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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Business) Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love by James Reed (MBA ’90) and Paul G. Stoltz (Portfolio Trade) Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
people who are going to take a sabbatical, especially if they're feeling burnt out, they're going to go from a really high level of intensity of your life and your job to something different than that. I think it's dangerous to go from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
Bill Falcon for a few issues before Ted Anthony assumed the job in 1962. Anthony, who had publishing experience in the military and at the Small Business Administration in Washington, kept the Bulletin on a steady course for nearly twenty... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
employers to check a job applicant’s legal status. He also opposes awarding amnesty and supports building a wall along strategic sections of the U.S.-Mexico border. Edwards’s centrist leanings can also be seen in his votes with the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that director and the whole production... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Mosul. We supported the infantry soldiers who were securing the smaller towns on the roads leading to Baghdad from Kuwait. I didn’t get to fly, but I was given a leadership role. There was a lot of gratification in knowing that I was able to motivate people and get the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
great career to be an entrepreneur. It's something you do out of necessity if you haven't gotten a job in the other sectors. And that needs to change as a way to continue attracting the best talent, the best entrepreneurs that want to do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
more comfortable and capable of experimenting at scale and increased its adaptive capacity. That would make me very happy, because who knows what the future will bring. On January 1, you begin a one-year sabbatical. What are your plans after that? Before I became dean,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
tedious administrative jobs in organizations." But I found the teaching at HBS a lot more animated and accessible than the teaching at Harvard College. The College was relentlessly academic, and few academics have the outgoing... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
company is doing a good job preparing for Y2K, you may have essential business links to companies that aren't. Is my desktop vulnerable? Yes. A computer is different from most other consumer products. When you buy a new car, you trade in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
school fresh out of Yale. "I should have listened to my father," he admits with a wry smile. After four years of "just reading and writing" as an insurance company lawyer, Shafir, then newly wed to his wife, Lorna, entered HBS in 1982. His first View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
his fellow activists didn’t know at the time how scared the Communist government was of the voices of mere students and the resources it committed to silencing them. Attempts were even made to expel Maj from the university and when that failed, to prevent him from... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
homeless and getting support through the Covenant House of Georgia for their education. Others are adults who are juggling jobs and families, as well as the challenges of the pandemic. Of the 25 mentors, 18 are HBS alumni. The remaining... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
or job descriptions. Every day, new opportunities are coming up at Serena Ventures; we’re thinking of multiple timelines and different lines of business. I might get a text from Serena about a deal we haven’t talked about in a while, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details