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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
mix of oversight, decision-making, and advisory roles. “Boards are most likely to be effective,” they write, “if their structures are design-ed to suit the circumstances of their company and the role the board has elected to play.” For... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
about how best to structure our time as a learning team. Do we do summary write-ups? If so, how long should they be? How much time do we want to spend discussing each case? In the beginning, you’re trying to figure out the case method and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
time it takes to handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." Wingspanbank.com HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
Plan, Drake is leading a comprehensive strategy for inclusive excellence throughout the HBS community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other constituents. Organized by HBSAAA copresidents Sara Clarke (MBA 1997) and Lewis Long (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
crowdfunding. We asked Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001), a partner at The Bridgespan Group—nonprofit advisor to mission-driven organizations and leaders—and author of “Galvanizing Philanthropy” (Harvard Business Review, November 2009), to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
by 300 percent in one year by altering the company's profit structure and leveraging its balance sheet. Among other reengineering moves, Robinson reduced fixed costs significantly by centralizing the firm's financial operations. Eager to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), which supports its seventeen hundred members with a range of financial and business-related services for physicians in group and individual practice. The MGPO's mission is... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
for information. "The whole point of this segment of the course was to say: 'Let's come down from the mountaintop and talk about how real managers get the work of the organization done,'" says Garvin, who decided that for this exercise... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
truly competitive environment. She suddenly found herself making decisions for the largest and most widely dispersed organization she had ever managed, and she "wanted to confirm that some of my own actions and instincts were on target."... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Rosabeth, you mentioned the structure and design of the organization as possibly contributing to the current problems. What improvements can be made? Kanter: We need more external information — both... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
just absolutely wonderful,” says Janet Stark (MBA 1982), Board Chair for the HBSWANY, and organizer of the event. “After the play, we all just circled around Gloria and had this great conversation. She stayed with us for a while, and even... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
would be reflecting on the success of another sold-out Global Alumni Conference (GAC), but as many of you already know, we made a very difficult decision to cancel the conference scheduled for March in Buenos Aires. We extend our deepest thanks to the conference View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
partnership programs that connect alumni with non–profit organizations in need of private–sector expertise on specific consulting projects. Now the HBS Clubs of South Florida and Minnesota have established their own “Community Partners”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
education and say that they are only providing opportunities,” writes Tamara Heimur (HBS ’10). “On the other hand I was impressed with the CEOs’ commitment to continually increasing reach and decreasing interest rates. It highlighted the important issue of scale, which... View Details