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- 22 Oct 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
environment is very meaningful at this time in my life,” observes van Caldenborgh, who spends five or six days a week at Voorlinden. “When I see people going through the museum with smiling faces—and coming back several times—I am happy.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
The case was taught to MBA students on March 8, in observance of International Women's Day, in addition to HBS staff, and to 800 alumnae and alumni at the W50 Summit on April 4. "I think it made some complicated issues much more... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
observing great innovation leaders around the globe, Hill and her colleagues distilled lessons to help build organizations that can innovate time and again. “Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation,” Hill says, “because, when you... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
A Visible Example of What’s Possible
College of Business at San Francisco State University. Oubre observes that her HBS degree was the first step to a career that allowed her to “be a visible example so that more people who look like me will see what’s possible.” After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
several units, reorganize relations with customers, and increase diversity at the top of GE's executive ranks, with the company looking "completely different in three or four years." All well and good, but many observers are wondering if... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
Why, observers puzzled, would Wall Street dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971, JD 1970) pony up $55 million to buy New York magazine? Once the standard-setter of the city-magazine genre, the publication no longer seems to be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
power and influence. "The issues discussed had wide relevance," observes program chair Willa E. Seldon (MBA '86). Adds Wilkinson, "The dialogue took advantage of shared experiences from the vantage points of early- through late-career... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
Worldwide, J. Walter Thompson, and Hill & Knowlton. Through his clients, Sorrell has his finger on the pulse of a wide range of industries. Speaking of the Internet, he observed that "the great analogy for the Web is the nineteenth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
have long understood that private markets for risk don't always function adequately on their own, Moss said, adding that "involving the federal government in the management of terror-related risks would in no way constitute a radical departure from the path of American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that although there are many excellent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
trade. Tax cuts.” Norquist dismissed those observers who contend that social and economic conservatives often are a mismatch. “It’s like the physicists who tell you bumblebees can’t fly,” he said. “But bumblebees fly.” View Details
Keywords: Government
- 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 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
surely won’t stop observers from trying, even as reverberations from the most recent crisis continue to be felt. The exhibit will be on display through May 3 and can be viewed online at www.library.hbs.edu/hc/crises/. Railway development... 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 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
Thailand. “A big takeaway for me was the necessity of being on the ground to understand country-to-country differences,” observes Selena Kalvaria (HBS 2013). “It’s not possible to have a catchall ‘emerging markets’ category.” As an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
Precision Medicine. “In medicine and in life sciences there is a silo mentality, and we need some Harvard Business School discipline to help connect the dots,” observes Robert. Agreeing with his dad, Jonathan, who, like his father, has... View Details