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Phillip Michael Strazzulla
triggered a desire to become an entrepreneur. He did sales at a startup marketing company and thought, “I can do this. This is really fun.” He graduated with the belief that building something would be far more fulfilling than... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
successes have been nothing short of extraordinary. Goodwin encouraged Marriott to build a hotel in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. The hotel—which Goodwin calls both an astute business decision and View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
drought-proof resource has become increasingly appealing. “Carlsbad is a very important test case,” he says. “There are lots of eyes on it—everywhere from Texas to Florida.” And it’s not only the tech that interests other cities, it’s the way Poseidon View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
creating a vision, and leveraging assets like relationships and partnerships. At the heart of this book are the eight things you must be intentional about every day—authenticity, building trust, creating other leaders, clarity, diversity,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
friends and family in backyards all over the world. “We’re growing a global company, neighbor by neighbor,” says Andrus. How to: Build a big brand while staying close to your customers Look beyond the obvious metrics. “Competitors focused... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Kids and adults alike had told me I just “wasn’t athletic,” and that was OK—I was smart and talented in other ways. So when the time came for that mandatory mile run I had to get creative. We didn’t have a gym at my small parochial... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
ex-consultants to seasoned real estate professionals. As far as my day to day goes, I have been fortunate to work with very smart people and take on new learnings. I have worked on projects ranging from View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
achieved more effectively through creative combinations of available technologies and smart management than through radical technological innovations. He has also published on topics such as strategic management, international trade, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
private sectors. We know that if you can build what the authors of that chapter call an innovative ecosystem, it appears to really accelerate innovation in very productive ways. What's striking about energy innovation to date is that a... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
Middle East. "U2's appeal has always been about our common humanity and the yearning we all experience to follow a higher path. People are looking for the light, and U2's music has spoken to that search since the band started recording more than two decades ago." For... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a... View Details
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Terrance McGuire
McGuire said. “It was about commitment and leadership and recruiting the best talent and being smart about it. It was a very exciting environment and I got exposed to a lot of different entrepreneurial types, some of whom were... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
technologies that are cost-competitive and can get us 90 percent of the way to emissions targets. When alumni asked for examples of climate-smart businesses to start today for financial returns in the next three to five years, speakers Horn, Henderson, and Hwang... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Euvin Naidoo I just received hardcover copies of two special books I have been looking forward to unpacking over the summer: Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time, by Rosabeth... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
defend my answer (often against an incredibly smart peer who thought differently than me) gave me a lot of anxiety – so initially I felt I’d rather just not speak up at all. I often times felt like I could see all sides of an argument,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
opportunities while building a sizable and informed network of people dedicated to water, water health, water risk, water education or water-related challenges. The more that I learn about water, the more I realize I have so much more to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Navigating Recruiting with Diverse Abilities: Advice from Alumni
but if I say that out loud maybe they won't want me because they'll just assume that I'm not smart enough or not capable enough,” shares Mitchell. However, Francis and Mitchell have found over time that disclosing their diverse abilities... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
post-graduation. Michael Rodriguez: Extending the search past graduation For Michael Rodriguez (MBA 2019), his post-graduation job offer came as an extension of the search he had begun before classes ended and continued through graduation. Instead of View Details
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