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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
better understand the challenges various groups face and appreciate what each person brings to the table. “A core general management skill today and tomorrow is the ability to make the most out of human differences,” Rivkin notes....
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the status quo, use design thinking to generate fresh perspectives, build resilience...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
mirror and you say, "Gosh. You're the best looking person on earth." DM: [laughs] JI: "There's nobody that was ever born that is better, better than you. Better looking, better acting." And you just have this ability to kind of keep...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
relentless innovation and laser-eyed attention to detail are the primary drivers of success. And despite, or perhaps because of, those demands, these manufacturing executives also describe the sense of deep satisfaction their work can...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
overheads? I recall that in my day a particularly endearing, if mobility-challenged, professor would repeatedly collide with the overhead projector while executing the complex tango steps inherent to case-method facilitation. No such...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Leading the Way
democracy working together created prosperity for about a billion people around the world. The challenge ahead is to ensure that the other 8 billion people on the planet are brought into this circle as well. Our ability to educate leaders...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
who find better ways to address these needs will add value through new companies and services. James Dimon (MBA ’82) Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dimon Read complete profile. Before joining JPMC in 2004, Jamie Dimon had been a top View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
opportunities for young executives coming up when there are senior executives who have a lot of wisdom and a lot to contribute who want to stay on and stay and be engaged? And so, I'd be curious what your...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and founder of HBS’s Startup Bootcamp. Kerr is unit head of Entrepreneurial Management and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures Program in View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
preregister patients? Or maybe something fashion-related? How long does it take people to get dressed in the morning? Is choosing what to wear stressful? Is an interactive app the answer? That fashion app idea has been rattling around in Foalea’s head for a while, but...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
next generation must be formally groomed to ensure we remain globally competitive.” As a group, the Chirchirillos have attended the weeklong HBS Executive Education offering Families in Business. Daughter Trisha (OPM 36, 2007) and son...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
hard to imagine being the only woman in a room of 350 people, but that’s what many of us experienced.” The founding CEO of AltaVista, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) was a pioneering IT executive at companies including Symbolics and Lotus...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
more direct international experiences for our students, and for our faculty. One idea might be short study trips that would combine immersion in key regions around the world with individual preparation beforehand and class work or field studies after. In View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books
Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of that: Direct selling is people. The View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 17 Jan 2019
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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 right requires the View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the needs of the present generation...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His father graduated from MIT with...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
Super Bowls a day for sixteen days." Track Records and a Marathon Sprint Frazier notes that for such an endeavor to succeed, the ability to rapidly build a cohesive entity - forming an institution - is of paramount importance. The...
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Garry Emmons