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- 25 Aug 2014
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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 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
Strugatz also have made sustainability a core principle. They realized, for example, that they were shipping 15,000 sample swatches each month, only to have them discarded once customers picked colors. So instead, Magagnini assembled... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
leaders has been at the core of HBS since its founding in 1908. It’s in the DNA of the School, says Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development and author of a highly acclaimed history of American business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (HBS 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality preschools that focused on View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
’93), head of the South Florida initiative, notes that the alumni base is smaller and more scattered in that region than in Boston or San Francisco, for instance, but is pleased with the results from their first six–month project cycle. “The View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
online digital world, consumers are searching for ways to reclaim these values in many of the industries I’ve studied. What advice would you offer to an endangered industry? If you foresee your core technology is reaching the end of its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Shaking Up the System
noted Sternberg. “The difference-makers here are the adults.” As a teacher, Sternberg felt that children’s education suffered from a dearth of strong school leadership, so he decided to enroll at HBS. “The core tenets of leadership that... View Details
- 19 Nov 2020
- News
How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain
complicated,’ he says. For instance, Mr. Gulati has taught him that company leaders can’t innovate their way out of a proverbial death spiral. ‘His lesson was that if you’re in trouble and you over-innovate, you accelerate the death spiral,’ he says. ‘It’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in any kind of corruption,” Abi... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
core beliefs, for example, is that on our team, we care about each other. When things don’t go well, you can reflect on those values and find the answers that will help get you through some tough moments—whether they happen on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
method courses, both immersive and extended, are offered during the second year of the program. HBS is extending its reach to new audiences through HBX, a unique online learning platform. CORe offers a primer on the fundamentals of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
for to compete in such an environment, HBS professor John P. Kotter argues that substance, not style, is the key to effectiveness. In John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do, a collection of his most acclaimed Harvard Business Review articles from 1979 to 1997, Kotter... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
than 25,000 companies over a period of 40-plus years to identify the core rules for sustained superior performance. They found three: better before cheaper (companies sustaining their performance do so by non-price benefits such as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
research and commercialization of biotechnology and biomedicine, the life sciences’ core activities? And what steps must be taken to maintain preeminence? In a keynote presentation at a September “Massachusetts Life Sciences Summit,” HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must emanate from—and reflect—the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
research into the causes of the crisis. “Jay came at the recession like the expert he was,” says Angela Crispi (MBA 1990), Executive Dean for Administration during Light’s tenure. “He moved quickly to manage expenses, while continuing to invest in the people and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
data, and pay for any loss of business you’ve had,” says Itskovich. Half of the startup’s 180 employees work in areas like security research and data science, while the rest handle traditional insurance activities such as underwriting and claims management. At-Bay... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
of organizations were very productively linked and in which significant value was being created, both for the collaborating nonprofits and for the businesses." A 1997 ISE research forum at the School spurred Austin to delve more deeply into this phenomenon. Identifying... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
company called Firefly, and we pioneered personalization on the internet. We were responsible for inventing something called collaborative filtering. If you go to Amazon and it recommends books, or if you go to Netflix and it recommends movies, that's all our View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
addressing many of the complex issues related to business and the economy. One of Dean Nohria’s core aspirations is for the School to step up and be more engaged in policy and influencing behavior in the business community. This project... View Details