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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
biotech firm, an HBS Blavatnik Fellowship provided a year of funding and transitional time to spend in the lab and assemble a team of scientists, clinicians, and managers. “When you’re attempting something no one has ever done before,... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
program. The second, or transactional, stage begins when the organizations start to regard each other as partners. For City Year and Timberland, this transition occurred when leaders of both groups realized they had similar visions of how... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
Cohen is considering a career transition into health care. "I'd like to apply my skills in marketing and communications to health and medical services. In particular, the e-health world is exploding with incredible opportunity." This... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Connecting with Clubs
later, preparing to move to Toronto, there had been no question in my mind that my first point of contact should be with the president of the HBS club there. The truly valuable connections developed through the Toronto club eased my View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
that going through a personal or professional transition is very much an individual process with a framework. I'd like to suggest a book called In Transition that has helped hundreds of Harvard MBAs. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the potential of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). But over time, BRT’s potential as a first-class, environmentally sound transit mode was forgotten. It was not until the late 1990s that BRT was “rediscovered” in... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
college, a good presence in the locker room, and the ability to compete in the classroom. But too often, Feickert says, these high-potential students lack “the recipe”—the knowledge they need to navigate the opaque college-recruitment process and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Morgan provides a candid account of the election and the later transition to democratic self-governance. He discusses the security measures protecting the election, which was a defeat for al-Qaeda and terrorist insurgents trying to hinder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the Executive Education Program, including The CEO Transition Workshop, Managing Business Transformation, Leading Professional Services Firms, and Strategic Human Resource Management. His research on mid- and late-life View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the development of "listserves" (mailing lists of like-minded people's e-mail addresses). Alumni Career Services HBS alumni are experiencing more transitions in their professional lives than in previous years. In fact, alumni are viewing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
beginning of a surreal period; it was all hands on deck, trying to keep the company on track. The former president, who had been planning to retire, returned as CEO. Three years later, my transition to lead the company was underway when I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
constructive dialogue between environmentalists and the rest of society. His own career path could have been a case study for the book. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tercek spent 21 years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In 2005, he began his... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
looking back at its heroic response to the pandemic. Still, it took a toll on the organization’s 77,000 caregivers, and the hospital would not meet its performance targets for the second year in a row. They had recently transitioned the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
essentially has moved into the outpatient setting,” Triola explains. “So while antibiotics will largely be initiated in a hospital setting, how do we set up transitions of care? How do we create pathways to ensure that our patients who... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
years kept pointing in that direction, and both of my parents had been teachers during their careers. When I felt I had the time and space to turn to something new, I sent out letters to colleges and universities in the Chicago area and started the third phase of my... View Details