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- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital
from home, first to Italy and then to Michigan for five years with another 1.5-year detour back to Italy along the way. After seven years living outside of Canada, Memme knew it was time to come home to be near his family, which would... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
noteworthy. In a plenary session titled "The Economic Crisis in Asia," Sugisaki urged Asian authorities to lower barriers to trade and investment and to close insolvent financial institutions and restructure those that are weak. "The key area that needs to be tackled... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
mandate of modernizing the IRS was Rossotti, who was recruited by then U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and other top government officials because of his experience in running a major service- and technology-oriented business. Approved in 1997 by a Senate vote... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
overall, we’ll continue to do a good job for our clients and grow the business. What does “accountability” mean in the context of running a financial firm? Tell the truth, serve people, have integrity. Have the ability, guts, and courage... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Datar—implemented a clear strategy: Maintain the quality of the educational experience by investing in hybrid and virtual classroom technologies; protect jobs by reducing noncritical expenses and holding salaries level; and lay the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
thing in common: Harvard MBAs. Visitors to Crawford, Texas, get presidential treatment. A billboard with the town’s most famous part-time resident, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), gives the “thumbs-up” while First Lady Laura Bush... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
designing various auction processes that treat differently the questions of what is bought, from whom, and at what price. "In order to try to re-liquefy the markets, get some price discovery and begin to understand what these assets are worth. It is a big View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
support from their existing providers, and a sense of isolation — all reaching a crescendo at a time when the burdens of their professional and family lives felt heaviest. This topic, which might have seemed esoteric at first blush, is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
them had experience launching a new venture. None of them knew how to adjust a strategy when the first one didn’t work. None had had to figure out how to make a brand-new product profitable before growing it big. The Pandesic team had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
in companies like Check Point, one of the first big firewall companies. Rothrock listened to the speech and thought: “Finally.” As in, at last—the government is waking up to a reality that the tech community realized long ago. “The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Prospects from small schools are being hurt even more. The first ever HBCU Combine was cancelled, many college pro days were cancelled, and with the NFL cancelling in-person interviews the hurdles faced by HBCU and other small school... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
senior partner at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart. He offers advice on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, negotiating compensation, cultivating a mentor, and knowing when to change jobs or industries. Sunset... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
held the top job at Ford for only two months when President John F. Kennedy tapped him to run the Department of Defense. McNamara agreed, saying at the time that he wanted to “bring efficiency to a $40 billion enterprise.” With the US... View Details
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When Generations Learn Together
one way for us to maintain our collegiality and grow together. He's working in private equity and that's about 20 percent of where I spend my time, so we often collaborate and exchange thoughts. Attending a program together was a way to expand that. (BS): Our View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
I’d get to experience all of that. In my first week, I participated in a meeting with an entrepreneur pitching their startup. By the end of the week, the Underscore team decided to invest, and I was charged with quarterbacking the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for the book. “It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right. It doesn't seem like I'm... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg