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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
buzz. Of course, high positions still provide opportunities; a President of the United States has a bully pulpit and can use it to command attention. But attention will be ephemeral if his actions don’t earn respect. Hierarchy’s last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
ever thought would take place. The interviews in this book provide ... specific examples of what successful collaborations look like. This book is more than a collection of interviews; it’s a testament to people who not only responded to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
leadership. Instead we find that CEO turnover is up, and that the number of outsiders brought in to do the job is increasing. How could this be? The answer appears to be as depressing as its consequences. Companies are not making the investment required to View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
Harmoni could provide drug-free therapy for people suffering from illnesses like depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or Tourette syndrome, with its exacting approach alleviating concerns about side effects from... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments, which rely on the business to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Francisco Free Clinic, an organization that provides free health care to the needy and is run by one of their children. The proud grandparents of twelve, Warren and Chris Hellman have a seemingly endless amount of energy. When a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
cross-cultural initiatives at Harvard. Committed to enabling young people to reach their potential, Lemann co-founded Fundação Estudar to provide scholarships for Brazilian students. He also heads a family foundation that supports... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked down without regard to their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
nonprofits. At least half of our graduates between ten and fifteen years out are quite involved with nonprofits. They might not be directly engaged as leaders, but they sit on boards, provide donations, and serve as volunteers. And they... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
source of support for me,” she says, it is impossible to place a dollar value on the connections to her classmates, the alumni she’s gotten to know since graduating, and the HBS faculty. “Jan Rivkin instilled a lifelong love of strategy,” she notes. In an effort to pay... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
there's been 45 major fire hydrant recalls the United States. Only half of those have actually been addressed and fixed. “The reason why the other half haven't been fixed is because cities don't know where their fire hydrants are. Our solutions, and what we View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system: View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
development and investment with gusto. "It was intellectually challenging and enabled me to provide my family with an interesting and privileged life," he says, noting that he and his children traveled all over the world together during... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
quickly, to more than 200 employees. And GiveDirectly continues to push the envelope, recently announcing a universal basic income pilot in East Africa with the goal of providing regular cash payments to poor households over more than 10... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
affairs. Working with area companies and institutions, The Partnership facilitates interactions among current and emerging leaders and provides opportunities for individuals to share their knowledge and skills to bring about change in the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
company, last fall Robinson joined PRT, a global firm that provides information technology solutions and services to Fortune 500 companies. He stepped in to help lead PRT's initial public offering just after its revenues had soared from... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as a School, as a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing services... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
Deighton observes that most students would agree that Patterson needs to broaden his reader base, and that the publishing industry should get away from the agricultural or “broadcast” mode of marketing, which provides little feedback on... View Details