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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
peacekeeper?" We take thousands of young recruits every month and train them to operate some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world under some of the most challenging conditions imaginable.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
environment they operated in." 14 Enrollment in his Manufacturing course, Doriot cautioned, entailed a "particular and superior form of responsibilities as businessmen, as citizens," and he urged graduates View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
Mardi Gras and returned to class at 8:00 one morning with a "Hurricane" cocktail from O'Brien's concealed in a shopping bag. Or for his back-row neighbor who kept putting his head down on the desk View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
this month’s column. Like some other trends, these are traveling from West to East. As Scocimara put it, “companies are adapting, and often the ones that are most threatened are adapting fastest. Retail is a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
idea suffered from both density and doubt. In short, we wondered not only what its applications really looked like in practice but also if it could ever really live up to its hype. Those questions are at the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
get a call from a consultant who knows all about your impending bid and offers to help. The clear message is you are not going to win unless you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
resources, or finance. By exploring the emergence and evolution of these positions, the authors examine the ways in which power at the apex of complex organizations is structured through roles and relationships, in response View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
alumni working in health care. It has since grown to a global membership of more than 800 alumni and offers substantive programming and networking opportunities year-round. “I founded the club because I was pursuing a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Technology Ventures. I think taking that class was one of the most important things, other than BEI and the Energy & Environment Club, that I did while at HBS. The class can help those interested in the energy sector learn lessons from... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
executive wanted to take on the opioid crisis. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Jim, your organization, the Georgia Prevention Project, the name of it says it all. Getting people who are addicted to drugs View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the way society at large views the role of nonprofit organizations and their management. "There's a growing willingness to work together across the nonprofit, business, and government sectors View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
of what the future might hold. For Kidwai, those dreams led to the United States, where in 1982, she became the first woman from India to graduate View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience,... View Details