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- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
management of all resources that surround that particular scale of operation." Questions raised by Salli's and other of the comments include the following: Can leaders sense successfully when an entity is functioning at its proper level or scale? Or does View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
licenses properties from blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. “It's really easy for them to be nimble and meet demand” LEGO's ambition has at times exceeded its reach. By 2004, the company's overdiversification into theme... View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
background, such ambition is not a surprise. Hoffmann’s mother is a geophysicist and oceanographer who taught at MIT. Her father passed away when Hoffmann and her identical twin sister Ashley were just two years old and when her mother... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
From Africa to HBS
passionate about Africa and I think we all feed off of each other’s energy in terms of our pursuing our ambitions for ourselves and the continent. I am really excited to see what people will do on the continent and I expect great things!... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
this lies within Tata Steel itself, as in its acquisition in Singapore. And the rest lies in the broader ambit of the Tata group through its acquisitions of Daewoo's truck assets in South Korea, Tetley Tea in the U.K. and ritzy hotel... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
am amazed by all the opportunities and doors that opened to me because of the collective community. Although my approach to being an "environmentalist" is certainly not by the book, I have been fortunate with the joint degree to find a school and a community... View Details
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
ambition in their eyes and fire in their bellies and no notions of social caste, who go the furthest and achieve the most.” As Bloomberg made the transition from public life back to the private sector, he returned to his company as CEO... View Details
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
looked for [Lowell] and found that he was President of a university called Harvard... In my family we had never heard of Harvard," Doriot remembered. 2 When the young Frenchman told Lowell of his ambitions to run a factory, Lowell advised... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and... View Details
- Web
Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog
"decouple" the U.S. economy from China's? What happens to firms caught in the cross-fire of deteriorating US-China relations? Will China's ambitions to become a "self-sufficient" superpower succeed or flounder? What about the United... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
success several times over, despite experiencing a lot of 'bumps in the road.' A last one would be Richard Branson, because his vision and ambition go beyond limits, which is impressive and inspiring." Can you finish this statement? Great... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
experience and informed perspectives to the study and practice of leadership at HBS. Through ongoing financial support and engagement, alumni are contributing to our shared ambition to make this world one in which people can improve their... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
not for his skills or experience per se, but for those interests, ambitions and activities he was most passionate about. Looking back, Kloeblen spoke passionately about a social-networking group he had led at IBM. “It was a network of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
have this ambition to raise a billion pounds for good causes, and we’re close to £200 million now,” he adds. “We’ve really improved the technology. It’s very easy to make donations, and donors can offer a tip to the Big Give to support... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
ancestors. “Everybody before me wanted to have a better life,” he says, not just for themselves, but for their children. “The bar my parents set was not necessarily about ambition or achievement, but about respect,” he adds. Howard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Economic Leaders, Simon & Schuster, 2008 Abstract Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
service, she’s clear and intentional: “I always kn ew I’d be o n corporate boards. From the outset, I had it as an ambition that I’d join a public board, so I took advantage of opportunities in corporate America to learn and grow, lead... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
learning environment that would, in his words, “reflect the definite ambition of the faculty to help the students be something more than money makers.” “Over an 87-year timeframe,” adds Crispi, “the School’s leaders have enhanced the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
endeavors are bigger than the most ambitious mixed-use real estate projects, they are funded by promoters with deep and patient pockets and a long view of value creation, and with ambition to help an entire country grow. Land was made... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
women stood. "You are Harvard Business School graduates," Sandberg gently chided. "Why do you not automatically stand up?" Too many women, she said, limit their own aspirations because they think they lack what it takes to lead, because they think... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette