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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
involvement with the School, an effort that is a microcosm of the broad participation of HBS alumni throughout society in general. In the late 1970s, Mary Lindley Burton, a consultant in career strategy, was asked if she would help advise... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
employees and from a variety of outside parties. We have, of necessity, been continuously involved at all levels, from setting and implementing strategy for the college and its place in Bhutan to negotiating contracts, hiring, updating IT... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
in part, perhaps, to its tough, unglamorous realities. “Anyone who does a good job in the food industry and makes money works really, really hard,” says Keith Garner, owner of Pasta Cuisine, a restaurant and catering business in Oakland, California. Garner was employed... View Details
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
about your consumers, too. I'd like to mention, you know, there was this study done maybe 10 years ago by the Boston Consulting Group. They interviewed about 25,000 women across 20 countries, and their conclusions showed that the female... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
develop effective strategies for building new leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. Many participants, whose careers had diverged from more traditional business paths when their family-related responsibilities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: labor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
examined benchmarks on fiscal and monetary measures that were being implemented across the world. The team also consulted leading actors in the public and private sectors. “We received data from different ministries—tourism,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
given my background, I could come in and make a difference." Wood's prior career included working for Gil Kemp (MBA 1976) in direct marketing for Bertelsmann and for Pearson Education publishing companies. In 2005, she decided to hang a shingle for her own View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice
executive; and Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) will explore strategies to manage mobile employees. Also presenting will be executive coach Patti Hunt Dirlam, HBS professors Joseph Badaracco and Kathleen McGinn, and career View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans, that’s no longer true. Financial... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
“Yeah, you guys are not very competitive in Hong Kong anymore.” After consulting the family and Victor, who was still teaching at Harvard Business School, we decided to follow the business and set up in Taiwan. And I remember distinctly,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on “The Future of Market Capitalism.” The Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the event. BOWER: On the occasion of the School’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
strategy because strategies typically change over time, even for the best entrepreneurial teams. We also tend to be investors that focus very heavily on market share and growth. A typical business that we... View Details