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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
what I wished they were, and I was marginalizing things that should probably be more important to me. And I said, “What the hell, man?” On a plane one day, I overheard one of the most famous men in the world confessing to his wife that he... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
3 million fans a year, as it has done for nine of its eleven seasons at AT&T Park. However, in an industry where filling the airwaves has become as important as filling the stands, Baer’s brokering of a partnership in a regional sports... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
market—and we have to electrify it. And to do that, we have to solve the storage issue. “So, given that technology is going to change, I think the most important things to learn at HBS are how to manage teams and interface with others in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
filter into their retirement. “One thing that my family drilled into me at a super-young age was the importance of education,” says Akuete. She was lucky, she notes, having won the “geographic lottery” simply by being born in the States... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
aired on YouTube. Throughout the crisis, the HBS Fund has been essential—enabling the School to deploy resources quickly wherever they are needed most. That flexibility has always been a hallmark of the HBS Fund, and it’s what makes gifts to the HBS Fund more View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired. In these markets, the most important thing is to be first, to win that Cadillac. If you’re not that leader, there’s little room to build a great business. If someone were to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
critical perspective of an outsider who sees the need for real change. Building inside-outsiders means managing succession to bring to the fore leaders who will challenge their strategic inheritance. Since succession planning is so View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
the underserved. “I’ve been blessed, and I believe very strongly in the importance of giving.” Smart money: The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, a new World Bank financial program that provides surge funding to prevent a disease... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
fundamental importance of education to the future of the individual and the community, he stressed the value of very early education (from prenatal to age three), teacher/principal development and training, and mentoring relationships for... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
medium, and large clubs and that are sustainable for the long term. In addition to these committees, ad hoc groups are undertaking important tasks. In particular, the Global Alumni Conferences committee is charged with keeping current... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
to see the School move forward on an effort to take — I hope — a leadership position and promote discussion and action on some of the most critical problems facing the world in the 21st century. I hope you will focus a major part of your efforts on developing answers... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Stavropoulos, MBA class of 1997. Any ideas about how to help, let's say young teenagers or kids sort of recognize and potentially arm themselves against FOMO and FOBO? McGinnis: This is a very important topic because it's just so... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
launched in 2019—and a development he sees as part of the larger trend of homegrown, Asia-founded technology companies expanding into Western markets. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Why was it important to you to do this in India, and what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
those firms operating outside the major coastal cities, “the most important thing you can do is to get to know the local government officials, because they can be your biggest ally in growing your business.” Peering into the future,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
use marginal farmland. “The reason that’s critical is because it’s an important source of incremental income for a farm,” Cummings explains. He wants to support the Davids of the sustainable food world that have long lived in the shadows... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
they were trying to use it for things we hadn’t expected them to,” Medina recalls. The software also lacked the guardrails necessary to prevent a user from accidentally deleting important records. One day, a client called with exactly... View Details