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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
other schools accepted only men. "One of the men used a mild bit of profanity, then looked at me and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry.' The professor very wisely said, 'Mrs. Wilkinson has worked at IBM. She's heard all those words before.' "... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
going to prison,’ instead of pitching them on my company,” says Blakeman. Once you’ve told your story, connect the dots to the social problem that needs to be fixed. “This is a tragedy that affects many more people than me,” Blakeman... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
than 90 faculty members at HBS have some connection to the initiative—doing research or teaching a course that relates to the themes of social enterprise, for example. Many of our students are deeply engaged—we have eight different... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the campaign to make India open-defecation-free connects with a growing trend in green finance. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Naina, when you were leading HSBC, you had the opportunity to represent the bank at conferences, touching on issues... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
professional and personal—we need either to transfer knowledge we have built up over years of experience from our heads to someone else's (our children, a junior colleague, a peer) or we have the reverse need: to somehow access those bits... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
forward! But needs some obvious improvements.” (9) The letter begins with Adams’s confession of being “a bit woozy” after a party, noting that his “noble son hath prepared a hot toddy today which has worked wonders and the cranial... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
‘42—I was five and a half years old. Morrell: Tell us about that day. The feelings you had, the scene itself. Hajim: The few things you remembered in your life. I remember that one because I couldn't figure out, you know, dad was away quite a View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
was adopted by the World Bank and other institutions. Finally, in an effort that posed unique performance measurement challenges, 250 schools were either constructed or rehabilitated. "The outcome of investments in education, such as those we made in Ghana, can be a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
impact over time or over a lifetime, or shaping sort of a young person growing up who, I don't know, back in my day, would have been maybe listening to the Grateful Dead and so maybe ended up being a bit progressive. Now, you know, here... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
you go back into economic sociology studies and studies of wage gaps, you find that you can pull out those situations that are fairly unambiguous and say that there aren't gaps. But if you go into those situations and industries in which there is quite a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
for a number of months. And at some point, I realized I had tens of thousands of words that I had written down. And I sent it to him, kind of packaged it up and sent it to him. Didn’t call it anything, but I was like, Byron, this is starting to look a little View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower that spans the Pinheiros River... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
into. White: So you describe in the book a lot of the hedonism of the Mutiny club, but once you subtract the bathtub of champagne, you really are actually telling a business story, which is your background. Can you describe a little bit... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
temporary trail only passable in the winter, of course. The wind's howling and everything’s bare. It's just, it’s wild. Mile 500 started being a little bit challenging because I got frostbite and for a little while I wasn't sure if I was... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
model, its message, and its impact on people’s lives.” Dubin adds that while the virtual event was “a bit different,” it reached more people as a webcast, and clips from the recorded conversation with Jeong will be made available online... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
to Skullcandy’s survival.” Would you say you mostly follow trends or create them? A little bit of both. We certainly are aware of trends that exist, but great brands and great product companies are always innovating and leading their... View Details