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Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg is not your typical entrepreneur. His resume is an astounding mixture of business, political and philanthropic achievement in a career that has crisscrossed so many boundaries that it defies categorization. Having built... View Details

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55597 2019 Academy of Management Annals Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? By: Clough, David R., Tommy Pan Fang, Balagopal Vissa, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

Bridges (a capstone at the end of the two years), and several entirely new Executive Education courses. In our doctoral programs, we launched PRIMO, a summer program that connects undergraduates with our faculty to learn about management... View Details

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

commemorate the HBS milestone. Beyond moving the overarching topic of women and leadership, speakers examined the role academic research plays and how that research can be used for what Ely termed "a lever for change." “Better lives come through a redesign of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Conant, he taught in a leadership course that he had designed for the company's high-potential managers. In all cases, higher-ambition leaders identified future leaders and developed them—usually through cross-functional and cross-geographic View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2023
News

Balancing Acts

stroke; a solo parent to two sons, 11 and 14 years old, she takes a very centered, practical approach to managing her time. Depelsha Thomas McGruder: I would say my top three tips for living a balanced life. Well, one thing I said very... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

starting out with nothing in life. He wants to make something of himself; and ultimately he does. But he's got to deal very early in his career with something he thinks is wrong. "The struggle is partly with his own idealism versus... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

the company started in management consulting. After graduating from Harvard College in 2005, Surette joined Parthenon for three years before matriculating at HBS in the fall of 2008. Amid a global recession, his business school experience... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

company's bevy of billion-dollar brands like Crest, Pampers, and Tide. He has also given considerable emphasis to nurturing talent, instituting leadership programs aimed at everyone from P&G's top 100 managers worldwide to the company's... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how M&As; in general affect View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

produced one of the most exciting papers that I have worked on." The idea for the paper grew from a conundrum that Bohnet faced when she became faculty director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). Although she'd built a View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had been promoted to manager, I felt... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

qualities. You were resilient. After all, not even COVID could stop you from coming to HBS. Resilience will give you greater confidence to attempt things that are difficult, and to take on challenges because they help you grow. You were flexible. Once here, you View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on them for the rest of their... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

30 Apr 2019
News

Leading Schools That Change Lives

from 6 percent to 15 percent in the last seven years and continues to grow. “We’re not yet where we want to be,” he stresses, “but we’re making meaningful progress on a challenge that’s been historically difficult for schools.” Helping Kids Beat the Odds Kennealey’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

like a tragic situation that potentially could be solved with a bit more insight into how people actually make decisions, the structure of their constraints, and what really affects their behavior." Thus launched an academic career in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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