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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
groups, I may never convince them that we’re doing good things in Iraq, but the fact that we’re interested enough to talk and listen to them is really important. How does your business background translate to the world of diplomacy? Although you appear to be the CEO of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
Klein. At each stop, she gained new knowledge and experience while advancing her own reputation as a change agent capable of leading a company to growth through new product design. Ross’ entrepreneurial skills at a small fashion-eyewear... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
families facing foreclosure. She advocated a change to the bankruptcy laws to allow a neutral arbiter like a bankruptcy judge to rewrite the terms of a loan, adjusting both the amount owed and the interest rate. She also advocated more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a culture of innovation. At the same... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
powerful sense of presence you share with another person when you’re in a VR space together, you realize how it completely changes how you think about technology as a tool to bring people together. I’m excited by the social games,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
act even though he had plenty of levers he could have pulled that didn’t have to do with changing interest rates. He could have raised margin requirements, for example. But instead, he came up with the ridiculously lame idea that bubbles... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
fortunately, he stated that I was different. I asked Grove what it would take to change his mind, and his cryptic response was, “Try me.” This was a typical Grove two-minute meeting: enigmatic yet to the point. In an always busy day,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
payers will ask, ‘What are the economics of managing someone with lupus, MS, or diabetes for thirty years, versus curing them?’ That’s the point when you’ll see a change in approach, especially as advances in science and research suggest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
take me from '87 to essentially 1990. That process and how that plays out. Warwick: One of the assumptions I made was I wanted to change management and increase profitability and that the family would somehow stay in, which was an... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
us and how we talk to each other and how we work and what our openness and willingness to change is. Unfortunately we don't have much of a choice. If we're going to grow this organization is going to evolve. And that's either going to... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
supports you. Charanya Kannan (MBA 2017): I would say work on self-awareness. HBS was a great place for me to be vulnerable and learn from everyone around me in terms of who I really am. So just the change of context. My pre-HBS life and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
our classmates took off her shoes and—WHOA—eyes burning, nose on fire, it was the worst stench you could imagine! When we asked her why she didn’t do anything, she said the current options stunk (pun intended); they either didn’t work, View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
about this plane as an Airbus A380. And the story inside my head is not working. I'm losing track of what's working and what isn't. I'm becoming overwhelmed by this information. So what he decides, is he decides in a split second to View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
social enterprise heading over the next decade? I am an optimist, and I believe we will see refreshing changes in that time frame. The new cadre of donors, the new family foundations, the folks who are involved in venture philanthropy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal: Cumming’s children had graduated... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
changing today. AE: So Bob said he looked at it first and he said he didn’t think that he could do anything with it, but the more Bob talked to me and worked with me, Bob told me, he’s saying, I’m going to try to see what I can do to help... View Details