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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
recommendations for developing a strategy for alumni lifelong learning. The group is building on work begun three years ago, as well as gathering current input - including data from the executive education program and the HBS Publishing...
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Cathy Connett
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
made the School great even as we have the courage to change,” he noted. (He elaborates on this commitment to tradition in the Q&A.) In short, Nohria sees two main objectives on the path ahead: innovate to thrive and prosper while...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Globe is in 2012. Will you do it and the program again? For now, I’m giving talks, and there’s a book in the works. As for 2012, we know how to do successful school programs. If we could get distribution channel commitment to our other...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
(Rupa Publications) Thirty women in power answer questions that confront all working women, from how best to balance the personal and the professional to how to dismantle gender biases. The essayists consider seminal issues that concern every View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
explicitly linked to your mission. But we believe that unless you do it, your mission will be difficult to achieve.' " Spoiler alert: The MCC did commit $46 million to community services, ultimately reducing the average distance from a...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
a report on the HBS Latin America Research Center), Latin America is an evolving, untapped market of vast potential, formidable challenges, and many fascinations. MORE A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens In the 1980s, democracy-oriented governments...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh in 2000. “They tried to invade my market with...
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- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
them really became a full-time career.” This was in the 1990s, when Gould had a management position in marketing and strategy at Reuters and before family-friendly HR policies, such as job-sharing, had caught on with many companies. She...
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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
implementation of our organizational strategy and budget. I work with our team and other stakeholders to think through research questions, and partner with funders to identify funding to investigate questions and disseminate our results....
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Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
the end of their lunch meeting, the pair had committed to research investing in African universities. Today, Maarifa, which translates as knowledge in Swahili and Arabic, has plans to invest in and/or acquire a dozen universities over the...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
international cooperation it needs to do its job? We are greatly encouraged by the increasing support and political commitment in recent months devoted to combating avian influenza, but even more is necessary. Surveillance and early...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
McCraw and I (with our coauthor, Linda S. Doyle PMD 49, 1985) summarized that style in eight points: Don’t give direct orders. Instead, listen, persuade, and cajole. Build consensus on the institutional mission. Embrace a strategy and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
methane, municipal solid waste, and waste heat, and stabilizing or offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. "NEES's continuing commitment to conservation is part of an overall environmental strategy to reduce...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
MADDY "When I have my mind set on something, I do not create a Plan B," says Monique Maddy (MBA 1993). "I feel that it lessens my commitment and my focus. If it doesn't work out, I come up with another Plan A, which I will also...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
and professionally,” she recalls. “It was a deep dive into the key aspects of accounting and finance, strategy and organizational performance, and—most of all— leadership. We got this larger worldview from colleagues who were business...
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Margie Kelley
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
challenges. In his latest role, as founder and president of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, he hopes to push the United States closer to what he considers an attainable national goal: a 30 percent reliance on renewable energy. Skelly is View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
real, serious, sustained commitment to shoot for the pinnacle — and to defend and advance your position if you attain it.” Yet luxury’s challenge remains an ongoing enticement for Birnbaum and the other alumni interviewed for this...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her home office with her head of View Details