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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
committees to be in the driver's seat when making decisions about the amount and form of their CEO's pay package. While the committees would certainly take a CEO's input on his... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
general management. It was a school that was associated with developing leaders who would go out and run large, complex enterprises or build new entrepreneurial ventures. It was about educating the kind of people whom I always had... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
the case method pedagogy “so relevant to making you a better leader.” Ferrara was so inspired by the transformational experience the School provided that he has been a regular contributor to the HBS Fund since earning his MBA View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
leading a life sciences company when the pandemic hit. The ability to make such high-stakes decisions is necessary training for the kind of work these students will do. Chandra anticipates that graduates... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
collectively, to the company’s goals. “When it comes to decision making and communication, HBS taught me that, while there is never a ‘right answer,’ effective leaders must... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
master," he says admiringly. After college, Keen served as a management trainee for Bath Iron Works, the Maine shipbuilding firm. Guided by the Native American philosophy that "any decision you make should... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
their capability to start a business six months from now, but also prepare them to think through entry decisions that will happen down the road. Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration; Peter O.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
prepares students to lead in a data-driven and digital world, to seek business opportunities in new technologies, to lead across differences, and to build sustainable businesses." The Dean also made note of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
into these outliers began in the late 2000s, after teaching the Malden Mills case in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Most in the class believed Feuerstein had made a grave mistake; the View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
gotta go. "His point was that we were talking, talking, talking. Let's make a decision and go," says Beeninga. "But Gerry was also someone who really listened, instead of just... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
partisan issues. But we do advance science and document the consequences of decisions that we make as a society. And while businesses like GE,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
William Shatner of Star Trek fame starring in a series of quirky radio and TV ads for the company, that decision has proved to be an inspired one. Most recently, Brier has focused on Priceline's plans to... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
dividends and compounding matter; explains options-trading techniques that will be beneficial no matter what the market does; analyzes real-life examples of investing opportunities; and provides tips on how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
successful turnaround management is to try to make the least bad decision based on imperfect and incomplete information,” Tisch says. “The case method helped prepare me to do... View Details