Vision - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

For more than a century, HBS deans have led the School with vision and dedication: setting priorities, addressing the challenges of the day, and preparing for the future. Each left a legacy, from the founding of the School and the... View Details

09 Feb 2015
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Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

later as deputy secretary of state; guided the citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding and revitalizing following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Emmons Heads Christensen Center

executive education, and undergraduate business courses at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he received the Graduate Teaching Award in 2003. “The overarching vision for the center is to become the acknowledged leader in... View Details

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

15 Sep 2016
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For the Good of Society

Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is chairman and cofounder of the Bridgespan Group and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he talks about a new vision for guiding philanthropic activity that helped launch his... View Details

23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

Bloomberg spent 15 years at Salomon Brothers, where he rose through the ranks from an entry-level job counting securities by hand to general partner. When he was 39, Salomon merged with another firm and Bloomberg was fired. The energetic entrepreneur quickly launched... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Nov 2019
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Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of purpose that those within an... View Details

04 Nov 2019
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A Home for Startups

providing and supporting the collaborative work environments so that all the member companies can thrive and realize their visions and missions. The idea is that, when people with different backgrounds and different ideas come together,... View Details

Keywords: work space

06 Nov 2014
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Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement

after seeing a demand for privacy. Expansion within the building is part of the short-term plans, and Goldstein hopes to move into a standalone space in three to five years. But she can see the model working beyond campus, too. “The View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch

experience to guide the creative team and to see our vision come to life,” reported Aragon, an active participant in theater for many years. “It was also a practical application of many classroom principles: We encountered financial,... View Details

Keywords: Lee-Ann Landis; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2003
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Celebrating HBS

Noting that HBS is educating students now for a vastly more globalized and challenging world economy, Dean Clark traced the School’s mission to its beginnings, when creating an educational community dedicated to skilled and thoughtful business leadership was “an... View Details

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

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

reality, articulate the vision and set the strategic path to it, enshrine the institutional values, demand performance, empower the people, and then get out of the way and say thank you.” A leader should also be a good listener, encourage... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

A recent BloombergBusinessweek magazine profile of Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) offers an in-depth look at the Facebook COO’s philosophy of sharing and how that vision guides the company—now the world’s fifth largest by market value. The... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

out to get the audience to believe that homemaking and gardening are an art form, not drudgery." Stewart and Patrick have worked to bring their vision of style to an even wider audience, as their newest venture with strategic partner... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?

global game with global implications. Steeped in many cultures and societies, a peripatetic globetrotter at home virtually anywhere in the world, Carlos Ghosn may be just the kind of business leader with the requisite skills and vision to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2016
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A Roundabout Path

To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without the support that a... View Details

01 Mar 2022
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2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced

Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Alumni Achievement Award is given annually to a handful of alumni who represent the best traditions and highest aspirations of the School. For more than 50 years, HBS has honored... View Details

07 Oct 2024
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On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)

doing laundry. There’s an obligation to do all these things in a more sustainable way. To put it differently, this is not a company that sells appliances; but rather a business of living better by making clothes last longer and food taste better. Bartzoulianos shares... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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From Das’s Desk

amazing, profound experience.” —Stephanie Crimmins (MBA 2000) “I’ve been reflecting for some time on my core purpose and how that translates into a vision for the next phase of my professional and personal journey. As such, The Reflective... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

29 Nov 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

address the other two Ws–work and wisdom–and an evolving vision of alumni engagement. By raising your hand as a volunteer, you are strengthening the HBS brand by embodying the pay-it-forward spirit—whether to current and future students... View Details