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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
my own doubts.” But she comes back to a question pulled from the Mary Oliver poem, “The Summer Day”—famously posed to MBA graduates as part of Tony Deifell’s (MBA 2002) Portrait Project: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
high-level positions as less desirable yet equally attainable. In Studies 5–7, when faced with the possibility of receiving a promotion at their current place of employment or obtaining a high-power position after graduating from school,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
rights (IPR) and technology transfer? Fritz Foley: Before going to graduate school, I spent a year living in Sri Lanka. I was affiliated with the Institute of Policy Studies, an economic think tank, where I conducted research on... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
implement at my current job. All in all, HBS was a tough but rewarding experience." Before matriculating at HBS, Slovakian student Monika Kubicova (MBA '96) chose to prepare by gaining work experience both in her home country and in the United States. Having made... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
at certain set levels. That changed everyone's mindset. At about that time, I started a new course on innovating health care because I believed MBAs who were interested in pricing, productivity, and efficiency could be essential as that industry evolved. Today, we... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights provisions, in particular, maximum vote provisions and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
into the classroom,” he observes. “Developing leadership skills often requires a different sort of situation. Being an old MBA myself Chu graduated in 1976, I know that half of the experience comes from the classroom, with the other half... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
as possible enter and graduate from college, expanding the list of acceptable partners might make sense. But CEO Deborah Bial believed that selective colleges provided Posse scholars with more than just superior career opportunities—they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
to give our graduation talk. And that short little 12-minute talk really changed my trajectory as well, because I saw how much it could help people. One of the people in my class was really affected by it. One of them decided to... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
decided to purchase a small business after graduating from the Harvard Business School. The case explores his decision about whether or not he should finalize his deal to purchase Great Eastern Premium Pet Foods, Inc. (GEPP). It gives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on HBS View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
payment of $1,” Baer laughs. “It was probably the first and last single-figure contract in broadcast history.” After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, Baer parlayed the experience, contacts, and notoriety he gained during his... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
that owns 53 Planet Fitness Health Clubs, has to choose: continue in private equity or shift his career to managing and growing the health clubs. An African-American graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Simmons... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
government involvement are also discussed in the case. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/rana-plaza-bangladesh-garment-tragedy-b/an/514035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-027 Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A) Isolated by the KGB in Moscow,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
gives deep meaning to a life that couldn’t be more different from the one she chose after graduating from HBS in 2014. Working at Goldman Sachs, living in the West Village, enjoying all that New York had to offer—she had a life coveted by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
relevance; and positioning those elements as a portfolio that creates a compelling and persuasive impression. Debby Farrington (MBA 1976), founder and cochairman, Starvest Management, New York, New York When I graduated from college in... View Details