Reflection - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

2001. However, combined revenues for these two business units increased 2.6 percent from fiscal 2002 and represented 54 percent of total revenues. In addition, endowment income rose 6 percent to $53 million, and MBA Program revenues rose 5 percent to $61 million, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Jul 2021

Women in Industry Series: Entrepreneurship

Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth? Learn from Professor Allison Mnookin why HBS is #1 in female founders and how HBS supports women hoping to start their own company. Hear from HBS female founders as they View Details

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

inevitably does not go according to plan. A unique feature of the course is the emphasis on community – with your fellow students as well as alumni. You will have access to alumni and their lived experiences. There are a multitude of interactions with both alumni 10+... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

HBS Alumni Board

Members of the HBS Alumni Board (photo by Russ Campbell) The Alumni Board is a diverse group of alumni who keep abreast of new developments at HBS and serve as advocates for alumni engagement with the School. The 85-person board reflects... View Details

25 Mar 2019
News

Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club

Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed the company’s valuation to $1... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2005
News

Change of Pace

Having retired from Congress after representing his western New York district for eighteen years, Amory Houghton Jr. (MBA ’52) is now working as a volunteer with his old friend, Bishop Thomas Shaw, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. “The arrangement View Details

Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Jul 2022
News

High Flyer

Partners in Argentina, reflects on his extreme life, explains why “fear is his friend,” and breaks down why cold calls and jumping out of a plane have a lot in common. View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables

representatives of this group who reflect on the challenges they have faced and — often with humor — place their professional accomplishments in the context of other activities that give meaning to their lives. Scott Cook John Doerr... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

functional support units. Business units to customers: The priorities of the customer value proposition are communicated to targeted customers and reflected in specific customer feedback and measures. Business support units to suppliers... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

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Karl Reid Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Question Zero: What Are We Trying to Accomplish and Why? Reflections on SPNM 2018 Karl... View Details

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Yael Gilboa Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results We’re All on the Same Team: Reflections from SOCAP17 Yael Gilboa 09 Nov 2017 A few... View Details

15 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners

energy around shaping its investment strategy, and my role reflected this dynamic environment. My responsibilities spanned two main areas: supporting fund strategy by conducting deep dives into new markets and verticals that might offer... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Profile

Yaping Wang

lot of reflection after I became a mom," Yaping says. (Her daughter, Evelyn, is now five.) "Women shouldn't always have to compromise on a career. I saw my own mother's regrets, and I want to be a role model for my... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Healthcare/Biotech; Retail/Hospitality

01 Dec 2018
News

Lifelong Learning about Leadership

careers and lives, and the other utilizes HBS’s online learning platform to share the School’s pedagogy with broader audiences. More than 70 MBA alumni from the classes of 1995– 2005—all seasoned professionals at an inflection point—returned to campus for The View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves

Long a mainstay of the required MBA curriculum at HBS, the General Management (GM) course has been renamed and retooled. Its new name, The Entrepreneurial Manager (EM), reflects a sharpened focus on topics crucial to creating and managing... View Details

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

reflects on how another devastating health-related crisis—the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016—influenced her decision to pursue economic development to make a lasting impact on the African continent, which... View Details

Portrait Project

Adam Nathan

"Hit!" 24 paddles across four boats enter the glassy water in silent fury. In mine, six sinewy arms extend as one, our strength lifting us forward. Minutes later, coach's distant scream: "Stop!" Our competition dots the pink horizon behind us, View Details

01 Oct 2018
News

Learning About Leadership

Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Studies for Your Commute

practice of management? These are a few of the questions that will be answered in the new HBS podcast Cold Call, available this month via iTunes. “We want this podcast to reflect what is unique and distinctive about HBS,” says Brian... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

24 Apr 2014
News

Multiple generations of computing

computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data. In reflecting on her career trajectory, Dubinsky says: “It’s... View Details

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