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12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

members of their own communities." In the mid-1970s, Lazarus was looking for a position in government and having a hard time finding one that would give him the broad experience he was seeking. By chance, he... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground

name inspired by the Roman philosopher’s civic-minded teachings—has grown into a successful company with offices in Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Washington, DC, offering big data and analytics services to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

assumed leadership responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

HBS to recognize social enterprise as a field of study? Clark: As government shrinks, a greater role will have to be played by the private sector. As the world becomes more complex, community-based organizations will need the leadership... View Details

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Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog

questions: What is unique about family businesses compared to other kinds of companies? Are they more vulnerable to failure? What are the main types of family businesses and how does leadership vary across them? What kind of View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to... View Details

04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Harvard alumni living in Mexico and elsewhere and the other half from corporate donations, mainly from Mexican companies. Harvard provided matching funds to the first $1 million, as part of an initiative to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military View Details

25 Jun 2018
News

An Unfinished Story

In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country... View Details

Keywords: April White

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

silk-screened our printed circuit boards with real silk on wooden frames...; [we] made our own tools; we swept the floors." 44 In their 1957 plan, Olsen and Anderson outlined the steps toward the creation of... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

Covington. It’s far enough outside Atlanta that you’ll see cows grazing in fields just beyond the school entrance. But it has a big-city student enrollment of 2,300 and six assistant principals. One of them, Carla Hull, walks us to a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

and Jones—suave, dispassionate, and an accountant by background—had been named in several polls as the most outstanding CEO in America as well as a true business statesman in his efforts to build bridges... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that... View Details

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

and national security issues worsened in part by migration out of newly unlivable situations. How can investors, businesses, and global society face these issues? Governments... View Details

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

of Business Administration Noam T. Wasserman , Associate Professor of Business Administration Honorary Chairs Jim Breyer – Accel Partners and Breyer Capital Karen Gordon Mills – Harvard Business School Arthur Rock – Founder of the Arthur... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

at six contextual factors that shaped business during the last century and continue to shape it in our present century: government regulation, labor, globalization, technology, demography, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

a record of racist or misogynist or homophobic tendencies. Boards of directors afflicted by conflict or indifference will sometimes look the other way at the actions of their management teams. All of this, of course, is unacceptable. And,... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

continued to connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, after 20 years in... View Details

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