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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day, Lhota thought, as beautiful as any the city ever sees. After seven years in the Giuliani administration, including service as the city's budget director, Lhota, the deputy mayor for operations, was becoming more conscious of each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
HBS over the years, and the School will be well served by his leadership qualities and his deep knowledge of the School’s distinctive character,” he added. In response to a question, Light included among his early priorities building and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
administrative overhead has fallen approximately 25 percent. “It’s an efficient, functional system,” he adds, citing the program’s capability in database management and automatic processing — two particularly useful qualities when it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
looking at which qualities and characteristics psychologists consider to be “gendered” to see if they were stereotypically male or female. We found that if you look at the top ten characteristics, more than half were male, a small number... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
Corporate Director's Guidebook, the basic attributes for board service eligibility are common sense, practical wisdom, and informed judgment. Add to these baseline qualities the skills and experience... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
employee job security may hurt some services businesses. "It seems to me that job security is a major element in employee productivity," he comments. "If staff members spend a lot of time worrying whether their jobs will be there... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
quality of life, drain needed government resources, and place new demands on our companies." Indeed, while business may be commended for its social responsibility efforts in many areas, in others it exhibits characteristics common to the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
exposure by distinguishing the thicker parts of a person’s body from the thinner areas that need less radiation. This limits exposure and thus, provides a safer and better service to patients,” Tantawy explains. “Also, in whole-body... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
everything from the quality of patient care to a hospital’s bottom line. “Health care executives pay close attention to how nursing time is being utilized. They strive for efficiency in fear of finding themselves in troublesome financial... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
process at every level of the 17,320-employee company. "Most nonhuman resources, such as capital or equipment, can be acquired," he says. "What's more important is how a corporate strategy is executed and how people utilize resources." At Boise Cascade, where a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
character and leadership qualities of several prominent figures, past and present — including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) — whose work has had broad social or political implications. “It’s not a business book,” Zaleznik explains.... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
virus. “They created products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in-person gatherings aren’t possible,” explains Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
asked her why, she said, “I think there’s something special in you and you’d be a good leader for the team.” That stuck with me for a long time: Mrs. Hazelip identified a quality in me that I hadn’t seen myself, that I had the potential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
living conditions of the people who fix your house, mow your lawn, teach your children, and are the first responders in an emergency. Ask how they can have the same quality of life that you do.” View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
of service.” Kanter was followed by Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen, an adviser to several presidential administrations. Gergen cited polls that reveal Americans’ deepening discontent with the quality of leadership across... View Details