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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier not having to worry about the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
help us manage climate change.” There are possibilities in genomics, she says, where data is expanding beyond our capacity to grasp it. There’s potential in health care, helping to eliminate simple things like false positives in hospital... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to the community financially and through volunteer positions on local boards).... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
startup executives across many different functions, who share their stories and describe their responsibilities; and a methodology to identify and evaluate startups and position readers to find the opportunity that’s right for them. Rebel... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012).... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
director, I was not involved in research day-to-day, but I was bringing in funding to support it." Partway up the ladder, however, Earls realized he was missing something. "I was in my first management-level position at NASA, and I... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
savings, and insurance products. Together, WWB and the leaders in its network work with policymakers to create financial systems for the needy majority in their regions. Barry joined WWB as president in 1990 after fifteen years in top View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
accepted an offer from McKinsey. Yet the team received overwhelmingly positive verbal feedback from some judges and offers of funding. “We need to do this work now,” is how Fenton sums up the collective realization at the time that they... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
happiness by tweaking minor behaviors and dealing with emotional impulses to accentuate their positive impact. Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age by Erik Schaeffer and David Sovie... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
happening inside the mind of someone with an eating disorder is that person thinks I've lost control. That person thinks I'm fat. And everything is filtered through a lens of, I'm not good enough. There aren't a lot of positive words... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
later, Bower helped lead it to a position of international growth and stature. To a great extent, Bower - who began the practice of hiring MBAs directly out of business school - is responsible for creating the entire management consulting... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
opportunity for their business. Now, there are very, very, very few CEOs who do not acknowledge that climate change both, represents a major challenge and a significant opportunity. And who are not actively positioning their companies for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
share ideas on how to increase the social results of their endeavors. The idea emerged from a philanthropy conference held at HBS in the fall of 2009 where the participants responded most positively to conversations with like-minded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Only one brand, Chanel N° 5, now over 80 years old, holds strong market positions across the world. People in different countries like quite different scents. In the words of one executive, “American women tend to prefer fresh, clean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
some of Bok’s criticisms were on target. Better than most, he understood that the School could not simply count on momentum to retain its leadership position into the future. In fact, in August 1979, he had written a fourteen-page letter... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
the pie. On the execution side, we went with a two-year average. If you’ve had high execution marks over the previous two years, that’s going to factor positively in terms of how much of the pie you’re going to get. Not only do we want to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies. Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who chairs the project’s Leadership Council and chairs the GSG (Global Steering Group) for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust, says that all companies deliver some positive impact through... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
important or patriotic act than voting,” said Palandjian, Chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, in a press release announcing the initiative. “I’ve always been troubled by routine low turnout in U.S. elections and wanted to find a way to have a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
introducing creative ideas that address endemic problems such as poor access to clean drinking water and electricity, substandard housing, and illiteracy, they are in a position to engender goodwill and influence how the world feels — and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
for myself.” Over the next 35 years Weinstein held leadership positions at various arts organizations, including as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, executive director of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center (with a view of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon