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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
which she'd done research. George Kozmetsky [MBA 6/1947, DCS 1957], cofounder of Teledyne, was another advocate. "He believed that women needed mentors to help get them onto the playing field," remarks Lack, who served on a board with... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he thinks it’s his ticket out of small-town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish, he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
provides a mentoring network to let students explore a variety of careers. It also funds leadership camps for students and provides financial education to students and young adults in the community. “After starting out with only my... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
“intimidated by all those articulate British students and all those history majors who were used to the give-and-take of case-method teaching.” Christensen, who would become a close mentor and friend, sent him an encouraging note, sought... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
we're getting ready to take off. And at that point, my boss, Major Stephen Reich, the guy who'd been mentoring me the whole time, gets on board and asks me about my plan. And he said, OK, I like it, everything except the parts that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
launched a training program for inner-city residents, featuring one-on-one mentoring for new hires, it proved so successful that the company began to mentor all new hires. "Traditional solutions to America's... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
rock scene, and last summer's launch of Blaze, a monthly that covers hip hop and caters to 12-to 24-year-olds, Vibe/Spin Ventures now reaches 1.5 million readers. Martha as Mentor As important as circulation figures are, Clinkscales... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
capitalized, loss-making technology company is what it took for me to learn that! —Steve Papa (MBA 1999) founder of Endeca; founder and current CEO at Parallel Wireless; longtime NVC judge and mentor Tenacity Amid Uncertainty I applied to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
1991) @SteverRobbins: Too much online learning could kill revenue model for colleges, reducing long-term supply of knowledge creators. In short term, however, online learning is a potential huge boost to educated populace, IF learners work hard to master material.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
was a concern by people in business when they first got engaged in social enterprises—when they participated on boards, for instance, or gave money, or mentored people running these organizations. They looked at the capacity within these... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
briefly returned to Goldman Sachs after graduation before choosing a new career path as a firefighter in San Diego. He also runs an online mentoring program for high school students, PrepWell Academy, which focuses on developing... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
climate tech investor have come from people with very different backgrounds than a typical HBS student. As a climate tech entrepreneur, I find that diverse teams make better, more insightful decisions. In addition, all of us who are View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend, and corporate apprenticeships leading to full-time employment. Courtesy Year Up As a young Wall Street banker in the 1980s, Gerald Chertavian volunteered as a Big Brother, View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
course," says Light, "but no one at HBS had thought about it before. We need student input to know how to help." HBS also offers services that attend to the needs of students' families. One important resource is a mentoring network, made... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions to this institutional indifference, including Sahlman’s View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)