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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

fatal It is the courage to continue that counts Resilience will allow you to aim high, act boldly, and build the resolve to persevere when you fail. Of all the attributes I admire in leaders and entrepreneurs, resilience is very high on... View Details

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

exclusion. This is in keeping with our long-standing social compact to live and let live, allow a variety of cultures to thrive, and refrain from interfering with freedom of expression—an admirable reflection of the American ideal. And... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

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Malory Mclemore

Space. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My father the United States Marine, firefighter, and entrepreneur. My dad did not go to college, but he is the most entrepreneurial and hard-working leader that I... View Details

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

My Time at HBS After 500 cases over two years though, I’ve realized that the most important thing for me is the idea of service driven leadership - those are the types of case protagonists I vividly remember and admire the most. It’s the... View Details

13 May 2021
Blog Post

Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech Leader Turned Healer

feared feeling judged by her classmates back on campus, Zhalisa instead felt admired by her peers, even those who she’d assumed were happier and more successful than she. Soon after, Zhalisa decided to return to work and to fulfill her... View Details

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

Admiral Norvell Ward, who commanded a fleet of 52 supply ships deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, supporting US troops in Vietnam. It was there that he observed a tragedy that only added to a series of hints at what would become his later... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Victoria Papalian

purest form of that type of environment. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A teacher. What is your favorite childhood memory? Lining up my stuffed animals and teaching them math in pursuit of my dream to become a teacher. Who is one person from your... View Details

22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

recognized that it took tireless leadership and volunteer commitment by alumni throughout our club’s history,” Stidman says. “He expressed his heartfelt admiration and appreciation for the club. Just the fact that he took the time to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

lived together so many years, and I had seen so much of his noble traits, that I had the highest admiration for him.” 39 During this time the brothers experienced transformations in the firm and the China trade itself. By the 1870s the... View Details

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2019
News

Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991

progression through the ranks. In 2005, he was named chief of Naval Operations, and two years later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked him to serve as the country’s highest-ranking military commander. Having spent most of his career in the military, the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2018
News

Preparing Global Leaders

Advisory Board since April 2017, a post that has helped him understand the needs of the School more fully and also inspired this recent gift. “We admire the values that the institution represents and strongly believe that the School’s... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer

At a special reception in New York City in early March, a distinguished group of friends, relatives, and admirers of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33) gathered at the home of Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57) to consider plans for the... View Details

11 Jun 2015
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Making connections at Harvard and beyond

organizations, and ideas—at the Business School and beyond—in ways that will maximize their positive impact on the world. “One of the things I admire most about our graduates is their tendency to go wherever there are opportunities to... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

editor’s remarks in “The MBA at a Crossroads,” as well as the comments regarding the book Rethinking the MBA. My use of and admiration for the MBA I received decades ago remains, and I would not change it one bit. I see business being... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Leadership That Defines you – Reflecting on my Time at HBS

me to dive into that more deeply. After 500 cases over two years though, I’ve realized that the most important meaning for me is the idea of service driven leadership - those are the types of case protagonists I vividly remember and View Details

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

that is indistinguishable from panic."6 Almost everyone has colleagues who seem to fit this description: their energy, focus, and productivity are extraordinary—they are the first in the building and the last out—but even their View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

so the work in both industries naturally appealed to that part of my personality. The people I admired most were the ones on the other side of the table—people who had built, operated and turned around companies—and I was fortunate to get... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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