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18 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

healthcare. I knew that I was looking at working for a fast-paced healthcare startup after graduation in a strategic role, so I had to gain some experience quickly! My second term I opted to take a more "classic HBS"... View Details

Student-Profile

Filippo Mezzanotti

quality of my fellow classmates. Each student in the program has a very unique background in terms of previous academic and work experience, as well as different research interests, but we are all involved in creating a positive,... View Details

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How to Register & Key Dates | New Venture Competition

Past Pitches : View past Student and Alumni NVC pitches Register for the New Venture Competition Before you register with ReviewR, a third party website, please read ReviewR’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. When using this... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and the man credited with coining... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Giving Kids a Better Chance

it's the most important issue. “There are just millions of wonderful kids who right now are not getting a great education. People always think about education as something separate. At the end of the day, it's a big organization in terms... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Not a Regular Joe

term is that he was a “servant leader.” Once a year he would go on the manufacturing floor and talk to every single person. It would take four weeks. But he remembered who they were, knew their names and faces, and remembered something... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Joe Wilson; Xerox; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Feb 2020
News

Ink: Your Best Self

and peace—came out of taking a big step back and looking at all the different leaders I’ve worked with and the common denominators in terms of successful leadership. My greatest hope with these five principles is that they address the... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 May 2017
News

How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, which deals in part with Sandberg’s coming to terms with the death of her husband David Goldberg in 2015. After her loss, the article notes, Sandberg felt “isolated” at... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

in terms of its capacity for consumer impact, social change, and policy influence." Langer's unflagging dedication to her work and those whom she serves would be remarkable under any circumstances. But incredibly, five years ago, her... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

increase in information technology purchases. Wulf notes that the 1986-1999 time frame was especially significant in terms of corporate technology. The 1990s marked an era when PC prices started falling, when dot-com companies started... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

courage to finally do so myself. The Social Enterprise Fellowship has provided tremendous resources that have allowed me to improve the program and guided me toward the longer term thinking that is necessary to scale and continue the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Achievement Awards

through education. Armed with a great education, it doesn’t matter where you came from. What I would say to younger people who are thinking about what they want to do in life is do something you’re passionate about. And then you’ll achieve success and happiness on... View Details

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

has more than paid off, in terms of their pioneering work in muscle biology and professional development.” Family and Lifelong HBS Friends The winner of the 2014 Lou Gehrig Iron Horse Award from the ALS Therapy Development Institute, a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

this regard at one time or another. How do the great service organizations avoid this? Sasser: It starts with creating great—not always comfortable—places to work for people who are customer oriented, then populating them with the right people in View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

Alumni WDYDWYD

Mary Falvey

consultant to the firm characterized it this way: "Electing a woman partner requires changing the concept of not only what a partner is but also what a woman is." Hello, "glass ceiling" (a term that hadn’t been coined... View Details

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

increases during peaks of the private equity cycles. In particular, deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than other deals when the parent bank is part of the lending syndicate, especially during... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

the predictive value of a theory can be measured in terms of how many pairs of experimental subjects you would have to observe playing a previously unexamined game before the mean of the experimental observations would provide a better... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

Reichheld, The Loyalty Effect). Instead of joining a debate, many respondents decried the misuse of the term "customer loyalty management" and superficial attempts to manage the phenomenon. In the view of Theresa Quintanilla,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)

work tirelessly to make sure that HBS women are supported in their professional endeavors. The WSA has become known for their “final review sessions,” where RC (first-year) women take the stage in Klarman Hall and present the content covered during the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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