Leader Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2014
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Spring Training for Startups

The Winners Most Innovative, Greatest Impact (via online voting) York Street Partners Transforming financial markets to support Sri Lanka's development Best Investment (via HBS Alumni Angels) Busbud Busbud makes it easy to search,... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact

Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) in 1999, collaborates with... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Building Community in the Bay Area

Last fall, over eighty HBS alumni and nonprofit leaders gathered in Menlo Park, California, to hear HBS senior lecturer Reynold Levy discuss the relationship between nonprofit CEOs and their boards. Levy, himself a CEO of the New York... View Details

Keywords: Reynold Levy; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
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A Message from Dean Clark

The new academic year brings a sense of heightened expectation to the HBS campus. In the last twelve months we have realized extraordinary progress in a number of areas. As we look to the future, our central mission - to educate leaders -... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

their own organizations and for the greater good, BiGS will engage with alumni and other business leaders to develop and test research-based solutions. This partnership, he says, will create a feedback loop... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans

campus. Many veterans have been inspired to continue serving their comrades in arms. One such individual is Matt Scherrer (MBA 2007), who as a Platoon leader in the 2nd Ranger Battalion was twice deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; veterans; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard. Faculty Books The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See by Max Bazerman Simon & Schuster This is a guide to... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

01 Dec 1998
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Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

face and the strategy that will guide our future success as a worldwide leader in life sciences. The quality of the HBS faculty has been tremendous and has helped our top management to develop a new Novartis... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Jun 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

50 percent of our population right now is under the age of 30. If these young people are given the opportunities to channel their energy and creativity properly, I believe Nigeria will become a world leader within the next two decades. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2006
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HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development strategies. Others helped... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

01 Dec 1996
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New Releases

Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time

experience with Motorola Mobility, Yarlagadda saw a safe and economical solution. Yarlagadda developed a solar-powered LED lantern that turns a few hours of sunlight into more than double the lighting power. “I priced my lanterns at $25... View Details

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

mission, and investing to build better leaders. No gift can have greater leverage than an investment in developing leaders. Each of you has witnessed the difference leadership makes in the organizations you care most about—how an... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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Books

Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Bazerman and his coauthor show that many disasters are preceded by clear warning signals that leaders either miss — or purposely... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

and Chicago, engaging nearly 450 alumni and other business leaders as well as a number of the School’s faculty members. The BEI’s goal in launching the panel discussions was to get people around the table talking about climate change,... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

17 Apr 2014
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Support for the Global Century

exceptional international relationships and execution capabilities,” observes the head of Greenhill & Co., Inc. “I believe strongly that the business world needs leaders who have a true global perspective and the ability to strategize and... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong

began. "In response, we are launching an important initiative that will enhance the way we prepare business leaders for the future." Clark reminded his audience of the School's long history of field-based research and its commitment to a... View Details

Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden

01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

case-based approach to teaching and learning relies heavily on exposing HBS students to a wide variety of perspectives because we’re preparing them to be leaders in organizations and in a world marked by vast human difference and... View Details