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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
recognizing that feeling as something to pay attention to. At Wellesley, I had a similar intuitive experience when I switched majors from neuropsych to economics. That change was scary because it was late in the game, but the decision led... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
and care-giving decisions that, left unaddressed, lead to continual crisis management. Despite the sea change under way in health-care delivery, caregiving will remain high touch, not high tech. Let’s spare our caregiving employees the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
the very "soul" of e-business in a rapidly emerging e-culture. E-culture, she writes, "involves better ways of leading, organizing, working, and thinking." It is an environment in which individuals must evolve if they are to become leaders who can execute quick,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
a series established by Dean Kim B. Clark to increase awareness of HBS faculty research and to encourage cross-unit collaboration and discussion at the School. Roberto de Mendoza (MBA '74), vice chairman and director of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc., served as the... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
(MBA 1986), founder of Second Opinion Wealth Management and author of five novels, including The Pell Heist (2018) and Windfall (forthcoming) MUST READ Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) by Tomas... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
about, say, the allocation of roles and decision making, and applying them to his life. For Wasserman, the meeting was revelatory. Anyone—founders or not—could gain all these profound life lessons from the counterintuitive ways that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
MBA alumni, with the balance divided evenly among AMP, OPM, and PMD graduates. Participants got acquainted Sunday at a reception and dinner, and classroom discussions began Monday morning with Associate Professor Michael Watkins, author... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
a wealth of real-company examples, the authors demonstrate a set of practical frameworks for managing a global innovation network. Corporate Catalyst: A Chronicle of the (Mis)Management of Canadian Business from a Veteran Insider by Tony... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
emerged. Next, they analyze the origins of the four drives mentioned above and discuss their role in everyday life. The authors then look at the drives in terms of their relationship to human culture, emotions, and skills. Finally, they... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) is a retired business executive and author of The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond. In this interview, she talks about using her position as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
you have a targeted process that accumulates knowledge before the critical decisions need to be made," writes Iansiti, "you're going to run into all sorts of problems." Technology Integration provides an intensive guided tour that... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
companies. With developments such as the recent Supreme Court decision allowing companies to spend more freely on political campaigns, the importance of corporate governance is likely to grow. Many boards are effective, and even on flawed... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Ukraine will likely intensify, roiling energy markets further and raising questions about the future of globalization, says HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal. Putin’s iron fist vs. Zelensky’s moral clarity Historian and HBS professor Nancy Koehn, View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
particularly apparent in the area of trading, where seconds count and system crashes are disastrous. "When Schwab goes down for four hours, it winds up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal," explains McFarlan, who recently View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
banker, for instance, who authored "A New World for Women" in 1936, concluded, "It is inevitable that more and more women will occupy places of responsibility in our country's banks." Indeed, the Bulletin provides a window on the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
whole approach to decision making. It made me want to get the smartest people I could find who disagreed with me so I could stress test my opinions. I used to think there was making money and there was philanthropy. Then I realized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors found four distinct types of highly successful “business builder” personalities―the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the... View Details