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- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
mouths have an opportunity to do something like Harley’s doing?” A prison conviction leads to multiple employment rejections After losing his father at age 15, Blakeman fell into hard drug use. After he was incarcerated in a Georgia... View Details
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Roniesha Copeland
It’s not hard to see where Roniesha Copeland’s interest in business has come from. Her father owned a plumbing company. Her late mother was a district manager for a large Burger King franchise group based in the Detroit area. When that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
(HBS MBA '81) had been getting together every year since graduation for a long weekend with ten of her female classmates. She observed that most of her friends dropped out of the workforce at some point in their post-HBS lives. Welsh didn't have a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
School. Making the connection at HBS At HBS, Nneka enjoyed her coursework focused on emerging markets, and she took an active role in the Africa Business Club as co-leader of the Africa Business Conference. Leading the conference provided Nneka with a window into how... View Details
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Gordon Ross
start-up, The Green Guild, a consulting group that helps home-owners make their houses more energy-efficient. Specifically, Gordon worked on back-office CRM systems. “I used a lot of the skills I learned in the wealth-management world,”... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
the “soft” skills of leadership become the hard substance of excellent crisis response. “As a leader, you have to be genuinely caring about people’s needs,” Patel stresses. “If they don’t believe it, it’s... View Details
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Jake Johnston
Jake Johnston learned about leadership the hard way, through two tours of duty in Iraq, first as an Air Cavalry Platoon Leader, then as an Air Cavalry Troop Commander. "I guess that's why executive responsibility tends to be a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
“Students will attend seminars before they leave the HBS campus, faculty members will accompany the students and teach classes during the immersion experiences, and faculty and students will debrief when they’re back,” he added. “I think we will soon be looking View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
are opportunities for large corporations to attract interest outside of the traditional MBA functions and into roles focused on energy and sustainability. Those roles can be hard to find for students, but they are very interested and... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- Web
Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
influencer controversy to Boeing’s horrific crashes and endless travails, trust breaches cost companies millions in lost revenues, spur dramatic declines in investor confidence and shareholder value, upend customer reliance, and unnerve employees. Yet the notion of... View Details
- 16 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports
age under the encouragement and coaching of his uncle. When his uncle passed away, basketball served as a way to keep his memory alive and propelled a drive for Laitsas to succeed. Laitsas’ hard work in the classroom and on the court... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
sacrifice, I would not have been able to continue at Dartmouth," Hubert says. Having the freedom to shape her own destiny has always been important to Hubert. At the age of 19, she reestablished contact with her estranged father after fifteen years and has worked View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The Sixes. Girard was all in as founder and CEO, and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the... 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
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue, it is View Details
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Kristen Jones
performance and direction skills to retail, first at Sears then at DrJays.com, where she became the designated “women’s buyer.” “Most of the time,” Kristen says, “merchandisers become expert in one particular product, like handbags or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
you recommend as preparation for a career in venture capital? Doerr: The best preparation is operating experience in a well-managed, high-growth, high-tech company. Without that it's hard to support great entrepreneurs and teams. HBSB:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details
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Kimble McCraw
In her undergraduate internships, Kimble McCraw learned a few hard truths about her engineering career path. "As a whole, engineers are very smart," Kimble says, "but they don't get to make the big business decisions. It's... View Details
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
the “soft” skills of leadership become the hard substance of excellent crisis response. “As a leader, you have to be genuinely caring about people’s needs,” Patel stresses. “If they don’t believe it, it’s... View Details