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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Swiss Re, which predicts that even if some mitigating actions are taken, global GDP will shrink by 14 percent by 2050 by 18 percent if no actions are taken. Okay, the sky may really be falling. However,...
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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
person is doing something wrong, but it's more that collectively, we're not able to work together. So it's more this idea of collective action versus me and another person. Hannah Vazzana, 2002. You don't...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Combining action and analysis, they are a formidable crime-fighting duo. In Pale Gray for Guilt (1968), Meyer carries out an intricate con to trick a wealthy bad guy into stock market losses that will benefit a widow whose struggling...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech...
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- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
goal of $250,000. “Creating this fundraiser has been a lesson in the power of channeling despair into action and hope,” Badgaiyan says. “It’s been incredibly heartening to see this collective View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
How-To Book for General Managers
Effective implementation often comes down to how well executives design, direct, and influence their organization's critical processes. HBS professor David Garvin's new book, General Management: Processes and Action (McGraw-Hill),...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief
syndrome, manage innovation, and develop action plans to attain — and maintain — industry leadership. From the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series: Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Leadership. In this important collection,...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across...
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- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man to join the company, only to...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
truly competitive environment. She suddenly found herself making decisions for the largest and most widely dispersed organization she had ever managed, and she "wanted to confirm that some of my own actions and instincts were on target."...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
suggestion, it was an action plan. Less than a year earlier, he’d been invited to join the board of Manhattan’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, which was in the midst of a three-year, $79 million transformation. A New York...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
holds an expanding personal collection of NFTs, sat down with the Bulletin last spring to talk about trust and transparency, and what a crypto future could look like. Scott, in the article “Bitcoin and Beyond,” you and coauthors Christian...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Mortgage & Realty and Michigan Heritage Bancorp. He has led several community organizations, such as the Lansing Symphony, Capital Area United Fund, and the Voluntary Action Center in Lansing. Born in New York City and raised in Wilmette,...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Five Degrees of Doriot
LIFE VEST: A soldier displays a piece of shrapnel that lodged in his armored vest during frontline action in Korea on March 30, 1952. The impact knocked him to the ground, but the vest, reinforced with Doriot’s “Doron,” was credited with...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive battles, and assess whether a...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Success began with vegetable lentil soup. Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) was fresh off volunteering in Australian politics as state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria when he was inspired to take action about food waste and hunger. He...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
SILVERTHORNE Book Briefs Living with American Indian Art: The Hirschfield Collection by Alan Hirschfield (MBA 1959) with Terry Winchell (Gibbs Smith) Hirschfield built what is said to be "among the greatest private View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion...
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