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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
transforming IBM, talked about the key strategic decisions he made when he took the helm of the struggling company in 1993. Initially reluctant to take the top post, Gerstner, an outsider, determined that it was important to keep the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
score 1600? It is the top score. There are 138 questions on the test. You can miss one or two and still score 1600. What percentage of students score 1600? Each year, 2.3 million kids take the test and 650 score 1600 — that’s .03 percent!... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
including travel, banking, telecommunications, and credit card services. Not satisfied with dominating Japan’s e-commerce landscape, Mikitani believes the company’s future lies in taking its online expertise global. Since 2008, Rakuten... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
someone is taking pictures outside.” He called the command of the International Space Station “a unique leadership experience”—not because the team is floating in outer space, but because he is charged with leading an international group... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
your view, and that is important to you personally. For heaven's sakes, take advantage of that freedom and use it well. So you don't retire from something. You go to something of deep personal and social significance and do your best, do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
and advice of the world’s top professional investors. LIFE: A Handbook for Our Loved Ones By Rudy Chen Setiawan (MBA 1996) Amazon Kindle “Set your life on fire, and seek those who fan your flames.” —Rumi The most important act of our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
SHIRAZI: Predicts that HBS graduates will hold top leadership positions in more than two dozen nations over the next thirty years. Saquib Shirazi (MBA ’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, takes globetrotting in stride. A member... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
quarter-century of HBS startups? To celebrate the New Venture Competition’s 25th anniversary, we asked some past participants about the hardest lesson they’ve learned as an entrepreneur—and what it looked like to learn it. The 2022 finale will View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
whether it's going to be awesome and you're going to miss it if you don't take this risk. And I think about that advice all the time. All of this will find its place in your story. And ultimately, you will... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
"baby-boomer" audience, iVillage launched its first Web site, Parent Soup (www.parentsoup.com), in 1995. The popular site offers online visitors a combination of expert and peer advice on child rearing, as well as resources such as... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
but also help each other. "It is a painful truth that one of the obstacles to more women gaining power has sometimes been women already in power," Sandberg writes. Other sections of Lean In take a broader look at women's... View Details
- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Don’t give up your power
Author, singer, and Morgan Stanley vice chairman Carla Harris (MBA 1987) advises people—women in particular—to take lessons from mistakes and move on. In this interview she offers advice on respecting... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
Development. Sectionmates also broke into small groups for a paying-it-forward exercise in general reciprocity, during which they could ask for and receive assistance from classmates as they embarked on their new paths. Advice from alumni... View Details
- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
“groupthink,” and maintain a moral compass, he counseled. And perhaps most importantly, Paulson said, establish work-life balance. He concluded that the challenges of his new government job would offer him ample opportunity to take that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler's School of Thought
accomplished leader in academia, business, and philanthropy—and the namesake of the School's Spangler Center—he has also been valued for his counsel by several HBS Deans. In light of that role, and in the spirit of Commencement as a traditional time for View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
building great products," Siebel told the audience. "We make as many mistakes as anyone else, but this is our vision: Build a high-quality business. Do whatever it takes to make our customers satisfied. Be a market leader, a great place... View Details