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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
presence “somewhere” in Asia and “somewhere” in Europe in addition to our offices in New York. Facing the same concern as you—how do we make sure that our value proposition and brand remain constant across the regions—we took our time and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
(Palgrave Macmillan) make clear, the blowout that killed 11 people and created an ecological miasma could have been prevented by any one of dozens of managers or executives speaking up about eight serious signs of trouble. Authors LaRue... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
operators exist in the countries where Roshan is staking its claim. But it will focus in part on the rural areas that have the lowest service penetration and the fewest social services, a strategy that fits well with the company’s dual... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
effectively with each other, with executives and stakeholders, to ensure all views on key topics such as conduct, risk and strategy, are canvassed, heard and evaluated. While Part 1 is mainly about why directors should be View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
beginning to recognize many of the same concerns that other sectors face, such as the effect of work-life balance issues on women and the “double bind”—the tension between the perception of competence and likability. “What’s different... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
fault," she says. "And what we've learned here is that maybe it is in your best interest to apologize. If it helps when you are clearly not at fault, it may also help when blame is ambiguous." —Dan Morrell "I'm Sorry About the Rain!... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
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economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. In their recent... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
partner with NGOs like CARE International and Fauna & Flora International. We’ve moved from a paternalistic to a participatory approach to community development and social investment. Despite those efforts, some critics say Anglo has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
oxygen of cash or the oxygen of investment, and that was there in Silicon Valley. I mean, we talk about it coming with Sand Hill Road in the 1960s, but it was there in a different guise from very, very early on, from the early 20th... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
educating great people who are concerned about the world and who understand that the way they manage a business will affect their employees, customers, and their communities. It would be hard to do that if... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. There's this Teddy Roosevelt quote about struggle that I came across recently that I really like. Roosevelt said, "There's never... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
(Rupa Publications) Thirty women in power answer questions that confront all working women, from how best to balance the personal and the professional to how to dismantle gender biases. The essayists consider seminal issues that concern... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the heels of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. These events heightened his concern and commitment to help find solutions to the troubles of urban areas. In 1969, he joined the staff of the National... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar