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- 25 May 2016
- News
FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
Rob Beiderman (MBA 2014) Having worked at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) arrived at HBS intent on rounding out his skills and returning to the field of private equity. His life took a sharp turn, however, when it came time to develop a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
institutional change should be the responsibility of aspiring and accomplished leaders everywhere,” says Kanter. Why do we need advanced leaders now? Problems like climate change, racial and gender disparity, health issues, and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
with the HBS US Competitiveness Project, Kanter convened a national summit at HBS that drew leaders from government, business, labor, technology, and community coalitions. Together, they worked on overcoming barriers that have prevented... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
find out why it existed. He and a group of colleagues began interviewing entrepreneurs who lead neuroscience startup companies, asking them what the principal barriers were between themselves and success. Their responses were unexpected.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jan 2018
- News
The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
a barrier had fallen, one that I had not even realized existed. I had thought work was about being an island and performing well, and I had been so focused on proving that I had the intellectual merit and tenacity to succeed, I had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
innovators who are creating and implementing new solutions to these daunting challenges. The only barrier to empowering many of these entrepreneurs is the availability of funding to ensure that their ideas can get off the ground and... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
business program at the age of 16. Initially, Ferguson was against the idea of continuing on to get his MBA. “I thought I was going to be an entrepreneur and didn’t want to spend all that money,” he explains. Seeing the effect of HBS on a friend (“He presented himself... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
managers that are directly affected by the problem. In such cases, the overriding concern for firms becomes whether to restructure or otherwise change existing arrangements, or to exit the business in question altogether. These are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
one student’s comment that “This is going to change the way I view my entire career.” Moments of insight like this are happening now at HBS and, Weiss observes, “There’s a role for the School and its faculty to play in helping members of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
on Wall Street,” Sityodtong says as his driver navigates traffic to a weigh-in event the night before the fights. “On Wall Street I wanted to make millions of dollars, and I did that. Changing the world and making a positive impact on the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
unanimous: All-day breakfast. In the end, all-day breakfast rolled out nationwide in October 2015, less than a year after Cunningham arrived. In this episode of Skydeck, I talked to Cunningham about how she managed rapid organizational View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale social View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
house of some one thousand participants. After attributing the giant bookseller's success to its focus on the customer, Bezos set out to debunk seven "big myths of the Internet." Myth #1: The Internet changes everything. Not really,... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
president. Pounding away steadily, Fudge eventually broke through. The scene couldn't have been more symbolic of Fudge's life. As an African-American woman, she has been breaking down walls since she was a child, quietly dismantling the racial and gender View Details