Partners - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2016
News

From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl

and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details

Portrait Project

Jason Gurwin

and think you're going to change the world. Other days, you lay awake in a cold sweat and question whether you have the energy to keep going. I've chosen to live a life of daily rejection. No, you're too small. No, you're too expensive. No, we won't invest in you. No,... View Details

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History - Health Care

Innovation Network" (HHIN) to promote health care innovation and entrepreneurship across the Harvard ecosystem 2018 HBS and Harvard School of Engineering Applied Sciences partner to offer the MS/MBA program 2020 Harvard launches the... View Details

01 Nov 2018
News

A Passion for Organization

jump to try and help Houston, and I decided I would wait till the crowds have died down and go when others may not be going and helping. I partnered with a nonprofit that was working to help gut these homes, and clean them out, and get... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)

Lawson, 27. "My partner and I were inexperienced managers, but we had a lot of energy and a solid business plan." Once she raised the seed capital, everything began to fall into place: she filled out the management team (including a CEO),... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Thompson Dean, MBA 1984

how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. Avista is currently... View Details

21 Sep 2015
News

Rockin’ for a Cause

Jeff Scheel (MBA 1990) would be the last person to downplay the fun of being guitarist and frontman for the Wildcats, a Palo Alto, California-based classic rock “dad band.” But the Symantec senior vice president and father of four is very serious about his band’s... View Details

Career Coach

Sarah Bua

organizational leadership effectiveness across multiple industries and geographies Prior to coaching, Sarah worked at Polaris Venture Partners on the start-up of a new venture with two internationally recognized scientists from MIT. At... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

firms have chosen to hire people with local experience and to often partner with a variety of key local firms. In PCMPCL, one of our reasons for choosing the top eighteen universities as our target audience is the belief that over time,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

region. We discovered that alumni are eager to share their expertise and learn from one another. Building on that success, BEI partnered with Alumni Relations to organize a conference in March 2020 on Risks, Opportunities, and Investment... View Details

29 May 2019
News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

useful,” says Engle. “The workshop was excellent and provided guidance on how to consider our goals, strengths, what we love to do, and what the ideal environment might be.” Andrews says that while the workshop tour is not specifically View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2014
News

Net Gains

league has held more than 500 grassroots events across 10 Indian cities, featuring instruction by current and former NBA players and coaches. Last year, the NBA partnered with the Reliance Foundation—the philanthropic arm of Reliance... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

14 Jan 2022
News

Power Play

founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners Sara Graziano (MBA 2011) and Chris Smith (MBA 2001), who contributed complementary skills from the energy sector, to establish the firm’s... View Details

Profile

Kimball Thomas

his undergraduate career, Kimball partnered with his cousin, Davis Smith, to seize the best business opportunity they could find. “We searched the news, talked to friends – looked at just about anything to see where could find something... View Details

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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting

the Tech Conference, or anything else you would like to share with current students, contact us at tech@studentclubs.hbs.edu . You Might Want to Read 26 Jun 2025 Partner with a Student Club 13 Mar 2025 Launching Leaders: HBS's New... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

same, but the scope has expanded from just research to helping business leaders take action to make America more competitive. The number of faculty involved has grown from 15 to almost 25, and a host of HBS alumni and corporate partners... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Robert Lehman

Lehman firmly hitched the bank’s future to consumption rather than production, and in so doing, he led Lehman Brothers to the number one position among New York investment firms. Under his leadership, the bank concentrated its investments on airlines, entertainment... View Details

Keywords: Finance

December 2011
Case

Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: James K. Sebenius and Kimberlyn Leary

The Abraham Path Initiative board faces strategic and negotiating challenges in revitalizing a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path 4000 years ago. The Path begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in modern-day Turkey, where Abraham first heard... View Details