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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I first View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
directions and lose its focus. Of course, throughout my entire three years in OPM, I was always referred to as the guy in heat. Arch was right on: it wasn’t long before my lack of focus caused my business to stutter, but I was able to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
part of the HBS experience: students, by the example of their own lives, informing and learning from each other. Mamongae Mahlare Mahlare at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Some trailblazers smash down barricades; others, like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
governments often do, which is to throw money at entrepreneurs without creating an environment that is hospitable to entrepreneurship. You’ve written that government stimulus packages sometimes fail because they are directed by a “herd... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
learnings captured in his recent book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies. READ MORE Flint: Why don't we start by talking about what you mean by deep purpose and how it’s different from the mission statements... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
difficult to clearly integrate with MCC's precise directive of focusing on activities that lead to poverty reduction through economic growth. "The MCC has been explicit in setting boundaries around initiatives that it believes will lead... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Meredith Weenick. "It was really rewarding to walk into an organization and immediately start using skills I'd learned in school, while also making a direct contribution to HLW's operations and strategic... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
thought I was being victimized," he remembers. "But when I went to talk to him about it after that fourth time, he said he just thought I had done a very good job, and he wanted to bring out my comments as much as possible. Well, I View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
hosting regional events around the world giving attendees the opportunity to learn from faculty members about their current research, listen to inspiring alumni stories from campaign leaders, and hear an overview of the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
an economic crisis erupts, something that has happened with regularity. Nor does it stop governments from intervening at the risk of doing more harm than good. Few, it seems, learn from the lessons of history. In Ferguson’s view, the real... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
years, which had focused on new directions for the School. These included rebuilding the self-confidence of the tenured faculty, and creating a shared sense that the School’s mission was still valid and powerful. “The absence of a broad... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
better or simply adapt to the status quo. What’s more important, growth or excellence? Action or analysis? Being direct or saving face? Strategy drops hints, but it’s culture that has the definitive answers. THE WAY FORWARD See more from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
frame in which these radical changes and directions or redirections in economic policy are going to take place. The issue, if there is one, has to do with timing and phasing, rather than with ultimate objectives and purpose.” Nair... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
enabled the organization to grow fast and in whatever direction was needed. He believed in running into any burning building—but he didn’t necessarily believe in org charts or anything that was constraining. “Mercy Corps had always seen... View Details