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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
enjoyed the process of creating something that people valued and would pay for." Her birthplace in Africa, combined with her education — boarding school in England, college and graduate school at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins — and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
in subterfuge. No one of them knew the full plan for producing and distributing the posters, and each took a circuitous path to the central Warsaw basement where they would be printed. But as Maj and his friend Janek walked away from the building and through a nearby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
are much better leaders,” he explains. Stepping out of the CEO’s chair early gave George the opportunity to put his thoughts about leadership into a recently published book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets of Creating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL Re: Can the NFL win the long game? It is a game for only certain types of individuals, physically and mentally tough, coached up and properly conditioned in season and off season. There is no finer game in a culture that could use... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Administration (HRPBA). A SELECT FEW: Women arrived at HBS with the same goal as their male counterparts: to further their education and find meaningful work. One of those women was Sara ("Sally") Wilkinson (HRPBA 1959, MBA 1960), who is... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
Mike Norton In their early years as cash-strapped grad students, Mike Norton and Elizabeth Dunn never worried about the luxury of disposable income. When they each finally started making a salary, though, they faced a quandary. "We... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
priority to help as many people as I could while working at MGM. Creative Artists Agency was still very new, and their agents had restricted expense accounts, so I always made sure to invite my friends at CAA to screenings so they could have an View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
innovation sectors of the economy,” she says of the new position. Working as COO “synthesizes my past experiences,” she adds, citing her early career as an investor at General Atlantic; her recent work as a limited partner at Fremont... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
goal of giving his two children the spiritual education he had come to appreciate in his own formative years. When he began teaching Sunday school, however, he soon found that "teaching those kids was more important to me than what I was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
does. You asked about advice. In fact, during one talk we had early on about the transition in leadership, he leaned back in his chair and said, "You know, if I were in your shoes, I'd change everything." What I took away from that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Australia, and Wichita, Kansas. "Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop" - A case by HBS professors Robert Austin and Richard Nolan details front-line innovations implemented at Boeing by a small group of creative generalists. Sailing instructor, ranch hand, and paperboy are a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
and sold her company. Sarah, a few posters down, used the knowledge gained from CWE workshops to build a $6 million computer-networking company. “We realized early on that we had tapped a real need,” notes Silbert as she takes in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
thirty counselors (many of whom are HBS alumni) to help students with their job search, from self-assessment to résumé writing. “It’s a terrific program,” she says. “It will be interesting to see if it results in higher long-term job satisfaction.” View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
country’s oil-based economy. AlMadani, an entrepreneur who cofounded National Talents Co. to improve STEM education in Saudi Arabia, joined the effort in 2016, shortly after Saudi Vision 2030 was announced. He served as CEO of the General... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
I was eager to go into business, become as successful as I could, and then use my resources as much as I could to help social causes that were important to me, especially those relating to education and the environment." "I saw no reason... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
importance of family-owned and -operated enterprises to the international economy, HBS has long been on the forefront of research in this field. Among the early pioneers were HBS professors emeriti Renato Tagiuri and Louis B. Barnes, who... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso