Filter Results:
(1,108)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,961)
- People (23)
- News (1,108)
- Research (2,570)
- Events (12)
- Multimedia (32)
- Faculty Publications (1,220)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,961)
- People (23)
- News (1,108)
- Research (2,570)
- Events (12)
- Multimedia (32)
- Faculty Publications (1,220)
Sort by
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
because it was completely different.” She is grateful for the unexpected opportunity to explore a new career path she might never have considered otherwise. “I developed ideas for startup companies that use artificial intelligence in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation
Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), an America’s Cup–winning sailor and avid scuba diver, understands the importance of protecting marine ecosystems. The former owner and CEO of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Serono has provided... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
has been happening for decades in Japan, Korea, and China. I joined Lehman Brothers in 2006 and was at HBS when it crashed in 2008. That day, Professor Clayton Rose led an impromptu case study of the company I had just left. It was... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
Boris Groysberg addresses attendees of the HBS Executive Education program Women on Boards. (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Last year, Paula Davila Martinez (GMP 18, 2015) decided she wanted to have an impact beyond her corporate role as a... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability
What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
picture of the pandemic and its impact on the world. Her goal, she says, is to empower people to make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families. She is the founder of MedStars, a pioneer in the health tech field that... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
HBS experience is why Iyer says it’s important for young alumni to support the HBS Fund, even if they are not yet able to make large gifts. “It’s like when you’re in a lower- to mid-level position in a company and you wonder if you can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five distinguished alumni are role... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
could have the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. The owner asked Waldron to make a long-term... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
you get impact to scale. It can’t be a bolted-on thing somewhere over on the side,” she says. For starters, Disney’s fans and 190,000 employees wouldn’t stand for it. More and more staff, particularly the younger generation, expect their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
portfolio of programs in parallel.” In an industry where serial entrepreneurship is the norm, Cytokinetics’s approach instead requires “a strategy based on sustainability and durability” that includes forging significant partnerships with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
kind of impact she wants to have. She has been the beneficiary of numerous fellowships from HBS and HKS as well as a loan forgiveness award from HBS. “The fellowships I’ve received have given me opportunities I could not have explored... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
that companies with leading sustainability practices may be better long-term investments. Vikram Gandhi, a professor at HBS, did research and he shows that about 22 percent of baby boomers express an interest in View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
country’s oldest and largest business groups. In August 1997, the Ayala-led Manila Water Company signed a 25-year concession agreement (later extended another 15 years) to operate the water and sewer systems of Metro Manila’s east zone,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details