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- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
addition to my interests in tech and startups, I have also always been passionate about politics and government. In 2020, I left my VC job and joined the Biden-Harris Transition Team, before continuing on to join the White View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
staff, and MBA and doctoral students—the campus feels like a small town. (This number excludes the more than nine thousand yearly executive-education enrollees, who typically spend only a few weeks on campus, as well as residents of student View Details
Keywords: Education
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
taha ajmi/Unsplash Until the last year or so, the term "recency bias" was rarely a topic of cocktail conversation—unless it was a gathering of behavioral scientists letting their hair down. But then a news item surfaced about certain View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass ceiling that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
progression from the 1925 McKim, Mead & White footprint for the first residential business school in America to an array of HBS projects slated for completion by 2023, he emphasizes the importance of continuity and symmetry. “When the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
book titled Ironclaw (the radio call sign of his carrier squadron). He completed the nonfiction account in 1995 during the last year of a final tour of duty in Washington, D.C., that included positions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
GAYLORD, Boston Ballet NINA HARSTAD, Equal Justice Initiative VI MAI, MBTA ALEJANDRO MOLINA, the White House National Economic Council RACHEL OROL, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts SAMI PAL, Coney... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
years as Bonn bureau chief. Seeking a better understanding of policymaking, she applied to the White House Fellows program in 1996 and was chosen to be special assistant to the FCC chairman. Choi... View Details
- Profile
Scott Wu
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?
team is eager to share with Smart’s management the product recommendations that we have created and packaged in a polished PowerPoint presentation. How did a formerly rag-tag group of unfamiliar individuals, consisting of a creative advertiser, a View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
posts—the movement seems to have reached a critical media mass. In June, the White House announced more than $1.5 billion in impact investment commitments from more than 20 private investors—including the... View Details
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Barbara Hackman Franklin Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
So it was a question of really learning how to think in a new way that has stuck with me, and has been very important to my career." Barbara Hackman Franklin created the first White House effort to recruit... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
the moments in which you discount the words of Black students or when you overlook Black students for opportunities. Commit to understanding and combatting the way racism and white supremacy shape our institutions. If you teach real... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
enroll at HBS. "With minorities now present in most professions, I see a lot of promise for white and black America to come together," he says. "I also believe it's possible to help people who are downtrodden and desperate to transform... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details