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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
the next phase of his career. “I see business playing an increasingly important role in the aerospace industry, going beyond just having the engineering know-how to build a spacecraft. In the past, spacecraft were primarily built and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
least that number and I'd like to see it even higher." The fund also will enable HBS to deepen its research exploring issues of gender in the workplace. One important issue, says Kordestani, is equal pay. "If more women are graduating... View Details
Keywords: W50
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
manage the impressions they make on others, believes that impression management is an ever-present and important element of organizational life. “People are always thinking about how others view them and how they would like to be viewed.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
the importance of giving patients and physicians more choices. Rather than imposing top-down controls, this approach enables users and providers to customize features such as benefits, levels of coverage, and bundling and payment of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
that continued dependence on foreign oil would eventually cause economic and geopolitical crises, unless certain preemptive steps were taken. They weren’t, and today, amid crises, America confronts the same stark choices it did back then, with one View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Companies (ELC). “I am 100 percent sure that I would not be talking to you today if I hadn’t left marketing,” declares Freyre. It was through McNamara, and others, that Freyre learned the importance of mentorship in the corporate world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
United Way. “It’s very rewarding to be able to support the many organizations important to our community,” says Brierley. Learn how you, too, can make a bequest to HBS. View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy, particularly in the United States, where... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
importance of analyzing issues, listening to others, exercising judgment, and making difficult decisions. For Bence, arriving at HBS was a unique experience. “I was from the Midwest in a class dominated by students from both coasts,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
articulate my personal philosophy during and after HBS." —Shyam Ayengar (MBA 2006) "Storytelling is such an important skill in business. I liked the fact I had to sit down and craft a story that was credible." —Mark Crowther (MBA 2003) View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
THE CHALLENGE: Ana Shukla shares advice on securing venture capital. Karen Kerrigan and Brigitte Baumann (far left, center) stressed the importance of mentors and networks. As a first-time entrepreneur, Ana Shukla launched a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
positive effect: 150 downloads increase sales by one copy. This effect is particularly important because the profitability of the music industry depends almost entirely on the success of the most popular albums.” Another surprise involved... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
Starting in January 2004, HBS will begin an annual alumni survey to gain a better understanding of how the School’s graduates define success and the role the HBS experience has played in helping them to achieve it. “This survey has View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
and the degree to which book and tax income are allowed to diverge. Desai concludes by pointing out that “the underlying developments driving these phenomena — including increased globalization and financial innovations — are unlikely to decline in View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
beings working together under various incentive structures and schemes. As a result, incentive and organization design is probably the most important factors in determining whether a business is ultimately successful. And getting that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
they are in the world, it’s important to remember that one can be innovative in very different ways in Brazil, or Japan, or India, or the United States,” he declares. “In my view, globalization is not forcing an American model across the... View Details
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
what people are willing to pay for US soybeans versus Argentinian and Brazilian soybeans because of tariffs, so these will be disproportionately important for Latin America,” he explains. About 10 percent of those who attend the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBS invented management education. This is where great ideas emanate.” Ray and his wife, Kathryn, who holds an MBA from Northwestern, have four adult children with very different interests. It was important to the couple to pass their... View Details