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21 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023

opportunities so that students can see how the topic of climate integrates into everything here at HBS. We want to ensure that as many students as possible have access to the most up to date perspectives on climate.” Over the course of four days, the faculty team View Details

24 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Organization

About LASO The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and Latino heritage,... View Details

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Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA

Tokyo Sumo Stable, a house where Sumo wrestlers live and train for years before competing nationally. Sumo stables are wrapped in tradition and guarded heavily by a veil of secrecy. We were so lucky to be able to actually visit a stable and view an entire practice! The... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

guidance from our professors and discovery on the ground.” Led by Meg Rithmire, the F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, and Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in... View Details

27 Oct 2020
News

HBS Votes

in our country and wanted to leverage our abilities to work towards solutions. What started as purely grassroots networking with peers has led to thousands of followers on Instagram, over 175 people committing to be poll workers, many... View Details

04 Feb 2020
News

In Harmony

who may eventually perform on the stages he’s led throughout his career. A CEO’s role in the arts, notes Weinstein, is exactly the same as a CEO’s role in the for-profit world. The only difference is how he or she defines the ROI. “It’s... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

sports conferences in the world, the two-day event in 2018 brought 3,500 participants to Boston in February and included a conversation with President Barack Obama, led by Gelman and Morey. Gelman chairs the conference, working closely... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

mission, a focus on the needs and aspirations of employees, and a well-defined industry niche. This interest led to his coauthoring The Winning Performance with Richard E. Cavanagh (MBA 1970), who later served as executive dean of the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

leather that is produced through sustainable, non-polluting practices. Many years later, it’s gratifying to see the positive results of that project.” As CEO of Competitiveness.com until 2012, Duch personally led more than 120 of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Elevate The book explains the fault lines that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes some... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

16 Jul 2013
News

Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2004
News

David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation

in connection with combat operations against the enemy as Officer-in- Charge, Task Force “Bold Eagle Bravo,” I Marine Expeditionary Force on 20 March 2003. While under sustained indirect mortar fire and sporadic small arms fire, in conditions of limited visibility,... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

16 Jun 2016

HBS Information Session in Brasilia

This session will be led by HBS alumni who will discuss their experience in the Harvard Business School MBA Program. Topics to be covered include the academic experience, HBS community and alumni network. Check-in for the event will begin... View Details

Bowman Gray

Gray developed the famous advertising slogan for Camel cigarettes: “I’d walk a mile for a Camel.” An early radio advertiser, Gray sponsored the Camel Pleasure Hour in the 1930s. Gray led the campaign against Lucky Strike, which vied with... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

15 Dec 2015
News

Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)

says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during... View Details

Ambrose Monell

Monell led International Nickel through a major re-capitalization program in 1910. Through this effort, he laid the foundation for building a vertically integrated metal processing operation. Under his leadership, Monell produced a... View Details

Keywords: Metals

Robert H. Sorensen

Sorensen led Perkin-Elmer to become one of the premier diversified technology companies in the United States. It developed the first commercial super minicomputer in 1979. During his CEO tenure, sales and earnings more than tripled and... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Donald W. Nyrop

After a distinguished career in law, which led him to the top positions at both the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, Nyrop joined the ailing Northwest Airlines with hopes of turning it around. Instituting... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

William Bernbach

Bernbach catapulted the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency into national prominence with innovative and creative campaigns. Doyle Dane Bernbach broke into the front ranks of advertising agencies with successful national campaigns for Volkswagen and Avis Rent A Car... View Details

Keywords: Services

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

with Rosa Parks, when she refused to move to the back of the bus. That led to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, where Dr. King was nominated four days later as the president. He was only 26 years old, a very young... View Details

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