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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
it "dress casual." So, we combined that need with our equity, and we found our mission. Defining a mission is just the beginning. How about the implementation phase? We started with the product. We took inventory of what we had and found... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers? Every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, but actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep, says Professor John Quelch. Here’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using an online platform to reinvent education
With more than 350 million lessons delivered worldwide, on everything from arithmetic and physics to history and art, Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is on a mission to provide a free education for anyone, anywhere, through his not-for-profit Khan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
fresh approaches to problems. The distinction caused a ruckus at HBS, which saw itself as a school of management. But the article held sway, winning Zaleznik the McKinsey Award for the best HBR article that year. Eventually, HBS would redefine its View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
a large failing school in the Bronx. Seeing the students have to walk through metal detectors, seeing the teachers struggling to teach with even the most basic resources lacking, really inspired me on an emotional level that this is something I want to do. “Education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
What Are They Thinking?
The Leadership Initiative, whose mission is to ensure that the School remains at the forefront of leadership R&D, has two projects under way that focus on young people. Using interviews, self-assessment exercises, and periodic... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
Laurie Leonard (MBA 1977) is executive director of End of Life Choices New York, a nonprofit advocacy, counseling, and educational organization. In the following interview, she discusses the group’s mission and her reasons for serving.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Baker Library Gets New Executive Director
preparing for the reopening next summer, Kennedy has started work on a three-year strategic plan. “Baker serves a variety of customers, and they all use information differently and connect with people differently,” Kennedy explains. “Meeting their needs in the context... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
help veterans gain the skills they need to thrive in civilian life and to continue their mission of serving others,” says York. Tabitha Strobel (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) Tabitha Strobel (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) RECIPIENT:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
management education as a way of achieving that goal.” Over nearly two decades, SEI has developed from a visionary concept to a mainstay in the School’s mission of developing business leaders who are concerned not only with the bottom... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
'97), senior director of business development at Brodia, is the point at which her company intends to turn online shopping on its head. "Our mission is to commerce-enable the consumer - putting control back into their hands. Many Internet... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
possibilities, and in making this gift, my son is inspiring that spirit of possibility in others." Commenting on the gift, Dean Kim B. Clark said, "Rufus Lumry's career personifies the mission of the Harvard Business School to provide... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
financial history. Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) is on a mission to change that. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
created by working as colleagues on this project." "And last but by no means least," Sasser adds, "EDP gives our faculty the very rewarding sense that they are contributing to improving an organization whose only mission is to help poor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Celebrating HBS
Noting that HBS is educating students now for a vastly more globalized and challenging world economy, Dean Clark traced the School’s mission to its beginnings, when creating an educational community dedicated to skilled and thoughtful... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
Since the launch of The Harvard Business School Campaign on April 25, 2014, more than 5,000 alumni and guests have come together to celebrate the School and its mission at regional events around the world and the Campaign’s website has... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
wrong consequences.” Leadership, central to the mission of HBS and other top schools, can’t be taught in a classroom, he contends. Mihnea Moldoveanu (DBA ’97) of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management maintains that the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
world’s problems, and look at those problems as opportunities.” Jeff Sandefer (MBA 1986), teacher and founder of the Acton School of Business and Acton Academy, also offered poignant remarks as the guest speaker, drawing from his entrepreneurial journey and his vision... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
rerouted, another mission was scrubbed to assist near Abu Ghraib, and both convoys returned safely. To learn more about these five HBS alumni, click on their photos below: Maura Corby Sullivan Taking lessons learned in Iraq to HBS and... View Details