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- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
on the country overall. “And we really understood why companies weren't scaling, and why they weren't growing, and why people were actually having trouble even starting businesses. So we provide a suite of services to any company that we... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
career was with the Air Force, in and out of uniform. His active duty in World War II took him to New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and he later served in Korea. A statistics major, in 1960 he published Sampling in a Nutshell, a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
required; to be able to help people prioritize. I’m not an operator; I’m a business person, but [my job is] getting the Navy Seal leadership to decide what’s important—what they can trade off—and identifying risk and helping them manage risk View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In Memoriam: Hugo Uyterhoeven
World War II, including rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. Uyterhoeven joined the HBS faculty in 1960; his interests focused on business policy and the role of the middle manager. He taught many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
all, Shackleton realized that the crisis he faced was, at its essence, one of life and death. We need to start with that realization today during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shackleton understood that the mission was to get everyone home... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
technology is perfectly suited to do true 3D visualization for everything from education to health care,” says ten Cate. Inspiration: One common question ten Cate gets is whether Tilt Five’s tech will allow people to play the holographic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
many others go on to distinguished careers in financial services. Williams retired in 1986. When the Class of 1939 graduated from HBS, business and employment were still in a slump, salaries were at Depression levels, and View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
trucks and working in a machine shop at a U.S. early-warning ballistic missile detection site. There he discovered that nothing whiled away the cold, dark, and tedium like a good book. By the time he was ready to attend Drexel Institute of Technology, he was hooked... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
expert on commercial banking and a master of case-method teaching, died in November at the age of 94. Williams’s influence on American banking in the post–World War II decades... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
War II?" And I was obviously disarmed by that question because, in fact, I do. But, at the time I didn't reveal that immediately. I said, "I might." And I believe his response then was to give me a little bit more detail View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
becomes an unlikely entrepreneur, supporting her siblings when her father and brother are forced to flee the Taliban. Ashley’s War (2015) centers on the US military’s Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
sector, HBS professor Bill George noted that business leaders often are picked by the wrong criteria. “We mistakenly make choices based on charisma, image, and style when we should be choosing based on... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
The experts are finally seeing the light: most now agree we are in a recession. Harvard professor Martin Feldstein (http://www.nber.org/feldstein), former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, says it could be the worst since World View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
whose father had been stationed in Tokyo after World War II and brought back objects and stories about Japan. “But I also wanted to learn a non-Western language because, in the back of my mind, I thought I might eventually teach English... View Details