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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
asked, Did you ever think Cloudflare become what it would become? And it’s like not really. You could just never imagine the journey and all the incredible people we get to work with every day who care passionately, our customers who are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“The fellows we’ve had here ask questions like, Why are we doing it this way? Is there another option? Just imagine for a moment if . They bring a new perspective to the table and an enormous amount of intellectual energy.” That MBA... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not one she could change from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior role,” she says. Still, Eberle Walker had never envisioned herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating officers and chief administrative... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
early-stage arthritis would prevent her from pursuing an artistic career. Barron put away her leotards and applied to HBS, thinking she might have a future in arts administration. "I was lucky that the School had the imagination to admit... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Feb 2016
- News
Alumni in Mexico City Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced in September 2014. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective imagination to try to envision the future—and to... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
and the organization's impact on its members' creativity. The book also includessuggestions for managers and leaders on how to boost creativity within their organizations. HBS Research Available on World Wide Web Pondering a business problem or management issue? View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
imagine Ted Levitt was one of them.” At Antioch, Levitt met Joan Levy, who was attracted to his straightforward manner. “I was working on a paper in study hall, and he suddenly appeared and asked if I wanted to go out Saturday night,” she... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
the bell curve. "If you imagine your life as a bell curve, on one end there is the five percent of issues and problems people typically don't share but that need resolution," he says. "On the other end of the curve, we have that five... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
death in 2019. “I tell my kids about their grandpa and I say, you can’t imagine how hard he worked for everything he had,” says Bishop. In creating value for his clients, Waite also created a better life for his greatest legacy, his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
says he has found "the perfect job." "I'm basically a big kid," explains the jovial executive as he demonstrates the latest push-me-pull-you gadgets that fill his office located several stories above the Fifth Avenue landmark. But it's more than the opportunity to let... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
or flood, or swarm—these terribly inaccurate, dehumanizing metaphors. If we started to think in individual stories, we might get much more imaginative about how we reshape the world. That’s something that I actually learned when Warren... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
from an information resource to a transaction platform in most content areas." The panelists agreed that while secure transactions can now be guaranteed, the Internet will need more compelling sites if it is to capture the imagination and... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these services or View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
machine’ and transforming how people tell and experience stories; like Traveling While Black, which puts viewers in the first-person perspective of a Black American on a road trip across the country. “But looking forward, while nothing can beat real, face-to-face... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
a large penitentiary. “If you boil Reset down to one idea, it is that environment is the most important thing,” Anderson observes. “Jails and prisons are dehumanizing, ugly, and dark. If you tried to imagine the worst place possible to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
enterprise one day. I might start an NGO. I might start a nonprofit. I might start a company that’s focused on increasing social welfare.” That’s not by accident—it is in part a function of the creativity and the work of the SEI founders, and it has led to the creation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
keeps me going is remembering my former students who I taught as seventh graders and imagining them at home, scared, and robbed of many of the experiences that are part of being a normal young person. It’s a way to help them and their... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna