Leading Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset

collaborating with local preservation groups. “I loved going to different parts of the country and learning how important a sense of local place and culture is to people,” Cohen says. Cohen had served on the finance team for former... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self

teeter-totter where even if my team is experiencing me or clients are seeing leader A, sometimes to be truthful, I'm feeling quite leader B on the inside. April: Tell me about some of the dangers that come with operating in leader B mode.... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

Buying lobster at Watson’s near her Brunswick home. Leading a meeting with her team at the SBA. Strolling with her son Henry on Bowdoin’s campus. Throughout her career, Karen Gordon Mills has owned, managed,... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a world-class management View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally

research to administrative agencies that might not have the resources to gather such data on their own. There have been instances where companies have had a huge impact on the laws that govern them. In 1998, for instance, management and legal View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

mission we could commit to for life,” said Jeong, who launched Noom with cofounder Artem Petakov in 2008, in order to “help people everywhere lead healthier lives.” Jeong said that mission helped them through several iterations of ideas... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

business team needing to travel from Boston to Syracuse, New York, for example, could simply phone in the night before and book a nonstop sixty-minute flight for not much more than the cost of last-minute business-class tickets on a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

policy issues remained strong. He enrolled at HBS because he believes that, more so than policymakers, “managers who lead health-care systems are the ones today who are introducing needed changes.” At the School, Jain has done three... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

Illustration credit: iStock / Topp_Yimgrimm Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At the HBS reunions in 2019, the Skydeck team set up shop on Spangler Lawn and asked alumni... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

cofounded in 1998. He also advised a number of student teams competing in the HBS Business Plan Contest, an event he judged in previous years. “It made me feel good that three of the four finalists that year, including the winning team,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

faculty to guide rather than lead a discussion. And they’ll still necessitate that students put themselves into the shoes of the protagonist. So I think the engagement around business decisions and business practices will never change.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of mining... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate... View Details