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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
Even with Nixon's backing, pressure against her came from inside the administration. When Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) was appointed to recruit women for leadership positions in the Nixon administration, there was a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
means my team is involved in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from purchasing, engaging with food donors, delivery scheduling, product inspection, and assortment optimization.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work? “There... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
plants, birds, fish, and shrimp. Smith’s planned two-day visit to test his products in the Gulf last May turned into an entire summer working with residents whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened. The experience, he notes, “has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic environment. The key for us will be to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After HBS I went to work in consumer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
14.5% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are a result of livestock, and beef and dairy production account for 65% of livestock emissions.” Fix: Give Up Beef. “Given Shake Shack’s position as a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"don't meet everyone's definition of environmental friendliness." Says Johnson, "We're making tough decisions all the time that weigh the human positives of our products against their potential environmental... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
money and ideas flow is, and what the production process involves. Supportive Classmates and Alumni “I got an incredibly good response from many alumni, especially those who were more senior,” Iyer recalls. HBS grads answered her... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
also been collecting quantitative data from companies to determine the effects of diversity and a more inclusive culture on performance. There are many question marks. For example, under what conditions would you expect diversity to have a View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
for decision-making and leadership, in these overlapping public-private realms.” Speaking at luncheon, on the opening day of the conference, Haass, a former State Department official, posited three possible scenarios for the world’s... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
search, digital, print, radio, and television that I would have used for Guinness or Captain Morgan when I was at Diageo. The only real difference between the Postal Service and any of the other brands I’ve worked on is that we are guaranteed to get news coverage, both... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
to become Brazil's largest investment bank. Today the Baker Scholar runs JGP, one of Brazil's leading independent asset management firms. JGP has delivered positive returns every year since its 1998 inception. Thomas A. James, MBA 1966... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man between corporate America and the U.S. government. President... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons