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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
opportunity in reverse. I know that now. Philip Ebeling (AMP 185, 2013) SVP, R-&-D, St. Jude Medical A foundation and a catalyst In September 2001, I quit my job as VP for derivatives training at an... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 2002) Orpen Press John Travers uses the lens of his medical training to examine the ability of humanity—from the backstreets of Kolkata, through a hospital in Ghana, to the busiest emergency department in the world, a women’s prison,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
describe myself as a shock absorber,” she says. “My job is to take care of everyone on and off the set and solve their problems on a day-to-day basis.” As an undergraduate at Harvard, Nabatoff was the first woman to produce the Hasty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
sense of relief when it’s over but we have only a short time to relax before climbing into the cockpit again. (JEA, ed.) Coppa, in middle, at Kuwait staging area Courtesy Michael Coppa A graduate of West Point, Captain Michael N. Coppa (HBS ’05) was View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many things to change your professional circumstances, but there’s... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
committed to diversifying their workforce. Supporting staff members is another important part of the REP. Unconscious-bias training is being offered across departments to help promote racial equity, and those who are responsible for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
journey from St. Louis to Yale, committed suicide. And a few months after that, he came to me in a dream, and he said, "You know, we did a lot of things that we wouldn't advise anybody we love to do." And I knew exactly what he meant. I knew that the ways that we were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
platforms like Khan Academy and others are part of the solution, but not everybody can access these. SK: In the past 10 years, schools have done a pretty good job of getting internet access and devices. The huge thing that this is... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in economic development... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
outlined his vision for building an organization that would offer disadvantaged youth a year of training and then place them in meaningful jobs with partnering corporations. As a student at HBS, Chertavian... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was shortening her View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
was eager to be a part of the cause his two brothers had already joined. It was “the job which he thought he should do,” his brother Bob explained. Green soon found his business know-how had earned him notice within the new Office of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
class. The case was all about this Australian train safety video that went viral. I remember someone showing it to me at a party in San Francisco and loving it. Like, ‘share it with everyone I knew for a week’ loving it. When we dove into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
constructing an elaborate campus? Why? What is it ignoring while it is engaged in celebrating itself? 5. Would you rather be conventionally wrong or unconventionally right? If you answer the latter, odds are you are in denial. “Think different” is what Steve View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government... View Details