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- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
Mencoff: A commitment to meritocracy as a core American value. Photo courtesy Samuel Mencoff “A cross between Walter Wriston and Davy Crockett” is how Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) and his classmates used to affectionately describe HBS finance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
An Admirable CEO
his low-profile leadership, his focus on the company's core areas of expertise, and his success at continuous improvement of CP's operations. Over the years, Mark has steadily boosted profits while controlling costs, so that the price of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
most global businesses succeed because their core brand proposition has value across borders: Wal-Mart’s selection and low prices; McDonald’s convenience, cleanliness, and service; Nike’s commitment to performance.” Jackson believes that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
online digital world, consumers are searching for ways to reclaim these values in many of the industries I’ve studied. What advice would you offer to an endangered industry? If you foresee your core technology is reaching the end of its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Shaking Up the System
noted Sternberg. “The difference-makers here are the adults.” As a teacher, Sternberg felt that children’s education suffered from a dearth of strong school leadership, so he decided to enroll at HBS. “The core tenets of leadership that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
photo by Zhou Junxiang Why does HBS ask alumni to give every year? Our economic model depends on annual giving by alumni and friends. Rather than being added to the HBS endowment, current use gifts are put to use immediately to support View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City
and reunion giving, at estoddard@hbs.edu or 617-495-6881. Membership in the Investors Society, which included nearly 1,200 alumni and friends in fiscal year 2016, is based on a donor’s total outright gifts and pledge payments to the HBS Fund in a given year. The fund... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Ave. that it sunk in.” Levana Sani Jakarta, Indonesia CV: Research officer, Genome Institute of Singapore “My background is in biochemistry, so I took the HBX CORe course over the summer to build my finance skills. I imagined myself... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Can't Knock the Hustle
scavenger hunt—was repeated at HBS in November, with clues left around campus to draw attention to the case and its creators. This so-called HBS Showcase initiative will periodically spotlight new cases by dramatizing some of their central elements, just as the HBS... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray recommended HBX View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
offer. Shaich will remain as CEO of the operation. “Most people [here], they’ve been pushed to think in ways they’ve never been pushed to think about before,” Shaich told the Globe. Though those lessons add up to good management techniques, at their View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Jørgen Knudstorp, just 35 years old when Kjeld promoted him from director of strategic development to CEO in 2004. Knudstorp's slow-it-down approach of managing cash carefully, focusing on core products, and reducing product complexity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
boundaries. Driving the change was the growing feeling that the traditional MBA program was not fulfilling its mission of preparing students for leadership positions in modern organizations. To accomplish its transformation, Yale designed a new first-year View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- News
Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion
by its landscape as its buildings,” said Dean Nitin Nohria. “As a complimentary network of thoughtful open spaces and architecture, the HBS campus supports and nurtures the community in living, learning, convening, and working together to support our View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
first aired during the Oscars, represented an elegant solution to the problem of rampant discounting, albeit one that none of the company’s customers, many of them coupon-loving senior citizens, had asked for. "We insulted the core... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Pradesh's core IT strategy team Previous Consulting Assignments: The World Bank, Nasdaq, UNDP Title of Book Forthcoming in 2004: On Leadership Return to Portraits story or visit his alumni page. View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
there are companies that have done well because of the pandemic. The former are stronger because instead of building a business based on a pandemic that will hopefully end sooner rather than later, you have really built an essential product that improves a View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
inefficiencies, as units within them typically performed below stand-alone peers. Divesting assets to focus on core competencies became the accepted wisdom. Applying this logic, multi-industry conglomerates in other nations, such as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Social Enterprise Pioneer
School’s newest alumni? We passed the mike to six members of a learning team from the Class of 2008 to get their thoughts on collaborative learning and what life is really like at HBS. A Binary Formula Science-based businesses demand new management paradigms. A View Details