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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
create an in-demand product. But finding that passion took years. Most of them spent working jobs that while rewarding in their own way, just didn't give him a spark. That all changed on a fateful business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
as any print version. Jacobson’s eureka moment came to him in the summer of 1995, after completing his postgraduate work at Stanford. With a job offer from MIT in hand, he spent a good amount of time reading on the beach. One day, after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
of patients sent home by hospitals with no access to care or food. With the mission statement “no one sleeps hungry in our community,” Jadhav recruited 50 volunteers, including medical doctors and business... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
again and seeing rows of students in Groucho Marx masks. For a photo, see here. 1983G. Our beloved ME prof, Bruce Greenwald, came to class every day wearing: a blue-and-red rep tie, khaki pants, and a light blue oxford shirt. (He still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this book shows how it’s done. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano PublicAffairs Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
to honor Keen's graduation from HBS in 1997. While recognizing his achievement, a grandfather figure told Keen to remember his roots and be wary of the outside world's worship of money. "It was a little embarrassing," Keen told me, "because I had been trying to get the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was an absolutely key pillar in the Business School, both in the mission sense — of getting our thoughts out and having an impact in the world — and in a financial sense,” says the School’s current Dean, Jay... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
in job training programs associated with the government's 1996 welfare-to-work program and IBM's education initiative as examples of this model. "We still have work to do, but there's been some breaking down of the suspicions and negative... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
of our sales, second only to France. But Club Med's penetration is still low in North America, so the region represents a tremendous opportunity for us. "Because we are in a business -- travel and leisure --... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out of college, and many of the men had View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the ground. He'd arrived there, and he'd looked around, and he'd made that very ominous radio call that everyone in my command could hear, which was, we've located Turbine 33, and there are no survivors. Then we knew that this was going to be purely a recovery mission.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Neurosmith’s ability to combine fun with learning. Just as Neurosmith was hitting its stride, however, the recession struck, wreaking havoc on the independent specialty stores. “Four of our top five retailers went out of View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens and a book on the topic in the works. In this excerpt from... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
become coaches. And so we created this acronym that the first "C" in "COACH" is to care about people. Because people are not going to listen to you until they know you care about them. And then I think our View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details