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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies, Professor Emeritus Heskett... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
Nan Morrison and Sally Wood It takes a village to raise a game-changing non-profit, and Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) and Sally Wood (MBA 1983) have found a community of support among their HBS friends and fellow alumni. "I'm proud of my whole View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
for alumni approaching retirement: Cut back work hours gradually, develop outside interests, and consider serving in local or state government. “You can run for office, make a contribution, and not give up your retirement. MBAs have been schooled in the View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
to help managers navigate the myriad decisions they must make in order to create value from their foreign operations and outperform competitors in an increasingly integrated world. Fortune Tellers: The Story... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you can have a direct and real impact on building a person's self-esteem. That insight impacts the way... View Details
- 05 Jan 2023
- News
6 Business Skills Every Engineer Needs
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with no formal business or 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 Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
operators. Well, you know, elevators used to all have operators. When we automated them we eliminated those elevator operator jobs. Does that mean we shouldn't have put in automated elevators? No. Of course not. But what it does mean is... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co., 1969-77, 1980-85 State of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
of a sudden I became the credit manager in the worst economic times we'd had since the Depression. I'M THE ONLY PERSON in my family who didn't grow up in Seattle. I've always felt I can walk away anytime, even today. IT'S A MISCONCEPTION... View Details