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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business Week named Jackson one of the top... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
singing it.’” In an interview at her office in midtown Manhattan, Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and an accomplished gospel singer, recounts this story and others with the kind of informal ease you might expect from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
master," he says admiringly. After college, Keen served as a management trainee for Bath Iron Works, the Maine shipbuilding firm. Guided by the Native American philosophy that "any decision you make should... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
transformation of society, with extraordinary opportunities for wealth creation.” Richard Vietor, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS, credits Stobaugh with “taking me under his wing on energy matters when... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
(Big Think) (Big Think) Over at Big Think—described as “a YouTube for ideas,” and cofounded by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003)—JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson (MBA 1973) offers advice on how to cope with betrayal. Betrayal,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Dance Dance Revelation
photo by Chris Taggart About 30 executives are gathered in a boardroom when a trio of dancers enters, one of them gracefully leaping onto the conference table and assuming fifth position. This star ballerina and her colleagues from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
automobiles, and airlines," says Curator Laura Linard, director of historical collections at Baker Library. The period also corresponds to the rise of graduate business schools, including HBS (founded in 1908), which were established to train View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the world. That doesn't even make sense," Leschly says with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
in keeping with her overall philosophy on career management, which emphasizes “taking charge of your career and managing it the way you’d manage a business.” Too often, she notes, “people abdicate control of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
our culture or managing key customers and investor relationships,” Gregg says. “I jokingly told someone I’m the spiritual center of the company. You need to embrace that aspect of the job to get people excited about being here.” Moment in... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
prepares highly qualified professionals for high-level roles in the social sector. “We’re focused on developing leaders at all levels for the world’s greatest challenges,” she says of ProInspire, which was recently named one of “7 Nonprofits to Watch in 2015” View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
exploitative capitalists, the student was amazed by Yang's talk. “When I said it didn't have to be that way, it was a revelation to her,” said Yang. As part of the School's Leadership and Values Initiative, Yang and three other honorees... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
fundamental means by which people interact in any organization.” Her research—published in her award-winning 2017 book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations (Princeton University... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
"and it wasn't clear that I would survive. From that point on, I always talked about being a doctor. I remember being mesmerized by the technology around me and by the kind and helpful nurses and doctors at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the conference, which is jointly... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
Dean Nitin Nohria has announced that the Bertarelli Foundation of Switzerland, cochaired by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), has established the Bertarelli Foundation Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a generous gift to... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
reach across the United States. For the past 10 years, the club has hosted a popular gala in New York, attended by Latino alumni, students, and newly admitted students. But the event was attracting only a portion of the School’s Latino... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of... View Details