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- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
expand their work.” ***** Mary Jo Veverka and Climate Story author, Jacqueline Adams, were HBS section mates. They have been friends ever since they sat together in Aldrich 8 more than four decades ago. Adams continues to admire MJ’s... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning exercise. I View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical financial data went... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
returned to Kenya for his summer MBA internship and then again after graduating to continue his career. We sat down with Karibu to discuss his experience with the changing landscape in Africa, the growing economy, and the impact that the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling abroad, and his three kids were... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
had sat hidden in a repository called Hanslope Park, 10 miles south of Northampton. (Known colloquially as spook central, it’s the real-life version of the fictionalized intelligence branch in James Bond films, where the government keeps... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
pressure, other circumstances, and Grady's level of creativity. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808075 D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise Harvard Business School Case 808-006 In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
pencil-and-paper maze to each student, in which the goal was to help a trapped cartoon mouse find its way out. In some mazes, a picture of a piece of cheese sat outside the exit, next to a hole in the wall where the mouse could escape.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Karsh traveled to Harvard Business School to photograph prominent faculty members. Karsh did extensive research on each professor before he met and photographed them and even sat in the classroom to get a better feel for his subjects. He... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
minorities are able to get on and stay on the path to senior leadership, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques connected with friends who shared their passion for investing. Their group of six, including co-founder and current Harlem Capital Venture Partner, Brandon Bryant, View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
testified against deregulation in my first appearance in the Congress. I explained that it would put us out of business. And when I sat down with the staff, they said, "Frank, we think that you're right. We think that there will be a loss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the culture that we had begun to develop.” After many discussions and... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
mentor, but he was that, for sure, because he set the example for me in all ways humane, wise and generous. He also played an important role in introducing my consulting firm to corporations on whose boards he sat which, while it was... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
professor Robert Simons has been adding to that body of knowledge and practice through an extensive research agenda that has resulted in numerous books, articles, and case studies. Working Knowledge editor Jim Aisner sat down recently... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
One spring day in 1983, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) sat down in his Watergate Tower office at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, looked out at the Kennedy Center, and worked out a strategic plan for his life. He had landed a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
should go about their business and not give in to the fear that terrorism attempts to engender in us. Are imprecise government alerts regarding potential terrorist attacks constructive? Government has an exquisite problem here. I've sat... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
build a business he loves. After graduating from Boston University, Linzmeyer joined General Electric in their financial management program which gave him the opportunity to develop his financial skills and determine where he wanted to take his career next. As he... View Details