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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
be anywhere in your 50s all the way to your 80s. But I call it the "R" years because you're really relaunching, rethinking what you want to do. And then, the fourth quarter is what I would call sort of the legacy years, where you're View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
you know, what kind of comp plan are you using? Or different things like that. And so we grew to love each other. Because each one of us had their turn in the barrel. DM: You know, you mentioned by the end of your tenure at GE that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
creating a strategic plan to address the crisis, with the Department of Public Health leading the effort. A two-day meeting to gather information from stakeholders, including state legislators and public health officials, kick-started the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
alumni community. “I really liked being connected to other alumni, and Community Partners has helped me maintain a strong connection to HBS,” she says. “It was a pretty positive experience. I definitely plan to stay involved.” Now serving... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
understood the banks’ response, but I also knew my strategy and business plan would revive the company,” he says. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution.” Viana had been in a similarly tight spot at other times... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen is the first of four HBS “legends” to be profiled during the School’s Centennial year. Christensen and several colleagues conducted seminal research in corporate strategy and business planning that made the Business Policy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
home," 36 percent were actually working parttime, and another 12 percent worked on contracted projects. Of those who had left the workforce but planned to return, 61 percent said they were seeking nontraditional business careers and had... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Fabio Consoli Whatever your summer plans might look like this year—whether you’re traveling to a faraway beach or enjoying downtime much closer to home—nothing has the power to transport us... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual financial secretary before his... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
of—engineers.” Louneva, who plans to head to Silicon Valley after graduation, took a computer science course at Harvard College. For others not ready to commit to a full semester, the club offers an always sold-out, two-day intensive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
At that point, Rogers recounts with a smile, the Kraft lawyer “got very reasonable.” On the spot, he offered to let Dreyer’s use its name in thirteen western states, a compromise that Rogers readily accepted. At the time, he had no plans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,... 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 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