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01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

“dedication to a cause greater than oneself,” and success and happiness will flow from it. The book influenced me to change the path I was on, and that has made all the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2025
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split on the worthiness of the Ukrainian cause, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was unlikely to let the bill come to a vote without clear support from his caucus. “We couldn’t make things move,” says Haring.... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

HBS administration and faculty about the current, fast-breaking revolution in the School's own deployment of information technology. Addressing the conference's first plenary session, on March 20, HBS senior... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

presented in mid-May 1995 to 650 students and some 70 faculty members and administrators by students coached in case-method teaching. "Using the tools we've learned at HBS, it... View Details

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

participants were given a situation involving a global context (strategizing about the future of a foreign wire service and advertising at an international sports competition). When asked to brainstorm in a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

new gifts. Ongoing alumni support is integral to the School’s ability to invest in those areas that enable HBS to deliver on its mission. Restricted and unrestricted current use gifts are the fuel that... View Details

13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

engineers, architects, and teachers to connect with people who need their services but live thousands of miles away, and more. “Of course, right now during COVID, it’s helping... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

any experience,“ Marcelo said. “Upromise was sort of my general management tour of duty and TheLadders allowed me to further my leadership training.“ After TheLadders and with View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

in Iraq. Local Motors currently has three working microfactories, with plans to build a network of 50. But the pressures of military service weighed on him. He loved the Marines, but he missed his wife and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support the war effort.... [T]he Military Planning Division was a key component, benefiting from what proved to be a novel cooperation among science, industry, and the military." Christopher G. Hartman,... View Details

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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

twice—ask what you can do better and focus on continuous improvement. Finally, at the November HBS Women’s Leadership Summit , alumni heard a diverse group of women directors reflect on their board service... View Details

22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women

instinctively understood—and has taken great advantage of—the collective network potential in terms of shared experiences, peer counseling, coaching, relationship cultivation, and ongoing support systems.”... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

action, which are precisely the talents of business leaders." In addition, he adds, the benefits to businesses that get involved in their own cities are high: healthy communities boost competitive advantage, community service makes better... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

startup to Dropbox, Carpenter is the protagonist of another case coauthored by Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (MBA 1996). “Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial” details his efforts to build and grow an... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

entrants competing for a total of $17,500 in awards. The winning team, led by Lawrence Brewster (MBA '81), submitted a plan for an e-business in the health-care industry. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA '98) and Daphne Dufresne (MBA '99) were... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

Wilkins (MBA '70), and Terry L. Jones (MBA '74) and awards for civic and community service to Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA '72) View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,... View Details