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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Kong's future was underscored at each of the conference's two luncheons. On the first day, delegates were treated to fish and lobster sauce, as well as a tour-de-force presentation by Victor K. Fung, a former HBS faculty member with a...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes place as star individual...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
women has to meet much higher expectations than I did." But based on her own career, Graham did offer five personal qualities that are essential for enduring leadership: strong personal values; self-confidence; courage and tolerance in the face of failures; the ability...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
in 2011 to the first Antares team assigned to MeraDoctor. Serving as US ambassador for negotiations on a treaty governing international telecommunications, Kramer headed the US delegation to a world conference in Dubai in 2012. Says...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Turning Point: Ready or Not
When you realize that the last elderly person in the family is no longer there—that you’re the “elderly” generation—it creates a sense of true apprehension. In the past, whenever I was worried about some important decision or life moment, I could View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in biodiversity, climate change, and food...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
right balance between delegation and control. It is a transition many fail to make. By tracing the experiences of 19 new managers over their first year in a managerial role, Hill reveals the complexity of the transition and analyzes the...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
awarded the nation's third-highest civilian honor, the Padma Bhushan, in 2002. Five years ago, Bajaj began to delegate many of his responsibilities to a team of younger executives. The final stage of that plan took place last April, when...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
because of its stellar location: Cape Town, South Africa. More than four hundred delegates came from dozens of countries, with close to half bringing partners or family members for whom a special program of events had been set up. The...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
while reinforcing and encouraging the pursuits, passion, and life’s purpose of individual family members. What’s the role of a wealth strategist in the family? You have to take charge of your wealth. You can’t delegate your responsibility...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
value of building wider connections became even clearer on the afternoon of January 7 when conference delegates sat down after lunch in the ballroom of the harborside Grand Hyatt Hotel. Calling the brainstorming session to order was...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
Does a new general manager who delegates decisions run the risk of appearing indecisive? Is an "open-door" policy a good way for a general manager to get information, or a terrible waste of time? What happens when a manager asks employees...
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Daniel Penrice
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
past. And what I try to do is really focus on the things that need to change. I'm willing to delegate letting the trains run on time and the normal stuff that that's going well, I focus my time on the stuff that's not going well. And...
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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
professorial zeal to researching, understanding, and reflecting upon estate and end-of-life planning, writing papers and delivering speeches on these topics. “We can either make our own end-of-life decisions or avoid doing so by View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
observe an almost total absence of 20- to 40-year-old men and women around the village, or to experience the hard labor that falls on those left behind when it comes to simple needs like getting and preparing food — a task delegated...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
Others have raised concerns about investing too much power in the hands of the Fed. Pozen advised the Senate committee to tap the Federal Reserve as the super regulator but to delegate enforcement to the appropriate existing federal...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
essential thought, and go directly to Is it true? From that perspective, Bradley found that he agreed with 18 of the 20 complaints and told his managers as much when they next met. He would delegate more, he said, but they would also have...
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- 28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future
homeless and trafficked youth in Manhattan, helping young people in the job readiness program. She has also traveled with a delegation to Guatemala to volunteer at Covenant House’s Guatemala City location. As a volunteer at ESchool4Girls,...
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Jill Radsken