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- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and inaccessible to engineers' "creativity". Thomas Baudin, MBA 1997, CEO & Founder Region: Europe Globalcare The firm’s mission is to advance international healthcare mobility. It is building a View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
the HBS Fund. “The School has been incredibly thoughtful and progressive, and I trust its leaders to continue on the right path,” he says. While it took him some time to create his estate plan, including HBS in his philanthropy is not new... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
gave her some advice: Leave the comfort of marketing and join sales; learn the business from the inside out. The suggestion made little sense to Freyre, who considered herself a marketer and a brand strategist at her core. But she trusted... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2023
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End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
in the United States so badly. And my parents said, ‘Okay, but it has to be New England.’ They trusted the region because of its universities and proximity to Europe; it was almost as if I was in London.” Brass tacks: “The pragmatic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
a senior portfolio manager for the firm, a position she had held since 1984. Fedak is also a member of the Small-Cap, International, and Global Equity Investment Policy Groups. From 1972 to 1983 she was a portfolio manager and research analyst at Morgan Guaranty View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
buying for the store—with an emphasis on art, design, cookbooks, children’s books, and beach reads—but the idiosyncratic staff picks, each with a sign explaining why the staffer recommended the book, are also popular with customers, who have come to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
then-prevailing HBS model—since amended—where speaking in class was essential to earning high grades, Frances was not insisting we stick to standard operating procedure. She was trusting each of us to know what was best for us and to act... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
Shady dealings at the negotiating table may work in the short term, but in the end, you’ll undermine trust and tarnish your reputation, warns HBS professor Michael A. Wheeler in the March issue of Negotiation, a newsletter from HBS... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
later launched Dealogic, a financial services software firm. Their success in business enabled Peter to set up the Ogden Trust in 1998, a nonprofit that initially provided funding for talented students to pursue higher education and that... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
commitment to the School by establishing a charitable remainder trust. The trust will support HBS, as well as his undergraduate college and high school. “Each school played a role in preparing me for the next step in life,” explains... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
and lesbians. When you work on a team, sharing a bit of your personal life can make a huge difference in building trust and authenticity. When you work on a team, sharing a bit of your personal life can make a huge difference in building... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) unit. Valley's research focuses on how negotiations can be significantly affected by how well the parties know and trust one another and by the medium they use to communicate — in person, by... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Muneer Satter, MBA 1987
Goldman Sachs. I want to do everything I can to help our country be globally competitive so we can grow and create opportunities for all our citizens. HBS is a voice that is trusted and respected.” Longtime HBS supporter Muneer Satter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
the trust of your investors is a challenge, she acknowledges, earning it back after a breach is nearly impossible. Reality check. One of the biggest blunders Brown has made is not firing toxic people soon enough, and hiring someone even... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
lands with important conservation attributes, usually in partnership with regional and national land trusts and conservation organizations. Through the conservation transactions we structure, the public gets the assurance that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal Neeley Build View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
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Joyner to Receive Harvard’s DuBois Medal
partner of Avid Partners, a San Francisco firm that provides strategic consulting services for private equity and venture funds. Also a former member of the Obama administration’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, she serves as a trustee of the Getty View Details