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- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
concerned that our executive programs — which comprise two-thirds international participants — could see declines in enrollment. Whatever the intention of the order, its implementation has led to disruption and fear, and it undercuts the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and board directors I worked with at Outward Bound,” he explained. However, during a “fascinating, intellectually engaging, intense, and ultimately life-changing” two years at HBS, Pearson unexpectedly “fell in love” with the economics of deregulation, a passion that... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
impact, Huebner and friends created Minds Matter in 1991. In the first year, the friends tutored a half-dozen students and subsequently sent two to preparatory schools on fully paid scholarships. Convinced of what was possible, Huebner View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
then his HBS colleague, was already working on a concept he called “predictable surprises,” the collaboration that led to their widely read book by the same title was launched. A distinguished expert on managerial decision-making,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
Andresen Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who led the discussion. In the old model, he said, economies of scale regulated success and performers had to be big to spread out high fixed costs. Now, as a result of the way we... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
competitiveness of individual firms. Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in 2001. It is led by Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at HBS and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
force in our world, whether we like it or not. So, what are we going to do with that driving force? I also wanted my career to be grounded in the true rigor of business, and the marriage of business rigor with positive impact in the world. These guiding lights View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
cooperatively owned grocery store. In my work, I primarily organized our outreach efforts with several foundations and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and strategized ways for us to successfully secure both grant funding and low-interest loans.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Profile
Jeff Bussgang
and financial services firm that is helping more than 12 million families save over $20 billion for college. Since January 2003, he has been a partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that Jeff helped start. While at Flybridge, Jeff... View Details
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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
at Time Inc. While undertaking a preliminary assessment of Time’s global CSR activities, Levy-Odom realized that she wanted to have a clearer sense of CSR best practices and also to make connections with others working in the field. This View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
pressure? “We try to emphasize that this is not easy,” says Beshears, who led the course with Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk. “A big part of achieving some degree of success is having the flexibility to change your mind. That’s important... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
since 2009. Those efforts, however, have been slowed by strong opposition from EMC, one of the state’s largest tech companies. That led Johnson to consider an innovative approach to changing noncompetes. With advice from a team of labor... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners. Later, with the support of Sealed Air and his wife, Joan, a former English professor, he pledged to fund a college education for students in a sixth-grade class in Paterson, New Jersey. "Dermot Dunphy... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases," says Schrader, who led Vaxess to another win at HBS's 2013 New Venture Competition this spring. Compare that number to the 1.8 million annual global deaths from HIV and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
business as he rescued Big Blue, then a stumbling mainframe-computer giant, and rebuilt it into a powerful but nimble information-technology company. Judith R. Haberkorn (AMP 111, 1992) The retired president for consumer sales and services at Verizon Communications,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
Frock in an ASMS classroom; "Students learn by doing." Courtesy Kim Frock Students at the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, don’t diagram what a circuit board looks like on a piece of paper; they wire one themselves. View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who could serve as role models and mentors. So when she was first assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
business rigor with positive impact in the world. These guiding lights led me to Harvard Business School. I kept hearing that the mission of HBS was to create leaders that make a positive difference in the world. I was eager to work with... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
chapters provide in-depth analyses of representative companies and the remarkable people who led them. These firms include Google, eBay, Amazon.com, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Boeing, General Motors, and Ford—all of which began as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
had as an undergrad, going through what you call the rite of passage, end up becoming a business that you built at HBS? How did that insight lead into you founding BoldVoice? Anada Lakra: There were two kinds of paths which led me to it.... View Details