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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.” So how did “Taran Swan at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
won kudos when it was published last fall by The Free Press. A History Book Club selection and an alternative choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, it is now going into a second printing. Thanks to Strassler's efforts, generations of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the "female baggage"- including feelings of inadequacy, a tendency to dwell on her own mistakes, indecisiveness, and a constant desire to please others - that she brought to the job. Graham, who is 81, dismissed the idea that she is a role model, explaining to the HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
line of generic foods to be sold in the United States - and had spawned his first nationwide trend in the process. His brandless foods concept helped propel Star from fourth place in Greater Boston sales into a tie for first in 1982.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
covers an impressive amount of territory, for the energetic Juliber, it's only a start. "One of the main challenges for a global company is how to accelerate the transfer of experience and information from one part of the world to another," explains Juliber, who, after... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 30 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
and general manager of the East Coast Division of Nordstrom, Inc.; and Ralph C. Thomas III, associate administrator of NASA. "We negotiate with the companies to sponsor the cost of the dinner meeting for the MBA students, and then we have... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example, sound planning generally requires... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 05 May 2015
- News
Alumni in London Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
rules and oversight, they are driving up reliance on regulation far beyond anything that is rationally sustainable and, in the process, generating new risks. If we truly want to prevent another financial crisis, we need a corrective... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
generating unmotivated and distracted students. To rebuild the educational enterprise to better meet those needs, the authors lead readers through a series of key processes: goal-setting, organizing teams, designing the best experiences... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- News
Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
and general management consulting services — all free of charge. “The five CAP volunteers assessed our agency carefully and gave me the kind of information I hadn’t had before,” says Alston-Follansbee. “They helped us realize that what we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
the initial workflow issues have been resolved. On-site finish work turned out to be a major problem. It’s the general contractor’s job to hook up the utilities and finish interior details once Greentech assembles its modular structures.... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
$140 million. Rogers offered three other specific tips for keeping a business afloat at this time. “Focus on generating new revenue through new products or services, get expenses under control, and load your balance sheet with cash so... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University affairs at HBS. He adds: “This is Harvard coming together to innovate in ways that none of us could do in isolation.” Learn more by visiting analytics.hbs.edu. PRIMO:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an estimated 40 million new records and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
experienced," says Smith. "It's important to establish the fundamentals of general management early in one's career, but sometimes there aren't any precedents to follow. You're simply trying to meet challenges on a day-to-day basis."... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
twenty employees to twelve hundred over a quarter century. As a cofounder of the HBS African-American Student Union, she was a pioneer in helping the School become more diversified. Later generations "told me they were grateful I had... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Photography by Owen Egan Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) was thinking about the health of future generations of his family when he went searching for records of his relatives in Poland. Prompted by the diagnosis of his nephew, Mark Diamond... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken