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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending quality time with the family means... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
The idea of human cloning is controversial, but cloning a successful business concept remains as desirable as ever. For HBS assistant professor Steven J. Spear, this pursuit led him to Toyota, whose perennial leadership in quality... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
given to their competitors. Using analytical software that evaluates visual similarities between designs, Gross compared each submission with prior entries by the same designer, and related the similarity to the number and quality of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality
keeping the fund going for future students.” LeBaron professed that he was “always astounded at the quality of these young people,” while McArthur noted that “they seem more worldly wise than we were at the same stage.” “I think they’re... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
could reorder the way a lot of corporations work today. Instead of having 1,000 people in the same office, create localized offices or give people a budget to create an office at home. In doing so, you would significantly improve the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
for IM, voice, and video calls. I always carry my cellphone. What qualities do you think leaders today need? Leaders need to be courageous and fearless. They need to be fast because the time they have to get things done is shrinking. In... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
feel too weak and naked when disruptions come out. It’s a support, a strong one, but surely not an answer. The rest is up to each of us to shape and create.” On the qualities of leadership: “The great leaders of tomorrow will be people... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria
business has served as an important engine of prosperity. But the progress that has been realized highlights yet further the divide between poor and wealthy, the gaps in access to quality health care, and the effects of climate change, to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
face and the strategy that will guide our future success as a worldwide leader in life sciences. The quality of the HBS faculty has been tremendous and has helped our top management to develop a new Novartis mindset and an aligned... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
kids after school. Children need quality after-school activities." After completing her White House service in 1995, Hoit became managing director of Sylvan Learning Systems, a national supplemental education company. With that experience... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
employees. During the Great Depression, Levi Strauss workers were kept on the payroll refurbishing their factory until business picked up. In 1982, when current CEO Bob Haas learned that employees were nervous about distributing AIDS View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
to ourselves.” But given the fact that most startups fail, a potential founder should really consider the lost resources and time, which they could have spent making money. On the other side of the table, Roche suggests that funders should be extra stringent about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
“Venture capitalists admire tenacity and resourcefulness, both qualities that an entrepreneur can and should exhibit from the first e-mail, phone call, or handshake with a VC.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
qualities and characteristics. The average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score for the class entering in fall 2003 was 708. However, the range of GMAT scores is very broad, and there is no minimum score requirement. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
applicants with the greatest potential for leadership. This past year, for example, we interviewed eighteen hundred candidates, including every admitted student. On all dimensions — including academic, leadership and work experience, and involvement in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
overworked, yet there's a huge gap in quality training for them." —Anthony Priest (MBA 1996) Program Specialist, Office of Career and Technical Education, District of Columbia Public Schools Marc Sternberg (MBA 2000) Senior Deputy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success." In research conducted with Ranjay Gulati of Northwestern's Kellogg School, Higgins found that "what matters most when executives are trying to raise money is their professional ties and company connections, their... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross