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...job with a Midwestern manufacturer or the U.S. Department of Labor. She aimed higher: Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School and then venturesome companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Kleiner Perkins. If these workplaces were wild...
...reckoning when they must deliver on their promises to plan beneficiaries.Robert C. Pozen is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His latest book, "Extreme Productivity," will be published...
...relationship."No. 9. The Most Boring CEO ListNow we're getting serious. Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian at Harvard Business School, says list-mania doesn't always produce losers; it's just that you have to look past the executives riding...
...more? That's the time to ask yourself, "What else could I do with that $500?" says Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School. "It really changes your mindset." If you think about using the money to vacation in Florida or invest in...
...to question his intellectual prowess. By his own account, he went through two prestigious colleges (Yale and Harvard Business School) without ever aspiring to academic distinction. Friends from his adult years are unanimous in saying that the...
...usually requires mixing different operational styles and cultures, said Samuel Hayes, a finance professor at Harvard Business School. In these cases, the partnership was probably fueled by top officials' desire to get bigger without much thought...
...decorative/plumbing supply business in Connecticut in 1978. Then, six or seven years ago, son Peter, fresh from Harvard business school, had an idea. It was about giving Waterworks, and bathrooms, a signature look. Today, Waterworks' "updated...
...he has an excuse for everything attempted. School: Admittedly a C- student, yet he was admitted to Yale and Harvard Business school. Excuse: He came from a wealthy, well-connected family. Business: He is a Texas oil man who never found...
...Broughton, an English newspaperman who graduated from Harvard Business School in 2006, chronicled the storied b-school in his new book, "Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School." While lauding the smarts of his fellow students...
...senator had developed a battle plan for an awesomely intimidating and expensive process. Mitt Romney, with his Harvard Business School MBA, was no more efficient than Obama. Of course, running a good campaign is not a guarantee of success as...