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- 01 Mar 2017
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Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
in 1995. Linking this with Nielsen viewer panel data on over fifteen hundred individuals, Anand and Shachar developed a model to determine how well TV viewers' choices of programming “matched” their likely viewing preferences (based upon their demographic profile and... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
billion mark), they would think twice before writing that check,” editorialized the Harvard Crimson on May 9. The study is expected to take months, and most observers figure the idea will quietly die. But that leaves plenty of time for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the idea just struck me: ‘Why don’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual lines when asked to take an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
get to see it firsthand. Kim thinks of Jervon Lemon, a scholarship administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Children of Fallen Patriots stepped in to help fund her college education. Today, she speaks to the kids... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
presentations. Kawasaki's wry observations of the current business scene were relayed with self-deprecating humor and great panache. His list of the "Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs" included: In year three, we're going to do $75 million... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Connecting with Clubs
time for alumni to come forward with ideas to achieve that goal. If you have suggestions or observations you want to share with the committee, George Novak would like to hear from you. Contact him at gnovak@amp153.hbs.edu. View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
says. Yet maintaining that healthy lifestyle was a challenge when Flynn was traveling. And she knew she wasn’t the only one facing this problem. As a consultant within the food industry, she observed that many consumers were asking for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
delivered directly to your car? Frist and classmate Nick Alexander (MBA 2015) began to explore an answer to that while they were still at HBS, spending one cold afternoon observing hurried customer interactions at a gas station in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“Rufina, my host mom, lives in a house with a courtyard, a Ford Explorer, a full kitchen, and running water. Not too rough and definitely not what I expected,” writes Michael Newton (MBA ’09) in his journal, a requirement of the Mexico program. “Time seemed to move... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
percent of the class would have known what he was talking about. “Today, it’s more than 50 percent. Students understand that those are important considerations that are going to affect their organizations and their careers,” observes... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
resources department from a paper-pushing backwater to an entity that is strategically incorporated into the district’s overall mission. “One observation that we made early in PELP is that school systems have essentially not changed their... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
on the rest of your life," said Klemmer. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Yet the success he had observed at the charter school convinced him that top-quality education was... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development—regenerative biology, as well ethical issues such as “playing God” by virtue of DNA editing. “When we write the history of the early 21st century, I think we will remember this time as being a period when we achieved absolutely transformative discoveries in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie