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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
the framework for the firm's culture. "Similarly," he continues, "I decided to lay Greylock's financial foundation by bringing together a group of limited partners who had some relationship with me and often with each other, rather than... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
environment that was all built around being the best that you could be.” A typical day: “What is that?” Building a team: “I’m not doing any of this stuff by myself. I’m doing it with a team of people who, in most cases, are more knowledgeable; I’m the laggard.” The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
a relationship between long-term thinking, social purpose, and success,” he says. Since taking over as CEO, Waldron has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and on stakeholder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders who can change the world for the better: all of us! Since each of us constantly influences those around us, by definition, everyone is a leader, not just people with formal titles. This book will help everyone tap into the power... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"I wanted to work in international development," says Ballou, whose fellowship through the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise supplemented her summer income. "I also had a wonderful opportunity at the World Bank, but the IRC gave me a chance to work directly with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
competition from other players in their respective industries. Many factors contributed to their success but much hinged on their ability, as Koehn writes, to create “products and connections to buyers that offered not only quality, convenience, and reliability but... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington," Harmon says. "Enan's ability to relate to people and explain opportunities in Egypt to members of Congress who hadn't spent much—if any—time there, was exactly what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
our purpose?” Cohen had spent 23 years at the happiest place on earth, most recently as a senior VP of brand, franchise, and customer relationship management, a role that gave her a bird’s eye view across the company’s vast commercial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
can turn to for advice, feedback, and counsel (while offering the same in return). Who tells you the brutal truth—things you need to hear even though you may not want to hear them? Relationships serve as a View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
Associate Professor Meg Rithmire The dynamic relationship between a country’s political system and its business environment is a topic that intrigues Meg Rithmire, the F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration. An... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
salaries and benefits.” Then I’d say, “No, let’s look at the real comp.” Real comp is the tangibles plus the intangibles in a job, and the number-one intangible in a job is social capital—your relationship with your boss and your View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
herbicides, reducing risk.) In general, Reinhardt asserts, it is market leaders who, by virtue of their power to shape the nature of competition in their industries, can force other firms to follow. Flexing similar muscle are firms with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
online code repositories or knowledge repositories like the kind we offer. That was very powerful to see. But we obviously did not have a premonition that we were going to accelerate to this level of coordination based on this pandemic.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart (Financial Times Prentice Hall) Every day, women in the United States launch more than 450 new businesses. They employ more people than the Fortune 500 and contribute over $2.3 trillion to the U.S. economy annually. There... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
tasks: strengthening links between portfolio objectives and overall company goals; ensuring that the relationship among projects creates greater value and efficiency; and making sure that projects build organizational capacity to respond... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
"MD Anderson was an exciting discovery, because it was a real-world example of the IPU concept at work in a top-rated, cancer-focused hospital," recalls Porter, who cowrote an HBS case on MD Anderson with Sachin Jain (MBA 2007/MD 2008). As the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also carefully weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
amount of tension to stretch my limits while keeping me safe. After an hour, I finally came up over the top of the rock, and to my surprise there was my son on belay. He was given that assignment, without my knowledge, by a very wise instructor. It was a View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
emphasizes the power of fate and serendipity in finding love. How do you respond to those who find your proactive approach too contrived? If there’s one pet peeve I have after 10 years in the love business, it’s people’s complete faith in... View Details