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- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down recently, McNerney succeeded in...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Taking a Stand. Patagonia pulled its advertising from Facebook and has recently renewed its call on other firms to boycott the platform until Facebook can make sure its products do no harm. What would taking a stand look like for your...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property questions; longer time horizons; and...
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- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
Clubs News Clubs News Digital health platform Noom awarded Entrepreneurial Company of the Year In a virtual award celebration held on April 6, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC) honored the digital health platform Noom as its 2022 Entrepreneurial...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
much that companies can do to reassure and help employees with this transition, she adds. First, it’s crucial for CEOs and management to be firm that nonnative speakers don’t have a problem. All employees have to be invested in working...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial
escape denial. But there are telltale signs of it in an organization. And if you don’t spot it, you can’t fight it. Ask yourself: 1. What happens to the bearer of bad news? Does your firm “shoot the messenger”? Doing so doesn’t change...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines
offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the Manhattan-based public relations View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. Tripsas notes, “Whenever a firm introduces a truly novel product, it has...
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- 11 Jun 2015
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Leading the way in sustainable style
pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through sustainability conferences and factory...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
met for a catered lunch in a room next to Welch's office on the 53rd floor of the GE Building at Rockefeller Plaza. "We talked nonstop," says Sanders, who spent his summer in Boston at the investment management firm of Gannett Welsh &...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Stealth Mogul
Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Curb Your Overconfidence
an article appearing in the January issue of Negotiation, an HBS Publishing newsletter. While overconfidence is a fundamental human bias, in the workplace it can lead to adverse consequences, says Bazerman. He poses this real-world dilemma: “You are the chief legal...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, won the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published that year. Christensen is currently head of the required General Management course. Prior to...
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