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Editor's Note In 1908, the world was vastly different. Henry Ford gave the world the Model T, the Sixteenth (allowing federal income tax) and Seventeenth (requiring direct election of Senators) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted, major railroad companies were consolidating and oil was discovered for the first time in Persia. (1) comment
Outgoing president and CEO, eBay Inc., National Co-Chairperson of Senator John McCain's 2008 Presidential Campaign. Current Board member of eBay, the eBay Foundation, Procter & Gamble, and DreamWorks Animation. Prior experience at Procter & Gamble, Bain, Disney, Stride Rite, FTD, and Hasbro. (1) comment
The first-year course in Leadership and Corporate Accountability, or LCA, was one of the most memorable and important courses I have had here at HBS. One of the key reasons was the classroom leadership of David Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration. (3) comments
For a hundred years, the Harvard Business School has provided a transformational experience for students as they embark on careers that improve the practice of business and contribute meaningfully to society. We salute our alumni who have responded to the call for leadership, and have taken their learning experiences from the classroom to transform businesses and organizations worldwide. (0) comments
General Motors is the world's largest auto company, selling over 9 million vehicles in 2007 and employing over 260,000 people. At its helm is HBS alumnus Rick Wagoner, who made GM history in 2000 as the youngest person to take over the CEO post. But taking on the position has been no joyride; since 2000 Mr. (0) comments
Orit Gadiesh, chairman, Bain & Company, is one of the profession's most acclaimed experts on management and corporate strategy. Her early lessons in leadership came from Generals in the Israeli war room while she was in military service in the early 1970s. (1) comment
Dr. Peter Slavin, MBA Class of 1990, is currently the President of Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the premier medical institutions in North America. Dr. Slavin is a board-certified physician in internal medicine who has been active in health care leadership and management from his days as a medical student (Harvard Medical School Class of 1984). (0) comments
Stephen R. Covey is the author of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and has also written First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. Dr. Covey established the "Covey Leadership Center" which later merged with Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey, a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity tools to individuals and to organizations. (0) comments
Keith Ferrazzi is the author of the best-selling book Never Eat Alone and has been hailed by Forbes and Inc. magazines as one of the world's most "connected" individuals. Currently, Ferrazzi is CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a leading sales & marketing consulting firm. (0) comments
A cold New England morning dawned at the Harvard Business School in 1963, when legendary marketing professor, the late Ted Levitt, sporting his distinctive, thick mustache and bushy, black eyebrows, while exhibiting his customary, theatrical teaching style, spotted his cold-call victim for the morning's case about Marlin Shavers. (0) comments
CEO and Chairman of Time Inc, one of the most prominent and recurring names in Fortune magazine's list of 'the most powerful women in American Business', the orchestrator of 125 magazines, and the recipient of last year's annual HBS alumni achievement award. (1) comment
Ernesto Bertarelli is a successful business executive, passionate yachtsman, generous philanthropist and devoted family man. In 1996 Bertarelli became CEO and deputy chairman of Serono SA, a global biotechnology firm that he inherited from his father. Bertarelli led Serono through a significant period of growth before selling to Merck KGaA of Germany in 2006 for $13. (0) comments
Mark Fields is Executive Vice President, Ford Motor Company, and President of the business in North and South America. In this role he has been affecting change in all Ford's manufacturing, marketing and development operations since October 2005. Prior to this role, Fields served as executive vice president, Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group; as president and CEO of Ford's partner Mazda Motor Company; and was among the first graduates of Ford's Marketing Leadership Program. (0) comments
Happy Birthday Harvard Business School. On this, your 100th birthday, I wish for you the audacity of youth, the confidence of experience and the humility of age. Your 100 years have seen many changes - enterprises grown and faded, technologies come and gone, theories built, torn down and rebuilt again. (0) comments
Many of us probably remember exactly where we were when we got the phone call, email, or letter opening the hallowed gates of HBS to us. I received my acceptance while in a windswept forward operating base in Iraq. My colonel heard the news, grunted, and spit on the sand. (0) comments
President Faust, Dean Light, Deans from across Harvard University, Distinguished Faculty, Administration and Staff, Celebrated Alumni, welcomed guests, and fellow students, it is an honor to be speaking to you today on this exciting occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the founding of Harvard Business School. (0) comments
It is painful for me to think that I might succumb to what Teddy Roosevelt called a "cloistered life which saps the hardy virtues… as it saps the individual; or else…[being] wedded to that base spirit of gain and greed which recognizes in commercialism the be-all and end-all …, instead of realizing that though an indispensable element, it is, after all but one of the many elements. (0) comments
"The people you study with determine what you will learn. I enjoy teaching at HBS because I have the opportunity to work with great people everyday - engaging students in classroom discussions, benefiting from faculty insights, and learning from our practitioner alumni. (0) comments
Professor Bruce Scott teaches a highly popular second year course Economic Strategies of Nations where he pushes students to question current trends in capitalism and identify national strategies to reduce inequality while promoting development. Prof. Scott graduated from HBS with an MBA in 1958. (1) comment
Bharat Anand, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, is a professor in the strategy unit. Professor Anand's research addresses the most important strategic questions general managers face today. His ability to translate his scholarship to the classroom is renowned among HBS students; more than half the class of 2008 ranked Professor Anand's second-year elective on corporate strategy their top choice in the course lottery process. (0) comments
Elizabeth Riley is in her first year as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. She taught Entrepreneurial Finance in the fall and is teaching The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) in the RC this semester. Prior to HBS, she spent ten years teaching and developing entrepreneurship courses in the undergraduate and MBA programs at Babson College. (0) comments
