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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering women to lead
women come to my class wanting to be leaders, but feeling like maybe they don't have what it takes. I try to get them to affirm their ambitions and understand that leadership is within their grasp," she says. Hood's approach served her well in her previous View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A model of service
says. "The soup kitchen is a business. I managed more than 50 people, oversaw all of our marketing efforts, and maintained relationships with grant-making organizations," says Garrett, who stepped down in 2013 from her role as director of... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Spirit of philanthropy advances Executive Education
underprivileged. “It has been the DNA of the organization to play a role in the community,” says Tata of his family’s company, the Tata Group, which he led as chairman from 1991 to 2012. The multinational conglomerate comprises more than... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Finishing Touches
of Harvard University’s future expansion. The addition of a south-facing entrance is both practical and symbolic, offering an open view through an airy, light-filled space as well as a clear reminder of the School’s future role at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability
and social responsibilities of organizations and their employees, including the relationship of corporations to society, the responsibilities of managers within organizations, and the role of personal values in individual decision-making.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
to the global automobile industry. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms are emerging as international players. There are also opportunities in infrastructure investment, such as telecom, ports, roads, and airports. Please comment on India’s capital markets and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
HBS Fund Supports Core Priorities Including Financial Aid
all alumni to support financial aid is through the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund play a critical role in the School’s ability to meet the growing demand for need-based fellowships, which nearly 50... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Legacy
Sunil B. Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) is founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, he talks about the role of innovation and reinvention to keep a business moving... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) and his wife, Simone, founded SecondBite, a nonprofit that feeds surplus food from growers and markets to more than a million needy Australians every month. “The role of the food is not just feeding people. It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
he hired him to head OU’s leadership programs and to work with its International Programs Center and other campus initiatives as an inspirational role model for students. And who wouldn’t he inspire? A helicopter pilot and now a major in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
role that is part ambassador, part recruiter. “I will pay attention to job opportunities in the Greater China area,” he says, “and pass the information along to the club members and also coordinate when people from China come to campus,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
figured that his impressive business credentials and international perspective would serve the school well. “They were as open to a practitioner for the role as they were for an academic,” Jones told the Herald-Sun. Thrilled to be back... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
building companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, and Ross Stores. Bowes also played a key role at Amgen, serving as the first chairman and treasurer of what has become the world’s largest biotech company. Venture philanthropy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
officials to take steps to enhance competitiveness. “While government policy sets the platform, companies have an essential role in improving the business environment in US communities,” says Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Strategy is About People
Jay Light played a number of key roles in McArthur’s Deanship. (He also served as first lieutenant to Kim Clark, who directly succeeded McArthur as Dean; when Clark assumed the presidency of Brigham Young University–Idaho, Light was his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and to see how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this,” said Senior Lecturer Dan Isenberg, who helped organize the visits to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. The... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
in elementary school in Chicago in the 1980s. Michael Jordan was an early inspiration, and a dramatic poster of the legendary Chicago Bulls star hangs on the wall in her office at Gillette Stadium. “There really weren’t any female role... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her dual View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Getting Smart About Philanthropy
Social Impact, a three-month-long online series at www.HBR.org that will feature the latest thinking on social enterprise through blogs, articles, and webinars from global leaders in the field. In January, HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu hosted the kick-off webinar,... View Details