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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
hiring outsiders for its top management ranks and stopped the merry-go-round of promotions and relocations for top managers. Immelt now wants managers to stay put and become experts in their industries, not just experts in management. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,... View Details
- Profile
Jack Perkowski
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
his company relocated to a site near a shelter and soup kitchen on the city’s west side, where many Cicero employees volunteer or work pro bono on strategy development. He finds cause for optimism in his work with city and state task... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Directors of Research Centers Share Global Perspectives
also play a key role for the centers by helping to identify and facilitate research opportunities worldwide. In related news, Masako Egawa has announced that as of September, the Japan Research Office has a new home, having relocated to... View Details
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
Turk definitely staked a claim to the HBS campus. But a little aggression wasn’t enough to run afoul of state law that protects wild creatures from relocation just to soothe jangled human nerves. Alas, perhaps the celebrity status Turk... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Home to HBS
husband and I were starting a family at the same time I was starting my MBA, I applied only to schools that met the following two criteria: Located where my husband would have been able to relocate with his job; Was a top school. Since we... View Details
- Web
Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Nicole Bucala As a student at HBS, Nicole Bucala (MBA 2015) could not stop thinking ... Activating a Legion of People Bertina Ceccarelli When a company I was working for relocated to Omaha, I knew I wanted t... Alumni Clubs Supporting &... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
the Graduate School of Education, and collaborations with the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science as it relocates to Western Avenue. The move, according to the announcement by Dean Nohria and Executive Dean for... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
"Tobin tax" on financial transactions? Claire Martin (AMP 175, 2008), VP, Renault, France I'm skeptical for three reasons. First, empirical evidence indicates such taxes have raised little revenue and have simply relocated trading rather... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
1999, the nascent success of that program, called athenaNet, and the interest it attracted from investors and other medical practices convinced Bush and Park to shift the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing. Along the way,... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
researchers found that German companies struggling to maintain long-term survival in India adopted a mix of political risk management strategies: Disguise Some companies used a “cloaking” strategy, altering their organizational structure to camouflage ownership or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
relocated so that library patrons will sacrifice nothing. In some cases, such as the book-delivery program, the service levels will actually increase during the renovation.” — Margie Kelley View Details
- Profile
Cherian Kurien
thoughtful and rigorous way. It was inspiring to see fellow students take that leap of faith, and commit to trying out certain roles that they are really passionate about but ones which have short-term pain points such as lower salaries, View Details
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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Activating a Legion of People When a company I was working for relocated to Omaha, I knew I wanted to stay in New York. I'd always imagined I'd do something in the nonprofit sector, but figured it would be at some point much later in my... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details