by by Jim Heskett - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

its third consecutive fund commenced in 1992. We are currently raising a fourth fund which includes some HBS classmates (all others are welcome!!!). I have two daughters, ages 30 and 28, respectively, and a son, age 1, by my wonderful... View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer

Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Oct 2016
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China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes and publishes in rare moments... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Feb 1998
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C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

the midst of court-ordered desegregation. (Of that time he is often quoted as saying, "Our concern should be the quality of the school at the end of the bus ride, rather than the length of the ride itself.") In 1982, North Carolina Governor View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

05 Dec 2008
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New Book Reveals How Customer and Employee Ownership Adds Business Value

12 Oct 2017
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Braude’s Believe It Or Not: Puerto Rico, NFL Protests & NBC

21 Jan 2022
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A Leader’s Handbook for Managing Culture

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance