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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
institution posing it. Paulson affirmed his support for the idea in a March 18, 2009, op-ed article in the Financial Times. In January, an international group of leading financiers and academics known as the Group of Thirty (G30) issued a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
individual manager in determining what to do. “There are some deep, enduring ideas in that book that I’m very fond of,” he adds. As Nohria explains in our interview, the book that speaks most directly to his challenges as Dean is In Their... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
navigate the college admissions process, including test prep, college visits, and working with admissions offices. In this interview, Frankel talks about the origins of the idea and what College Match has been able to accomplish. “My son... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
competitors, argue HBS professor David Yoffie and research associate Mary Kwak in Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage. “We picked up on this idea while conducting interviews at Netscape in the summer of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
communities survive that they never unite. So our idea is to have an authentic voice in Sacramento whose only special interest is students. “I think my experience at HBS—and to be quite frank, just the degree—has given me more confidence... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the Middle East. At an event hosted by the HBS Jewish Students Association on April 9, Cohen,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
conference organizer Karen A. Page (MBA '89) put it, to "tell their stories, discover they're not so different from one another, and learn some useful ideas for making their lives and careers more successful and satisfying." It was a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is brainstorming ways to improve the customer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
at their immersion location, students refined their ideas by meeting with potential customers and their sponsor organization. At the end of the week, they presented a final proposal. While focused on students, the FIELD global immersions... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
attempted a career in professional sports, playing for a year with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But the lure of business ultimately proved stronger, pulling Graves to HBS, where he explored his interest in management with the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
fall short, but it’s an important idea that resounds to this day. One of the particular things that the founders did back in the 1990s that turned out to be very important was to put focus on social entrepreneurship—which is about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
mean we work 32 hours now? “We didn’t build the company with the idea that this was a 40-hour expectation. From the beginning, we wanted this to be a place where we set goals that are ambitious but reasonable for us to accomplish... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
didn't really believe that sexism in the workplace existed, and then we went to that meeting, and it was just shocking to me. And so we've had a lot of interesting experiences since we started pymetrics, and I think it's just brought home the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Blendtec hit on the idea of showing the industrial-strength power of the product by filming the blender munching everything from rake handles to an iPhone. The videos racked up 60 million hits on YouTube, and the company’s CEO was soon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
UNIVERSITY Bishop William Lawrence of Harvard University approached George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, to request a $1 million gift to the School. After a few months had passed, Baker famously told Lawrence, “I have lost interest in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
When More Is Better
books. Some of you are incredible adventurers. Others concentrate on humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors. Apart from my personal reading pleasure, there’s a higher purpose at work. My colleagues here at the Bulletin and I are constantly on the prowl for story... View Details
Keywords: meta
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
tanks and installing sewer lines. Obviously our work is not glamorous, but we do tough jobs, and we do them better than anyone else. Most of our improvement ideas come from our employees. Everyone is invited to our company planning... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
the press conference, suggested afterward that the March HBR should be sent to key members of Congress and leading Washington business groups, such as the US Chamber of Commerce. “We need to get action ideas into the hands of decision... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details