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Charles L. Brown
Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone businesses and in the process, created business entities that... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Theodore N. Vail
Securing over $100 million in financing, Vail first set up a more unified operating structure for AT&T, the Bell companies and the so-called “Bell-Connected” independent firms, and then went on to form an affiliation with competitor Western Union. With this more... View Details
Keywords: Communications
M. Kenneth Oshman
As one of the principal founders of Rolm, Oshman is credited with the design and development of a sophisticated private branch exchange or PBx switch that has become a central component of telecommunication systems. Over the course of fifteen years, Oshman built Rolm... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Walter S. Gifford
During Gifford’s presidency, AT&T experienced tremendous growth. Gifford increased operating revenue from $657 million to $2.25 billion. During Gifford’s tenure, the wire mileage of AT&T rose from 39.5 million to 113 million, and the number of Bell telephones... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 19 May 2016
- News
Creating a Public Greenway in Northern California’s Scenic Wine Country
include Covad Communications, a groundbreaking telecommunications company established in 1996. “Any great company—including those I’ve started—the technology will be obsolete by then.” McMinn’s passion for the Vine Trail was borne of View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
proceeds go toward the club’s high-impact programs, including pro-bono consulting through Community Partners, workforce development through the Skills Gap Initiative, entrepreneurship through the regional Alumni New Venture Competition... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
private schools. It has grown to 1,022 students, drawn not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. She also owns three other schools, licenses out another one, and has opened a center in a poor community that ensures... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
After founding the online cosmetics service Eve.com, Varsha Rao (MBA 1995) is now heading global operations for Airbnb, helping customers of this mission-driven company gain richer travel experiences by connecting them more closely to the people and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Changing the Culture
To address Dean Nitin Nohria’s concern that HBS can be a difficult place for some groups to thrive, the School has launched a new Culture and Community Initiative to ensure that all members of the community... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Black students from lower-income families in struggling neighborhoods—hope for a successful future. Wilfong’s fundraising, through events like a children arts auction and a community walkathon, allowed the nonprofit to make the same... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
healthy communities. Traditionally, businesses have supported the social sector in two different ways: they contribute their employees' time for volunteer activities, and they support community initiatives with money and gifts in kind.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
with five points of light: character, academics, organizational stability, family/scholar engagement, and college knowledge. “What’s constant is the aspiration to create a greater good,” he says. “We can prove the possible and create hope in View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Find your passion through purposeful action
Roseann Hassey (MBA 1987) talks about providing service to communities in need in New Orleans, Mexico, South Africa, and Haiti. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
Many people associate the name &Beyond with luxury adventure travel. CEO Joss Kent (MBA 1997) thinks of it, first, as a conservation company. Tourism pays for the company’s habitat management, community development, and other conservation... View Details
- December 2019
- Article
It Helps to Ask: The Cumulative Benefits of Asking Follow-up Questions
By: Michael Yeomans, Alison Wood Brooks, Karen Huang, Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
In a recent article published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP; Huang, Yeomans, Brooks, Minson, & Gino, 2017), we reported the results of 2 experiments involving “getting acquainted” conversations among strangers and an observational field... View Details
Yeomans, Michael, Alison Wood Brooks, Karen Huang, Julia A. Minson, and Francesca Gino. "It Helps to Ask: The Cumulative Benefits of Asking Follow-up Questions." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 117, no. 6 (December 2019): 1139–1144.
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- Performance & Appearance
How Fabulous is too Fabulous? The Masculinity Dilemmas of Daring Dressers at Work
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
that a priority. The more students the nonprofit could reach, and the more donors it could educate, the better the student experiences and the stronger the leadership pipeline for the future. Goldman quickly identified communications as a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
Astrong, vibrant, and active alumni community is crucial to the School's ongoing success and relevance. One of the goals of The Harvard Business School Campaign was to broaden and deepen the ways in which alumni engage with each other and... View Details