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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing management...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Appointed Managing Director, Alcan, Limerick, Ireland 2002 Appointed CEO, Alcan Primary Metal Group 2006 Named one of “50 Women to Watch” by WSJ 2007 Appointed Chief Executive, Anglo American 2008 Implements “zero harm” policy to improve...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Jeanne Jackson
CEO of Banana Republic, with concurrent responsibility for all of parent company Gap Inc.’s Internet businesses, and, most recently, as president and CEO of Walmart.com. A skilled and forward-looking manager, she has been listed among Business Week’s “Top 25 View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the program—which seeks to turn best practice...
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- 03 Mar 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
the uncomfortable moments. The ability to have a difficult conversation is a necessary social skill that mature leaders have to develop. Knowing someone is deceptive is quite different from knowing the truth. It’s important to recognize that difference. We don’t have a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
these three prompts: I will let go of I am grateful for And I will focus on Thinking about letting go helps crystallize and eject a swirling anxiety. Narrowing our focus helps cut through fogs of cognitive...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, the course was designed to help students understand the BRI from both an operations and a political-economy perspective. “China’s global efforts, especially its overseas...
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- 23 Mar 2020
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Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic....
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
was a year ago. Think about what you love and what's going to be important ten years from now. Key elements in evaluating a business proposal I've always been a big "bet the jockey, not the horse" guy. Management and quality of people are...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
explains the reflective, soft-spoken Plochman, "represents the importance of renewal and change while honoring the past." This perspective is integral to how he manages the nearly 150-year-old family business, purchased in 1883 by his...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Salter New Head of External Relations
In his new role as senior associate dean for External Relations, Professor Malcolm S. (“Mal”) Salter is ready and eager to shift his focus from the classroom to the global community of 65,000 HBS alumni. “The alumni community is an...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
a performance by Jason Randal, one of the world’s greatest magicians, he knew he had to get Randal to speak to students in his Managing Innovation elective course. “One theme of the course is the role of individual innovators and the...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Rating Better
associate professor Joshua Coval, and Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago’s business school, conclude that a manager’s ability can best be detected by comparing his or her portfolio with those of other fund managers with stellar...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
however, there had never been an attempt to catalogue information about women across the library’s fourteen hundred manuscript collections. “It was time to address that need,” comments Linard. “People’s interests and focus shift over...
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- 09 Sep 2024
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Basket Chase
I could acquire, but at the same time, it helped focus me, right? I wasn’t looking at everything and anything all over the map. It did help narrow the pool. RY: Robin, I think a lot of listeners might be wondering, “Gee, if I quit my job...
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- 22 Sep 2020
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Balancing Act
and also has these other diverse attributes we want.’ That person is out there.” But that’s not the last step, she says. “You can’t set one goal and call victory, which is something I did in the early rounds.” Eberle Walker admits that she started with a View Details
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- 18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
findings from the 1,020 responses: philanthropy is “extremely” or “very” important to more than 63 percent of respondents; a sense of responsibility is the primary motivation (84 percent); and almost half of the survey’s participants View Details
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
’96), managing director at Mayfield. Sean Dalton (MBA ’98), a managing general partner at Highland Capital, noted that dire predictions for the industry were nothing new. He counseled a simple, head-down...
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