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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
participation of 28 sponsoring companies and 120 other firms. Schaeffer and Terry's organizational and team-building skills were judged to be emblematic of the leadership and service that the Dean's Award seeks to honor. Other Dean's... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
transition more easily and smoothly into retirement. Cultivating those skills can demystify, streamline, and enrich the retirement experience. The stories of the 14 stars—gathered from multiple interviews over the course of months and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
creating an environment for innovation: first, employees have to be willing to innovate; and second, they have to be able to innovate. That first ingredient, willingness, came about as a result of creating a community with a common sense... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
As cochairman of the board of Loews Corporation, Andrew Tisch (MBA 1977) has played a leadership role in one of the largest diversified companies in the United States. He is also using his skills to help improve inner-city education,... View Details
- 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
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
especially proud of the numbers inside the fairgrounds. About 71,000 guests attended the 17-day festival last year. "We are wholeheartedly involved, the community feels that, and the enthusiasm is contagious," he says. Appling's path to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
company is that when we hire people, we always hire for attitude. We don’t hire for skills. We hire for attitude because we feel skills can be taught and trained. But if you have the wrong attitude, no matter how View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
York. Prior to cofounding IGNIA, Rodríguez held executive positions in several large corporations, combining his analytical skills with a no-nonsense approach to problem-solving. All the while, he spent his free time working to expand... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2014
- News
Increasing Access to Education
experience helped me hone my critical thinking and communication skills and gave me a very valuable personal and professional network.” Before joining Jawbone, Mount held senior leadership positions at... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
help get us—whether as a school district, county, state, country—where we need to be.” At Treasury, Cognetti staffed meetings between high-level officials and European foreign ministers. Coming into HBS, she wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. But the case method honed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Light applied to the MBA Program... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
mechanics and at which SEEQC’s chips become fully operational. Of particular interest to Levy, however, is the jumble of room-temperature hardware and wiring that sits next to the refrigerators and communicates with the quantum chips... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
I'm thinking about whether it is virtual teaching, remote working, hybrid classrooms, welcoming students back to campus, on every one of those occasions, our community has responded magnificently. It is this View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
big culture shift in his move to TNC, he says one of his favorite parts of his job is his colleagues. "Their principal engagement is fulfillment," he said. "It certainly requires a different skill set as a leader. While it may be more... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
affairs. Working with area companies and institutions, The Partnership facilitates interactions among current and emerging leaders and provides opportunities for individuals to share their knowledge and skills to bring about change in the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
team and, you know, how to wash dishes, all skills I carry with me today. At spring reunions, we asked the alumni to share stories of their worst experiences in the working world. And this episode includes all sorts of life-altering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
find that’s the way that I can serve my community right now. So I do it. Flint: What do you think musicians can learn from these virtual experiences that might be helpful on the other side? Gandhi: I definitely don’t think that virtual... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
she says, and knows education is one of the primary ways to improve it. “I was very much drawn to working in education. It’s been incredibly gratifying to be able to bring the leadership and management skills I learned at HBS to help grow... View Details