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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
deepest human needs. The author suggests thinking like an entrepreneur as a way to improve one’s business, life, and relationships. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (Random House) At the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
information technology for pedagogy; in teaching entrepreneurial management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
employees of international firms, Neeley’s research also looks at how distant workers collaborate with colleagues through various means of communication—electronic, voice, or in person—to advance work and relationship goals. Such contacts...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
eliminates a core source of international instability, and replaces expensive, tax-supported aid with productive, locally generated economic activities. Henry L. Kotkins Jr. (MBA ’72) Seattle, WA Poor Taste? Did the juxtaposition of the...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
to all the national security agencies, if they want it. We’re a whole different group of business people. And so we help on things that are not in the hard core of national security, but are in things like finance, like HR. JH: Can you...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
also describe an approach to reaching your unique potential. This includes: Assessing your strengths and weaknesses. Many people I speak with do not have a clear sense of their core strengths or an accurate assessment of their weaknesses....
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Books
world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that Kanter believes is defined as...
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- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What a Difference a Community Can Make
energized interactions among alumni and inspired new collaborations, business ventures, and friendships—outcomes we will continue to foster for years to come. The Campaign has left us with an enhanced understanding and appreciation of each other and of our View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Career and Relationships by Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan (AMP 115, 1994) (Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd.) According to Gopalakrishnan, perceptions influence our thoughts and actions, and these, in turn, are influenced by the “lenses”...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the...
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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
a conflict of business models—an organization can either kill people and break things, or help people and make things. To do both well is impossible,” he says. The transitory nature of the US military presence also made it hard to create meaningful View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 01 May 2013
- News
Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991
From the day he first set foot on Soldiers Field, Philip Bilden, managing director of HarbourVest Partners’ Asia business in Hong Kong, knew the relationships formed at HBS would have an enduring impact beyond Aldrich Hall. “For me as...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
Strugatz also have made sustainability a core principle. They realized, for example, that they were shipping 15,000 sample swatches each month, only to have them discarded once customers picked colors. So instead, Magagnini assembled...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
of my industry, but we’d still offer prepay discounts, and a small portion of people will choose that model—even though it’s not our core value proposition. It also gave us cash up front. — Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Have you thought about...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
Education courses she has taken. Margie Yang, chairman of Esquel Group in Hong Kong, also cites lifelong learning as a rewarding aspect of her ongoing relationship with the School. "As I get more involved with HBS, I become more...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
to look at the entirety of consumers’ experiences. How can I motivate millennials who work for me? —Trish Messina (MBA 1988) HUBERT: Millennials are challenging all the core tenets we’ve held about work—leadership, careers, hierarchy,...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
most global businesses succeed because their core brand proposition has value across borders: Wal-Mart’s selection and low prices; McDonald’s convenience, cleanliness, and service; Nike’s commitment to performance.” Jackson believes that...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I spent a lot of time early on...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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The Maestro and the Market
food manufacturers, and the launch of an elBulli hotel and a chain of reasonably priced restaurants called Fast Good. But what is the balance between leveraging the Adrià/elBulli brand and breaking its core meaning? In a classroom...
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