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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
carrier-based jet fighter program. When introduced, the first jet aircraft were underpowered and in many ways inferior to propeller-driven aircraft of the time. This book examines the Navy’s internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to its style of warfare as View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
was evident in the questions put to a panel composed of this year's winners of the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. These distinguished graduates were selected for their contributions to their companies and communities as View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020.... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Download Jim McNerney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Earns BA, American Studies, Yale University 1975 Earns MBA 1975 Joins Procter & Gamble, Brand Manager 1978 Joins... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense of the average View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
about what exactly it means to be human. When it comes to just pure juicy reading, it is hard to beat Anderson Cooper’s dive (with historian Katherine Howe) into his ancestors, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
pursue anti-racist initiatives in the areas of policing reform; safe ballot access and civic participation; and economic inclusion. The initiative was spearheaded by six Black HBS alumni members of the Leadership Now Project, which was founded 2017 by HBS alumni to fix... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
directors hold large blocks of stock in public corporations, those firms experience increased performance relative to competing firms whose board members lack such significant holdings. "Sophisticated large-block owners are beneficial to company performance," Kang... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
difficult problems and big issues. But they do need to be supported. As the old proverb says, ‘We all drink from wells we didn’t dig.’ Americans should understand that what these people and their agencies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
he calls “the cross-country test.” To wit: “Are you really going to want to wait eight hours to recharge your vehicle?” says Camargo, who positioned the first Cadillac hybrid for the American market in 2013 before joining Cox. “Probably... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
situation for the world. We can — and we must — correct it.” When Corruption Beckons: What Would You Do? Professor Lou Wells has written a number of “caselets” depicting actual bribery and corruption situations. Here are summaries of... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
that kind of one-sided knowledge. The Farmers Business Network (FBN), cofounded by Baron, agriculture investor and entrepreneur Amol Deshpande, and several farmers, has emerged in a period of particular crisis for the American farmer.... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
students. It’s huge. At the federal level, our value add is providing resources like the American Rescue Plan, as well as the guidance and partnership for spending those dollars. We accumulate and share best... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna