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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
cliff. A common response is to circle the wagons; to anchor down on the core values that have defined your products; and to become very inward... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
Be clear with partners when it comes to delineating between areas of responsibility and ownership. And make sure that everyone has an equity stake early on. Any mistakes? “I hired people with outstanding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
professor Bill Sahlman recalls that there were only 4 faculty members devoted to entrepreneurship when he introduced the elective Entrepreneurial Finance in 1985. “Now we have 35. The Entrepreneurial Manager became part of the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
early-stage information technology companies. "We had some good luck early on, and that made it easier to raise subsequent funds," says the humble New Jersey native, a Princeton graduate who, along with his wife, Lynn, is raising their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
was completed on July 1. HBS chief of operations David Moffatt describes the site as an easy one to work with. "We are operating in a limited space, but because it's an on-campus site, we don't have the kind of constraints one would find,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
Tony Klemmer Photo courtesy of NAATE Plans for a second career took an abrupt turn in just one day for Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) when, after a quarter century of successful startup launches, he left the business world to pursue personal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
what I’m doing”; in other words, guiding people to full expression. But I wasn’t ready to listen. My response was, “Yeah, no. I went to Wellesley... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
learning — typically supplies and field trips. Donors review the proposals online and choose to fund the project they like. DonorsChoose is unique among philanthropies in that every dollar goes to the chosen... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
India, for instance, it’s like having access to an agricultural extension agent at any time—at no cost. Most often, any given question that a farmer submits to PAD (by text or voicemail) has been raised... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
away from the day-to-day responsibilities of overseeing a division of a huge multinational corporation, she looks forward to returning to the challenges of running a business.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
discipline and focus and HBS with opening up the world of business to him.” Thankful for the opportunities both experiences offered him, Waite continued to serve in the US Army Reserve for 20 years after... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty, superficial responses that really only create enemies. If someone blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
which all technological shifts are.” During the winter term, Henderson will coteach the first-year course Leadership and Corporate Account-ability, which she says has broad relevance to her work. “LCA really looks at the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
answer, according to Silk and his colleagues, lies in a given medium's ability to reach efficiently - and hold onto - an advertiser's target audience and to be flexible and... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
leader to shoulder blame rather than search for excuses. Everything that happens is ultimately the leader’s responsibility anyway, and promptly taking ownership of a difficult situation means that you can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb... View Details