Filter Results
:
(191)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(191)
- News (76)
- Research (76)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (56)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(191)
- News (76)
- Research (76)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (56)
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
refused to go along, since this branch was concerned about aircraft operating from carriers. McNamara urged field commanders in Vietnam to apply measurement to enemy losses, but did not realize until it was too late that the measurements...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Myers
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
organizations include Enron, USAID, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bain & Co., United Technologies Corp, and International Resources Group. Rick graduated with a BS cum laude in engineering from USMA West Point and is a decorated Vietnam...
View Details
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
federal government, federal contractors with contracts of more than $10,000, and programs receiving federal financial assistance 1974 The Vietnam Era Readjustment Act requires affirmative action for disabled and View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
that his generation “relaxed” after the Vietnam conflict and that it was time to get back to work to make the world a better place for succeeding generations. In the 1960s, Arthur said, he saw how a movement could begin: “One or two stand...
View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Affairs. The program is also supported by alumni such as John French (MBA 1974), a former Marine pilot during the Vietnam conflict. French and his wife, Elaine, have established the French Family Yellow Ribbon Program Fund to assist HBS...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
WAC that said, “Think more, say less, and try not to smudge oil on your wrinkled WAC!” Pssst, Got Any Ideas about This War? WAC student Bruce Bockmann (MBA ’67) During our first year, my class — about one-third of whom had served in the military — had a long WAC case...
View Details
Keywords:
Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
over factories in Vietnam and environs, and also a failed bid for a much smaller German company, but nothing to prepare it for the Thomson assets' integration. Fifth, there is learning in the ambience. That is, India Inc. has built up,...
View Details
Keywords:
by Tarun Khanna
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
perspective, we reached out to alumni who had confronted similar challenges—including the OPEC crisis, the Vietnam War, the Financial Crisis of 2008—and we asked them how they made it through those difficult times. And in this special...
View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when the View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
ACOG who are Vietnam vets liken it to the experience of being on patrol in the jungle one day and stepping off a plane in Seattle or San Francisco the next evening. After years of being totally consumed by my job, I'm now trying to focus...
View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and Suharto came and went. Vietnam vets were joined by their Gulf War counterparts in the struggle to put their lives back together after the trauma of armed combat. Noriega was captured. Castro wasn't. The effects of South Africa's...
View Details
Keywords:
Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
India, Kenya, Pakistan, or Vietnam where girls typically do not get much education. The U.S. girls raise money to help their partners and upgrade their schools. The truth is that we in the developed world have all won the lottery of...
View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
Permanent 6/9/01 (Cover story) Bob Kerrey and the ghosts of Vietnam (cowritten with Johanna McGeary) A One-Man Earthquake 5/7/01 (Cover story) Jim Jeffords's GOP defection How Can We Miss You If You Never Go Away? 2/26/01 (Cover story)...
View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
consulting business, a smattering of travels. On the horizon, I knew, was a departure from full-time work. In 2008, with no particular goal in mind, I took a trip on a riverboat down the Mekong River, from Cambodia to Vietnam. Vietnam was...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making...
View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
observation to be compared and combined with substantial "prior" knowledge and reliable bodies of research. Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010 Authors:Christian Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh, and Do Hong Hanh...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
inherited. Fearful Odds: A Memoir of Vietnam and Its Aftermath by Charles W. Newhall (MBA 1971) (Bibliotheca Brightside LLC) This is the true story of a young Army officer, assigned to lead a platoon on a reconnaissance mission in View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can read about that trip, and the program, here.) I’m staying...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
to me as I approached it through my path in the ice. As a Navy Seal officer (and Vietnam vet prior to HBS), this was not my first ice-water swim. I was well aware of the amount of time a body can spend in ice water before conditions get...
View Details