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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
business community," Graves said, "continues to reserve the real positions of power for white males." But Graves, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates of Harvard Business School, cautioned that the majority of African... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the evidence. “Across the View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition Take a memo: “My mother used to ask my sister and me to fetch our father from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
board of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra. His father, world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, a frequent Yo-Yo Ma collaborator, often hosted musicians at the family home. Prieto took up violin at an early age and would continue to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Yellowstone. What’s your proudest achievement? Being willing and able to make tough decisions during the credit crisis that, although not perfect, I believe were largely correct. When are you most relaxed? When I’m saltwater fly-fishing.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
elective, as well as a doctoral seminar on Research Design and Measurement. Silk's earlier work focused on developing models and measurement systems to support decisions in the area of new product development and marketing communications.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
that later in life.” Initially, she began on the sly by saving money provided by her husband for groceries, in order to make the garage suitable for the nursery school. When he saw its success, he got on board and bankrolled the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
appliances in recent memory. The first hurdle? “Decision time,” says Nolan. “I have done tons of studies on it, I have got lots of data that says it takes us as long to decide as it does to complete a program.” It’s usually around 18 months. “And it’s torture.” Once a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to participate in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
if they gave me $19. It was a bit of a hard sell.” A self-described shy and quiet kid, Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) went on to become the namesake of the company she cofounded, Angie’s List. (The naming decision was “made when I was 22, and we... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling stories, how they make decisions that affect all students. Similarly, leaders have become teachers in knowledge-centric environments; they can’t just tell people what to do but must help them acquire ideas, information, and skills... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Labor Relations Board then notifies the business owner that a secret ballot election must take place within six weeks. During that time employers wishing to make the case to their employees that they would be better off without a union... View Details