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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
skeptical Nigerian consumers to eat what its farmers grow. A couple of summers ago, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) saw this dilemma firsthand when she stopped by a small restaurant outside Lagos in southwest Nigeria, not far from the home she View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
all his fault. Well, after several complaints from the customers, other staff members, I began to share with my father that I thought this manager was not doing his job. And one Friday afternoon I walked into my father's office with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
The starting five: This year's Alumni Achievement Award winners included (clockwise, from lower left) Judy Haberkorn, Lou Gerstner, Joe O'Donnell, Rahul Bajaj, and Nancy Barry. The group visited HBS in September and took part in a case discussion with members of the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and alumni shared their insights on the future of the energy and clean-tech sectors. “It was a chance for current students to make connections with alumni working in these industries, and find inspiration,” says Jennifer Nash, director of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio) Conard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
into this business from the time I was thirteen, when I was given a couple of shares of stock," says the quietly intense Kingdon. "Even though the market nose-dived soon thereafter, I was taken with the idea that you could buy something... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
Overseer. “It's been great fun,” she notes. “Particularly now with the Allston planning and the new president, the board seems to be engaged in real strategic thought about where the University is going.” All her roles, she reflects, give her opportunities to View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
had trouble with social things. You know, in later years, all that got corrected by taking an anticonvulsive drug, which I still take. But it was a factor, definitely, in my life, in that period. JH: Despite that setback, Wilson was elected president of his high school... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. The desire to produce thought leadership at a fast pace, the Dean said, is the catalyst for the new... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Kordestani recalls. Once they felt confident that McKenna was ready to accept the role, Mercy Corps leadership shared the detailed findings of the investigation with her. (As a group, they revealed organizational mishandling and a greater... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
audience for your HBS Class Day speech, you have an extremely popular TED Talk, you're an in-demand speaker generally. In the book, you recount your first speech, though, as a fifth grader in Miss Davis's class. Can you talk a little bit... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
objectives. Identifying how to best achieve our mutual objectives can be challenging, but also provides a great learning and growth opportunity.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in this position? “In some way or other, every class... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
1.4 taxis for every 1,000 people in Jakarta compared with 10.2 in Bangkok, and most of those were concentrated in the downtown area where the office jobs and wealthier residents congregate, despite the fact that taxis were often seen as a lower- View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
cooking and washing for 14 people," he recalls. "She had tremendous energy. There was no money, but lots of love and happiness." As a boy, Harf shared a room with a great uncle, born in 1886, who instilled in him an avid interest in... View Details