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- 01 Oct 1996
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At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
effective relationships with boards of directors. In addition to Porter, other HBS faculty members teaching in those sessions included Professor Jay W. Lorsch, a leading expert on corporate governance and boards of directors, and... View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
women and leadership. "Harvard is a global platform—HBS cases are read by so many individuals around the world. We thought, how do we help the leading business school in the world focus on this?" says Kordestani, cofounder and COO of the... View Details
Keywords: W50
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
analyze why such partnerships occur and show how they are improving social conditions across Latin America as well as creating value for businesses. The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a collaboration among HBS, the AVINA Foundation, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
health care management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
underestimates the scale of the problem because those are only the ones we know about,” Savova says. The situation will be exacerbated by job losses associated with the COVID crisis this year, leading to more than 20 million abandoned... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to run Neutrogena.”... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
Behavior “We’ve thought deeply about creating a course that not only looks at different types of management challenges, but also suggests how to deal with those challenges based on your seniority in an organization,” Raffaelli says. “What does it mean to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
airlines filed for bankruptcy. "You've got to think where the competitive dynamics of a business or industry are going to lead over time," Buffett said. "What causes unusual profitability," he emphasized, "is not demand or a great idea,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
serving some 10 million students a month, and used in more than 300,000 classrooms around the world to teach math, science, arts, economics, and more. Khan, who now leads a team of 60 at the non-profit, counts Microsoft’s Bill and Melinda... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
make a profit. And then two cents, and then four, and then eight." In 2000, Siebel's revenues were $1.79 billion. "This was one of the most well-attended speaker events we've ever organized," said Jacobsohn. "It was a great opportunity for HBS alumni to come together,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
alumni — and the media, as appropriate. A related survey for Executive Education alumni is also on the drawing board. Plans for the HBS survey were nudged along last spring when Business Week set out for the first time to survey graduates of thirty View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
(Princeton Press, 2007). Khurana charts the origins and development of MBA programs, beginning with Harvard in 1908. The narrative plot thickens as he describes in compelling detail how corporate managers in the 1970s and 1980s went from heroes to goats as academics at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
challenge. "You have to get the price per customer per year down sufficiently low so institutions are willing to handle an account with a few hundred dollars," Tufano says. To that end, his D2D Fund has partnered with SunGard, a leading... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
one group of people over others. It's actually leading to you selecting people that are worse performing. And there's an article that was published a couple years ago by a group at MIT that showed exactly this, that, unfortunately,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
“Before his talk, Professor Shih toured three Moog factories in the Buffalo area,” says Sherrill. Moog Inc., which is currently headed by CEO John Scannell (MBA 1999), is a leading aerospace manufacturer, producing critical components for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
soil, Keen says; it can also lead to better nutrition and economic sustainability for an indigenous population that has long suffered from obesity, diabetes, and poverty. Far from alone, Keen and Sacred Seed are part of a growing food... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
really important guy, Jeff Seller, who's the lead producer. He's supposed to make money. It's nice to have someone in an innovation team who thinks about making money. Sometimes we see venture teams that don't have that, right? He's also... View Details