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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
performance and submitted recommendations for instituting a formal volunteer recognition program. In the coming year, the board will concentrate on offering real-time feedback on issues presented by the School for alumni input. To assist... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Contacts with Professors This list considers many of the more traditional methods of interaction. I'd also like to highlight some recent developments in an area that has been growing significantly in the last few years at HBS: the HBS Electronic Network. Two years ago,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
electric grid. That same year, the NRC agreed to formally consider Popik and Mott’s spent-fuel pool petition, a regulatory intermediate step that is rare for citizen petitions. The two co-founders recruited top experts on critical... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
for all of Poland?’ He hesitatingly responded, ‘Let’s start small,’” Diamond recalls. “In the next few years, we signed a formal agreement with the archives.” As activities grew, JRI-Poland formed an executive committee and Diamond took... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
initial project is completed. What are your current projects? We have three formal projects in Rwanda, India, and Honduras. In Rwanda, we’re helping Mission Schools International, founded by Brendan Kennealey (MBA ’06), establish a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
technology company that they planned to start. “Having to submit the plan formally and knowing it would be scrutinized forced us to spend a lot more time making sure all the details — especially the financials — were perfect,” says Bang... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
Through this project, Quin became aware of the plight of women in Afghanistan and then worked with Afghan women to help craft the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women, a document that she hopes will be formally incorporated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
to figure out how to operationalize these insights. We have developed two credit products with Sanghamithra that are based on these ideas, and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The first is a graduation loan. For many borrowers, it’s hard to get... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
all over the world.” Oberholzer-Gee envisioned the Boardroom as more of a collaborative effort than a formal presentation. There is no PowerPoint, he stressed. “The task is to draw on the wisdom in the room and for the students to apply... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
cooperation, social situations. And in the end, I got very involved in using game theory for that. Game theory is this formal mathematical theory of strategies used by players in, you know, well-defined games. Trying to solve a problem of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
found that in Asia, the prevalent organizational culture varies among countries. "While we had previously seen that Japanese firms, for instance, typified the clan-like culture symbolized in the Monkey," remarks Deshpandé, "we found that Chinese companies tended to be... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
milestone year with a gala dinner featuring former CEO of GE Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982) as the keynote speaker. According to club president Nancy Schmitt (MBA 1991), registration is underway for the formal event, to be held at the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long tradition of research on family companies, HBS has started... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
program for neuroscience entrepreneurs. The company has assembled a core staff and a roster of more than 140 mentors who are experts in its four areas of focus—product development, operations, clinical and regulatory affairs, and business development. The curriculum is... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
administrative offices in two proposed buildings will accommodate faculty growth and offer space for the return of departments now housed off-campus. 7 Batten Way ETA Unknown A widened and re-landscaped Batten Way will provide a formal... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
clinician.” But if a business career was Fisher’s new goal, and if she was going to become a leader, she soon realized that she needed a more formal education than that she had received in visiting the startups financed by her father. In... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
ownership over time); and family owners (shareholders who are descendants of the firm's founders). "The study suggests that these three owner types have sufficient formal authority, social influence, and expertise to enhance firm... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
and out of here right from the statehouse. We were then ushered up the steps into a large hall and seated across a long table facing 10 high ranking officials with Minister number five in the middle. They were all in full dress. And there were 15 minutes of ceremonial... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
Davis, has only been formally studied by business schools in the last twenty years. That may not seem so remarkable until you realize that "family businesses" include not just the mom-and-pop store on the corner but also the likes of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso