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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
final climb in a misty rain. The temperature was 5 degrees; the winds were blowing at 30 miles per hour. By this point they all knew each other quite well. Most of the chocolate had already been consumed. Canadian Graeme Johnson (MBA ’95) praised the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of rationalizing poor perfor-mance... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary and decision-making power into the field. Along with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
is almost certainly the first thing I am asked about anytime I meet people in both social and professional settings. I am a brand ambassador 24/7." How do you use what you learned at HBS today? "The biggest lesson from HBS that keeps coming back to me is the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
Sarbanes-Oxley. We’ve also made changes in corporate governance — mandating independent audit committees, independent compensation committees, and independent nominating and corporate governance committees. All this has been part of a process of shifting the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... 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 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
inevitable, in its progress. Not long ago, 80 percent of heroin users began by first abusing prescription opioids. Now it’s estimated that 40 to 60 percent of addicts are skipping prescription drugs and going straight to heroin. At the same time, fentanyl, a synthetic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
and cutting wages, this will reduce the purchasing power of Americans, shrink the tax base, and eventually undermine the business environment in America. Conversely, if workers get higher pay while American-based companies are not able to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
through asynchronous learning. The other exciting thing would be our ability to reach many more learners and think about ways in which we might support lifelong learning for our MBA students in a powerful way. In that context, I think the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
planning for new technology that would allow us to do powerful things at the heart of the kind of high-quality education we were committed to providing. Our progress to date is remarkable. You mentioned the use of video in cases. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Black Panther made more than $1.3 billion globally. (A sequel is due out this fall.) With the data points that Cohen collected, her team put words to their purpose: “To inspire a better world through the power of stories.” That forms the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
these problems. When we stepped back from our discussions and considered what was being said, it was clear that the golden goose—global market capitalism—was at risk from the impact of an interrelated set of forces more powerful than the... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Goldenberg’s experience. He still recalls lessons from Professor Youngme Moon on discontinuous thinking, from her course on consumer marketing. He also remembers a welcome message from then-Dean Kim B. Clark about being “warmhearted and tough minded.” “It’s a View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
up to the ideals instilled in him by his forebears. Several months after their father died of cancer eight years ago, the Tisch brothers split his office into two, each taking half. “Sometimes when I’m struggling with an issue—whether it is business or personal,” he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
content—including no disruptive advertising. “We’re not trying to eradicate YouTube,” says Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor (MBA 2004). “We’re offering creators a different environment and business model that we think will be much more powerful by... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
do get sh-t done! To ask bold questions. Yes, we are comfortable asking for directions. Empathy: We tend to see the full person, as well as the client or colleague. Perhaps this is most important of all. Enduring power in the workplace... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
probably come up with something that looks a lot like COVID-19.” Nevertheless, Yellen was encouraging: “I know Hispanic workers can power our recovery—potentially in an even bigger way than a decade ago.” Perez shares Yellen’s optimism.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie