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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
funded. Dodi doesn't think VCs do this intentionally, "It's just that people invest in what they know and in who they are most comfortable with. When it's a choice between one team and another, they'll tend to fund people that are more... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
when people of goodwill take a leap of faith and give others the support they need to be successful." As she sizes up the task at hand, Thomas-Graham is realistic, yet upbeat. "This is a very challenging time for CNBC. I'm responsible for what happens, but I have a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
large should initial innovation teams be? (Just a few people, but include seasoned members.) Should new projects be kept close to the core organization or set up shop on the periphery? (Depends if the innovation builds on core products or... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
company’s scientists and management team have shown “extraordinary commitment” to Cytokinetics. “Attrition is a constant challenge in biotech,” he observes. “The bar for continuity in management is pretty low—usually a few years. But the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
program at HBS. To prepare for that, I teamed up with Howell Jackson at Harvard Law School, who is an expert in financial institutions. We launched the CFS program two years ago, and it gave Howell and me the confidence that we could pull... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
goods are becoming more, not less, concentrated. What about someone like Lady Gaga, whose quick rise to fame came with no previously established brand? What did her management team do right? It's hard to imagine that only 18 months before... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
women—whose careers could provide some insight into these questions. “I wanted to understand what it is that they did to crack the code,” Kraus says of her research. Through interviews, Kraus and her research team found some common... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
THOMPSON: Recipient of the Pub & Galley Fund fellowship sponsored by Michael Cronin (MBA ’77) and the Class of 1948 Fellowship, represented by Crandon Clark (MBA 3/’48). Most students arrive at HBS full of anticipation and eager to embark on their two-year MBA journey.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Society. Conference cochair Yat-Pang Au (HBS '00) was thrilled with the program and the turnout. He praised the organizers, whom he described as a "motivated, capable team of students who rallied together and put in countless hours to... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
difference — places like the Amazon, the Congo, and the coral reefs of Indonesia. And we created integrated teams for each place both to work locally and to deliver global results with related industries and policies. The effect has been... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
all highly successful. But they also share something in common: failure. Steve Schwarzman: You don't grow just by winning games. You have to lose a few to figure out how to make your team better. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
more activist, informed patient, particularly around choice when buying health insurance, and in asserting that the health-care industry must be more innovative. She has long advocated for “focused factories,” health-care providers that would integrate their healing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
moved from Morgan Stanley to HSBC, the team sizes went from a few hundred people to 12,000 and then to 35,000 when I became chair. Diversity and inclusivity were still relatively new concepts then, and it was great to have a part in that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
began to meet the officials and advisers who were attached to my first ministry, and I discovered the varying qualities of those people. Before I went back to Iraq, I spent a lot of time reading about the occupations of Germany and Japan so that I could compare and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
old person's car. They sell to a whole range in their market. And what all these companies do effectively is they have intergenerational design teams that help develop products for older adults. And another area where we see stealth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France Use due diligence in assessing the "people" environment in which you will work: the culture of the company, the team you will join, and the seniors you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
able to accomplish so far, but doesn’t want all the credit. Just about the only topic that lights up his voice more surely than dynamic glass technology is the team he’s hired — including CFO Mike Armsby (MBA 1997) — to make the... View Details