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- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
the uncomfortable moments. The ability to have a difficult conversation is a necessary social skill that mature leaders have to develop. Knowing someone is deceptive is quite different from knowing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social entrepreneurial skills to a corporate board that wants a unique perspective. “I would love to see the day where we don’t have to talk about achievement gap, technical divide, or schools-to-prisons... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
and it opened my eyes and I just loved the class." Morrison believes every skill she learned at HBS has helped her at some point. But the class she says made most impact was Competition and Strategy, taught by Andrall Pearson. "He taught... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
for a way to bring his Harvard business skills to bear on a cause he believed in. That led to a post as the CFO of New Hampshire Audubon, where he “quickly fixed some problems due to lack of financial controls” and put the organization on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
who their competitors are around the world, which is a reflection of their own ambitions.” Growing Internet usage and changing social behavior have also created opportunities. WestBridge has invested in Travelguru, an online travel portal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
job in the office of San Francisco's then Mayor Dianne Feinstein opened his eyes to the skills he really needed. "I was working on some complicated subsidized housing plans," he says. "It became shockingly apparent that I did not... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
Ron Mitchell says his most valuable learning experience at HBS did not take place in the classroom. Rather, it emerged from his work as student government president. "That's where I learned about working with people in a political and professional environment and about... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
self-confidence in financial skills improved by significant amounts, jumping as much as 50 to 60 percent. As an unexpected side benefit, Maynard notes that middle school and high school teachers are also using the games to teach students... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
Gehrke: Supporting schools with an eclectic incubator. Photo courtesy Judy Gehrke Every Sunday, on a block of Manhattan’s Columbus Avenue between West 76th and 77th streets, an event takes place that is part business incubator, part View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
resilience,” says the son of a dentist who grew up in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Chertavian’s philosophy is at the core of Year Up, the extraordinary nonprofit he founded that helps economically disadvantaged young adults gain View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
appreciated as well!” Do you use what you learned at HBS in your current work? “Every day. There are tangible ways that I use skills from HBS, when I reflect on lessons from marketing to try to figure out how to acquire more ‘customers’... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
transition back to full-time employment? Those who are really “ready to go” want a personalized plan plus a timely update on key business skills such as marketing, accounting, finance, social enterprise, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Chairman, Social Investment Task force, Bridges Community Ventures, & The Portland Trust Cofounder & Former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Oxford University, 1967 M.A.,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
hoping to test out a special area of interest or potential career path. Others looked abroad, pursuing their interests in solving business and social problems in the developing world. Canadians Alyza Keshavjee and Ameel Somani spent their... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very specific skill sets, medical training, logistics experience. I didn't have those, so I had to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
University of Houston professor, and Shara Bumgarner, a Houston elementary school teacher. Melcher located some classroom space and then watched as her daughter began to acquire social and communication View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
strong when there is a lot of social reinforcement and a strong corporate culture, which was certainly the case at Baxter, as well as at many other kinds of companies today that hire large cohorts of young MBAs. If you’re new to your job... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
collective that is devoted to teaching skills of fire arts, and welding, and building, and leadership, in particular for women, but for anyone who wants to join in. So what they built was a 60-foot long flame-throwing dragon who was... View Details