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- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
that experience,” he adds. A devoted father of three, over the years Klarman has made family a top priority, taking time to coach his daughters’ soccer teams and attend his son’s piano recitals. Together with his wife, Beth, he has also... 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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
for enterprise-sized businesses, where multiple teams (of 50 to 1,000 people) are collaborating on a single program to build hardware. Companies fitting that description tend to be in aerospace and defense,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
business team needing to travel from Boston to Syracuse, New York, for example, could simply phone in the night before and book a nonstop sixty-minute flight for not much more than the cost of last-minute business-class tickets on a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Front Row: NYU Prof. and CNN Presidential Scholar Tim Naftali, Business Executive Katherine Gehl, Harvard Prof. Michael Porter, Pulitizer Prize Winner HBS Alumna Sheryl WuDunn (Panel Moderator) Back Row: HBS Club NY President Andy Cheskis, REN Core View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
way of life for many alumni. Consider that roughly half of all alumni start a business at some point in their careers. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to this issue. The takeaway from one story is that students get fired up about start-ups, as evidenced by the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business," says Leach, who anticipates a career in the mining or energy sectors. In Accra, Leach was part of a student team assigned to help a Ghanaian multimedia company,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
employees and currently manages approximately $2 billion in funds. “The most rewarding part has been building a team and watching it thrive,” says Joella Lykouretzos, who guided the firm as director of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
Review Press), Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, describes an experiment she conducted (with Jessica Porter) at the Boston Consulting Group, where teams of supercharged professionals collaborated to reclaim precious... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
political and economic influences and domestic and internecine dynamics affect the management of a state-controlled company. “Reinserting itself in the energy sector, the Russian state has installed a world-class, market-oriented management View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
why the MBA Oath is necessary and shows how it can be applied in the real world. Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky (MBA ’08) (Portfolio) After interviewing hundreds of especially productive creative people and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
math. They also had parents with the resources and knowledge to keep them academically engaged. Now the brother-and-sister team is trying to extend those same advantages to all Indian children through Rocket Learning, the edtech nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
healing modalities including becoming a Reiki Master Teacher. Investing for the Smarter Sex: Wealth Building Tips and Secrets Sophisticated Women Know (But Wall Street Won’t Tell You) By Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001) Wealth Engagement LLC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
(GMP 6, 2009) about what it takes to make real change to the diversity of your organization. READ MORE Chitra: You've helped build companies, build people, processes, and systems at scale. So what has to be... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
return, forming a team of the best people we could identify and attract, and building businesses rather than just stocks." "It is a privilege to do this work," McCance concludes. "Every day we help companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
it led us to keeping the team small and being extremely customer-centric, since we don't have investors as stakeholders. What's been the most enjoyable part of building the company, and what's been the most... View Details