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- 01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
presence “somewhere” in Asia and “somewhere” in Europe in addition to our offices in New York. Facing the same concern as you—how do we make sure that our value proposition and brand remain constant across the regions—we took our time and... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
innovations of the last 75 years, as well as some thoughts about the coming decades.* * Total responses from MBAs and Executive Education participants who graduated in or before 1975 and those who graduated between 1976 and 1999 were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
educating great people who are concerned about the world and who understand that the way they manage a business will affect their employees, customers, and their communities. It would be hard to do that if... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me about Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss by Tyra Banks (OPM 42, 2012) and Carolyn London TarcherPerigree Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, share what they’ve learned... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Heese: The concern in most countries around the world, in many different types of whistleblower regimes, is that you will get all of these frivolous tips. Regulators and politicians are more willing to talk View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
oxygen of cash or the oxygen of investment, and that was there in Silicon Valley. I mean, we talk about it coming with Sand Hill Road in the 1960s, but it was there in a different guise from very, very early on, from the early 20th... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the heels of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. These events heightened his concern and commitment to help find solutions to the troubles of urban areas. In 1969, he joined the staff of the National... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Destruction SCHUMPETER: Ambivalent about Harvard, uneasy about America, he wondered, “Why am I always so out of sympathy with my milieu?” COURTESY HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, HUGB S276.90 In his 1942 book... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think it's okay to want to dent the universe, but I think it's best if you're an entrepreneur to think about something that's in the present that needs to be solved right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
organizations that were founded to provide something other than a profit and that also had a social objective. LEWIS: In founding the AASU, we were simply thinking of creating an organization that would be useful for networking, as a... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
neither of them understood what I needed to do to prepare for a career in investment banking, tech, consulting, etc.,” Rice observes. “So, despite having a good academic record and compelling leadership story outside the classroom, I didn’t know View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
continued to live apart, a situation both understood wasn't sustainable. Should they build their life in the United States or Egypt? Meditation is one of Enan's morning habits; another is free writing in her journal. At the time, she wrote a lot View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
New Ventures, developed and taught by Professor Frank L. Tucker and doctoral candidate Patrick R. Liles (MBA '64, DBA '70). At about the same time, then Associate Professor Howard Stevenson and then Lecturer William J. Poorvu were busy... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
goals had become so universal, negotiators actually switched sides, moving from one stakeholder to another. In Wally’s case, he began the negotiations working for the government, and—by the end—he was working for First Nations. Bulletin editor and Skydeck host Dan... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
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Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
and Miller talked, the webinar was opened to questions, and Adams says many alumni shared their concerns about racial unrest and the lack of leadership as well as their own ideas for moving forward,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
quarter-century of HBS startups? To celebrate the New Venture Competition’s 25th anniversary, we asked some past participants about the hardest lesson they’ve learned as an entrepreneur—and what it looked like to learn it. The 2022 finale... View Details