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Sustainability in Construction Industry
expect nine shifts to radically change the construction value chain and offer a blueprint for the next normal ahead. How do you build a city for... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Patricia Barron
Bad knees and growing boredom teaching dance led to a career shift. A friend suggested HBS – I was "at least as smart as the bottom half of his class." Hence my adventure from dancer to Board Vice Chair of a major corporation. I... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Ilene Lang
My parents raised me to set my sights high. But at age 11, a religious teacher said I could not be a leader because I was a girl. In my high school, only boys could run for senior class president so I had to settle for vice president. A Harvard professor claimed that... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
During the 2009 global recession, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) helped Ford Motor Company avoid government-financed bankruptcy. Now, as president and CEO, he is focused on serving customers around the globe with great products while building a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Company's Deep Smarts offers a roadmap for ensuring that critical knowledge remains in the organization. This excerpt focuses on the executive onboarding practice at Bank of America. Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
business model, he continued. He also said start-ups should spend more time on market verification and market feedback than on the "front office" issues of building a business. Fialkow's lessons included trust your instincts;... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the smarts of a deep-learning computer... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Patricia Barron
Bad knees and growing boredom teaching dance led to a career shift. A friend suggested HBS – I was "at least as smart as the bottom half of his class." Hence my adventure from dancer to Board Vice Chair of a major corporation. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
guy. Later, everyone said, "You guys knew nothing about technology. Why did all these smart people give you money?" And I said, "You know what? I think they saw two Indian kids sitting across the table and assumed we knew what we were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights
first-year MBA students. The bootcamp uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. Other topics such as coding and financial analysis are planned for future programs. HBX Two New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leadership Initiative, and Professor Nohria present a series of profiles of great business leaders. Possessing “contextual intelligence” (an ability to understand the spirit of the times and harness it), these leaders built and strengthened businesses through... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
building enterprises. "Employees and managers want to work in companies that grow," he says simply. "They want to grow with the company." In 1990, he launched a foundation to support Turkey's social, cultural, and economic development.... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
theory. It provides examples that show how social logic guides the practices of widely admired, high-performing companies, and why people and society are not an after-thought to be used or discarded, but core to the purpose and definition of the firm. It View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
substantial number of humans live. That’s big. If you have grand goals of how to change the world, there’s nothing bigger than space.” Back on earth, Weinzierl is looking forward to building up a robust treatment of a sector that hasn’t... View Details
- Profile
Luis Cervantes
students in one place, which is the right way to study business. Business is not black and white – it requires open discussions among people with multiple perspectives.” Yet for Luis, the most “fantastic thing about HBS has been the sense of community here. I... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
was humbling. “Up until then, I thought I was a smart person,” says Schooner, whose lengthy career was spent primarily at Chrysler and Textron. “I was well-educated, well-traveled, made a lot of money, had a good career, and [then I had]... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
are smart moves. “Think about transaction processing,” he counseled. “That’s measured in bits and bytes, not square footage.” There are also opportunities for people who want to build businesses of size,... View Details
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Micah Macfarlane
marketed. But there are investors we need, solutions we’ll have to market. I wanted to build those skills." Exploring new skills and perspectives Micah chose HBS for a number of reasons. "There’s an incredible variety of... View Details