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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
society more broadly,” observes HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. While celebrated for their public accomplishments, the honorees’ private lives reflect their devotion to family and community. We present glimpses of both in photos by Pulitzer... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
fate we have to accept, Sambvani explains. Better voice technology and AI-based tools already exist, and some large organizations are deploying them in modern, innovative systems that don’t routinely confound their customers. “But most mid-market businesses can’t... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
more value to our membership and the general public?" says HBSAB's co-president Gautam Ramchandani (MBA 1977). "Our three major priorities this year are to reflect, learn, and act so we can craft a better future for the HBS Association of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
methodologies differ so much that “the best” school in one ranking can fall far behind in others. So while the rankings game is great for selling publications, it’s confusing for readers. Bloomberg... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs previously ignored.” Leger is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
could be many things,” says senior lecturer and PELP cochair John Jong-Hyun Kim, whose daughter performed community service at Pine Mountain during her gap year. In its variety, he adds, Marietta’s multifaceted approach may provide “a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
MBA elective curriculum and teaches Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations. Salter believes that "all great courses at HBS communicate performance hypotheses - notions about what makes View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
losses, at EMRI’s quarterly board meetings he focuses on the organization’s very human bottom line. “We track the number of lives saved. It’s like our earnings per share for the quarter,” Palepu explains. “It’s a very inspiring statistic... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
industry is reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal - and inexpensive - chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Ward - once synonymous with out-of-control crime rates, gang warfare, antiquated public housing, crumbling schools, and degrading poverty - have begun to show indications that there may be a way out of the hopeless downward spiral. In their 2000 book Comeback Cities: A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
accommodate the balancing act of raising three children. Married to Brad Greenwald (MBA 1990), the Denver native decided that a career in writing would offer the best chance to create her own schedule. But what to write about? After keeping a detailed “happiness”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
to be a doctor, but over time I became interested in larger health-care systems issues, too.” After graduating from Harvard College, where he started a health clinic for homeless people in Harvard Square, Jain completed three years at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self. Those principles are what she calls her five Ps: Purpose, process, people, presence and peace. And in this episode of Skydeck, contributor April... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
second-year course Entrepreneurial Finance. “With a new venture, the early days are not so bad because you pick off the early adopters who are willing to pay the price because they need the service. I’m rooting View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
consumed immediately, but have 30-plus days to pay for it. He just smiled. Ian Arnof (MBA 1963) My wife, Karen, and I had the pleasure of taking a Danube River Journey on The Royal Crown with Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
the 1950s were purchased under this process called contract buying. My grandparents had to buy a home this way. They first bought their home and they were not allowed to get a mortgage. And so for the first four years, they were View Details