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Anthony Martore

a time-constrained environment. This exercise was memorable because real world events often vary from strategic plans, and the step of evaluating all elements of a process, from the throughput unit numbers to organizational culture and... View Details

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Yiwei Li

assistant at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Following that transformative experience, he made his way to the United States to attend Harvard Business School. For Yiwei, even... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

The research is part of the HBS US Competitiveness Project, launched in 2010 to assess structural challenges to the US economy and identify ways that leaders in business, labor, government, and academia can work together to address those... View Details

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)

and Founding Partner at Imaginary Ventures), and Angela F. Williams (President and CEO of United Way Worldwide) as well as 7 panels and a startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs from... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Web

Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

director of Vogue , noted in 1924, “Art is not a thing to be done, but the best way of doing that which is necessary to be done. This brings a tobacco advertisement into the realm of art as truly as the designing of a cathedral.” 15... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

directors to know what’ s going on. We’ ve got to figure out ways to get information to them in packages they can understand. Technology offers an immense opportunity that we haven’ t taken advantage of. It’ s entirely possible for a... View Details

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 87-109. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract We explain the four basic ways to manage risk: prevention, risk shifting, risk spreading, and loss control. We set out five... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

mispriced," Coval remarks. "But we didn't have any sense that it would all come crashing down the way it did—we just thought that the mispricing would be corrected gradually." Stafford adds that neither he nor Coval had... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Your Way through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky (MBA 2009) Portfolio We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and... View Details

Portrait Project

Jackie Bernhelm

more than Adriana deserved to miss school to babysit her siblings. I want my life to be about helping other people to be more successful. The exciting part is that HBS has shown me that this can be done in so many ways – for example,... View Details

Portrait Project

Alyza Keshavjee

An explosion is followed by foreign army tanks, men pushing, women yelling, and children screaming. I turn the other way and she runs to me, arms widespread, green eyes illuminated, light brown hair flowing, smiling ear to ear.... View Details

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to poverty statistics for the first time. He was moved by them. “The United States puts forward a model for... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

suffering—from chronic back pain, insomnia, and asthma. “My body was failing in response to the way I was approaching life,” he says now. “It was the cumulative impact of a long career of high expectations, high performance, and high... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United States Army. My career... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

business model, and the transition from a world in which throwing CO2 up the chimney was free to one in which throwing away CO2 is a costly activity. This won't be easy, but it will be easier than we expect. Between 1942 and 1944, for example, the View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after World... View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

under the encouragement and coaching of his uncle. When his uncle passed away, basketball served as a way to keep his memory alive and propelled a drive for Laitsas to succeed. Laitsas’ hard work in the classroom and on the court landed... View Details

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