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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
can benefit from the 'cool' aura around our product," notes Grubman. "You don't have to play football to become a fan." But HBS associate professor Juan Alcacer, coauthor of a case titled "The Globalization of the NFL," forecasts... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
what Motley calls “the grand plan.” After HBS, he spent two decades working for the chemical, glass, and coatings company PPG Industries, living in eight cities along the way. He finished his corporate career at the Pittsburgh-based... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
just seems like there's a lot going on in kind of this part of our life. Any advice in all your research that you've really gleaned from managing this moment in time for those of us who feel like we're at the peak busyness both of family life and View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
appearing in major news magazines. Then came a state visit from U.S. President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) in March, the same month HBS inaugurated its global research center in Mumbai (see sidebar, page 29). “Everything you hear about India... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Nearly 600 years after the closure of the storied Silk Road trade route between East and West, 44 second-year MBA students... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book?... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
33-year-old Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) is making his name on: It presents Armstrong, typically portrayed as a postage-stamp hero, as a complex man who staked a nation’s place on the moon—and in history—at enormous personal cost. “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
accepted to an MBA program on the East Coast, and they had recently relocated. After some discussion with leadership, they realized that her positioning in Eastern Standard Time Zone was perfect for the team, which had people in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
hooked.” Scholarship with Relevance Condo says he “bumped into” the idea of a pursuing career in academia in the early 1990s, while earning his master’s at INCAE, Latin America’s renowned business school. INCEA uses case-method teaching... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Cofounder & Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1953 B.A., American Studies LIFELONG LESSON FROM... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Innovator’s Dilemma, Second Edition By Charles A. O’Reilly, III and Michael L. Tushman, Baker Foundation Professor; Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and Charles B. Thornton Chair, Advanced Management View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
immutability remains. From Mexico in the north to Brazil and Argentina in the south, Latin America and its five hundred million people still provide astonishing contrasts in geography, culture, and lifestyle. According to HBS alumni and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
more management training, I could better help those organizations,” Van Gerpen recalls. “I was drawn to HBS because it seemed to recognize the importance of the nonprofit sector.” After graduating, she worked for eight years in Boston, as... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
Gretchen Howard (MBA 2002) came to HBS in part because she had a story in her mind about how her career would start: It was 2000, the apex of the dotcom bubble. She would move to Boston, study business,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy officer at an insurtech company... View Details