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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
accepted to HBS. I also received a fellowship and internship offer from a leading finance firm and had plans to return to Wall Street. Shortly after arriving on campus, however, I realized that I wanted to take the opportunity to explore... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
comprehensive, regional planning and as only one element in a complex mix of interrelated socioeconomic factors. "A lot of businesses that are concerned about the problem have concluded that the best way they can help is by supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
Analytical Thinking. Students also get one-on-one advice from senior faculty who help them customize a plan of study. Customization is a cornerstone of the new program, which permits students to tailor their course work to an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
Two years into The Campaign for Harvard Business School, there is notable success to report. Giving to the School is at an all-time high — annual and reunion gifts and pledges topped $94 million in fiscal 2004, as more than 12,000 alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
centrally planned for you,” she says. “I took a test when I was 10 that showed I was good in science, so I was put into a science high school. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to be in science.” When it was time for college, Bandourian... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
gaining access to venture capital, the benefits of acquiring and transforming existing businesses, the challenges of leading diverse organizations, and the successful management of community-based ventures. Several alumni participated on... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
encouraged and supported a number of important breakthrough studies and treatments. But Hood won’t be satisfied until “the day we find a cure and close our doors forever.” Ironically, she worries that successes along the way could dull... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
pushed into new territory, the School already has a strong track record of fostering student entrepreneurship, a story told by associate editor Julia Hanna in her look back at past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest, now in its... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
organization?" Garvin answers these questions with practical guidelines and a wealth of real-life examples. He uses detailed case studies to illustrate successful learning processes at organizations such as Xerox, L.L. Bean, the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And one of them is, I wonder why... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised the investment world by... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly plan of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether different? And what makes some mergers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
then finally seeing the outcomes. “Measuring the impact of our actions on the environment, employees, and customers is becoming increasingly important,” Serafeim says. ”With impact-weighted accounts, we have the opportunity to redefine what is a profitable and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing process-ensure considerable cost... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
to support their career growth during and after the fellowship. The agency also has launched a leadership development program, Managing for Success, which helps nonprofits support their rising managers through assessments, workshops, and mentoring. View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken