchildren that integrate science, ecology, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
is almost 100 percent effective in protecting children’s teeth against decay, only about one-third of kids get it. By contrast, in the minority of dental plans that provide comprehensive care for a yearly fixed fee, nearly all children... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and social enterprise. He also oversaw a major campus master View Details
Keywords: Dean