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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
last December, rather than busing students to an area factory, the TOM faculty brought the factory to the students, delivering a “virtual” plant tour led by one of the company’s managers and facilitated by... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
“no-layoff” policies. In her research into how businesses are reinventing layoffs, Professor Sandra J. Sucher (MBA 1976) is examining the impact of layoffs and comparative approaches to workforce management around the world. “In the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
dilemma while participating in the second semester required course The Entrepreneurial Manager taught by Shikhar Ghosh, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice and the faculty cochair of the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
pressures. It can be a brutal situation." Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal's front page proclaimed last fall in the wake of the downturn in Asia, overcapacity has become "a dire and obvious problem for countries around the world." Typically, the seeds of overcapacity... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
group's majority stake in the rural retailer was sold, and the poultry business was placed in a joint venture with US-based Tyson Foods. The most significant changes came at the top. In August 2007, the managing director—a longtime Godrej... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
member of the Cherokee Nation, his father’s people, where his tribal name is Blackberry. He grew up between Omaha and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, where he was a football player and top student—not a plant whisperer.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
being improved student outcomes and profits the company could reinvest in students. At a Gestamp automotive manufacturing plant 20 minutes east of downtown Chattanooga, high school students wearing shirts emblazoned with “WBL” (work-based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
seamlessly deliver synchronous and asynchronous online learning. In short, I see the coming year as an opportunity to move many initiatives forward; we must plant the seeds now to ensure that HBS remains at the forefront of View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Don’t Mess with His Texas
Over the years, he began to purchase Hill Country land. Eventually, he gave up hunting and started to manage his property as a preserve for endangered species. “As you age, your values change,” Waters observed. “I think I love View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
members of BTG Pactual's management team. Esteves was inspired to pursue this undertaking because of his interest in education and opportunities to improve management education in Brazil by sharing best... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
GM plant in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, has held senior management positions at GM, TRW, MeadWestvaco, and BorgWarner and currently is a SVP at PPG Industries. Niekamp, who oversees about 4,000 employees... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
light-water nuclear plants, the young scientists' reactor runs on radioactive fuel dissolved into liquid molten salt. In theory at least, that means it can use nuclear waste from conventional plants as fuel and that it needs no active,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Perkowski Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home On Wall Street, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) channeled capital to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal performance so that workers could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
applied value-based management throughout the company and are inviting people to think out of the box, take much more responsibility for themselves and others, and really drive for value. Mining operations can directly affect communities,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Centralizing operations in an expanded version of its Reeseville plant (located in the town’s old high-school building) will allow efficiencies that will fuel further growth and local job creation. In conjunction with the project, local... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management... View Details