Alumni Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Education Pioneers

work like setting up Newark Public Schools’ universal student enrollment system, developing new teacher talent management strategies for KIPP New Orleans, researching youth engagement best practices for the Chicago mayor’s office, and so... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Wasserman realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

Career Coach

Sarah Sikowitz

those seeking internships or full-time roles at startups. Sarah also helps students and alumni develop personal brand narratives, build effective resumes and navigate the networked job search. Work Experience: Publicis, Omnicom, Yahoo!,... View Details

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award for their July-August 2009... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

financed them—declared such brick-and-mortar businesses were dinosaurs on their way to extinction. The success of Bluemercury proved the critics wrong. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders” Despite... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

18 Dec 2019
News

U.S. Competitiveness Report: Business Leaders Pessimistic, Political Gridlock Biggest Obstacle to Strengthening America’s Competitiveness

08 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

Career Coach

Alan Braly

and deploy analytics tools based on real world data sources. He began his career in implantable medical device research and development at Medtronic. Work Experience: Foundation Medicine (Senior Director); Blavatnik Fellow / Start-up... View Details

17 Jul 2024
News

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

the research problem, at this point. I’m the subject and I’m the researcher. I’m like a perpetual-motion machine of happiness research.” In this conversation with the HBS Alumni Bulletin, Brooks talks about... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

29 Mar 2019
Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE

This blog was originally published on the SEI Impact Insights blog. This post is part of the Social Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which highlights some of the faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have been a part... View Details

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

of the Harvard Business School Europe Research Center based in Paris. Through his work, Vincent has built an extensive and deep network with the European corporate world in many industrial sectors. He is also in close contact with the... View Details

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

planned lecture and an instructor-dominated question-and-answer period for the ambiguity of a hard-to-plan, free-flowing discussion driven by student ideas, which may well follow unusual paths and come to unexpected end points." Educating Educators Although his... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

26 Mar 2019
Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE

the momentum and winnings from the Social Enterprise Track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2013. The lean start-up testing and on-the-ground research was made possible by an SEI travel grant. SEI continues to be a champion of WAVE,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship

07 Aug 2010
News

Notes on Global Trip

Video

Entrepreneurship - the HBS Way

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship in the HBS Community There are a multitude of entrepreneurship programs and resources available to students and alumni in the HBS and Harvard Ecosystem. While attending HBS, students have access to countless offerings to... View Details

20 Dec 2018
Blog Post

A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture

with the Career and Professional Development office to offer an alumni career panel for MBAs. Five alumni came to campus to share their insights about opportunities in the field. Thirty-five students turned... View Details

28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Muccio: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart," HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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