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Conference March 9, 2025 Social Impact Club Future of Work Club Entertainment & Media Conference March 29, 2025 Entertainment & Media Club Business of Sports Club Entrepreneurship Club Conference March 30, 2025 Entrepreneurship Club National Security Conference April... View Details

13 May 2013
News

Giving Together

SEAL and currently a managing director at Ziff Brothers Investments, led an effort that raised $335,000 toward the fund that carries the name he believes says it all, the MBA Class of 2001 National Defense Fellowship Fund. View Details

LeRoy A. Petersen

In his 22 years with Otis, Petersen helped the elevator manufacturer transition from war to peacetime production and become increasingly profitable in the process. Though the firm’s defense division still remained an integral part of... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

22 Feb 2010
Op-Ed

Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

insiders who are defensive about criticism. He should add the world's top quality experts to his fix-it team and listen carefully to their advice. 3: Dig deep for the root cause. When Toyota's problems first surfaced, the company blamed a... View Details

Keywords: by William George; Auto

John K. Northrop

After frustrating attempts at aircraft engineering with many other firms, John Northrop founded Northrop Aircraft and helped it grow into a very lucrative defense contractor, providing everything from bombers, fighter jets, and... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Theresa Vescio Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium Sugar-Coated Discrimination: How Subtle Sexism Undermines Women Sugar-Coated Discrimination: How Subtle Sexism Undermines Women Work/Family Irene Padavic Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium The... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

The Western Front

summer, Hendrickson and a colleague opened an office in Silicon Valley called the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx for short. Their mission: discover new technologies that can be useful to the military, and figure out ways... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

01 Mar 2005
News

House of Bread on the Rise

McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

14 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, being at HBS and SEAS has exceeded their expectations. “As engineers, we’re excited by new technologies, pushing the limits, and building sophisticated things, but sometimes we might miss early... View Details

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Danny Cho

coming to HBS, I thought I'd pursue a career in the defense industry after school and this has remained unchanged. HBS has, however, helped me articulate why this is a passion of mine and allowed me to increase the scope of my goals.... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

Career Coach

Irtaza Ali

Irtaza started his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse New York, after completing undergrad at Wharton. At Credit Suisse he covered industrials and aerospace & defense companies. He then returned home to Pakistan to join... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Righting the Ship

projects to a historic high of 94 percent. But equally important is the higher quality of work and life for the teams. “They’re happy and proud of where they work now, but then there’s also an improvement in terms of mission. Now they can focus on the work of improving... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

Career Coach

Nikki Talerman

housing/homelessness space. Furthermore, she is happy to discuss social impact work more broadly, and help direct students to the right social impact resources within the Harvard ecosystem for whatever topic they might be interested in. Work Experience: Bain &... View Details

01 Apr 2020
News

What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

have to compete at a global level and maintain a world-class standard of quality. What's the biggest shortcoming of American business? Its low-trust culture, characterized by defensive and protective communication, hidden agendas,... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

occurred," he recalls. A friend who had gone to work for Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) suggested he interview for a defense systems analyst position at the Pentagon. From 1965 to 1969,... View Details

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

Negotiation to Gendered NegotiationsHow does gender affect negotiations within organizations or rather how do organizations affect gender relations? Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
News

A Star in LA

Angeles Times reported (January 4, 2005). Sohn had previously worked for thirty years at Wells Fargo, rising to the position of chief economist at the bank, America’s fifth largest. Sohn is known as one of the nation’s most accurate economic forecasters. “The mantra in... View Details

Keywords: Finance

25 Apr 2014
News

A revolution in healing

government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Moderna funding to develop mRNA to combat infectious diseases and biological threats. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Jan 2009
News

William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952

Francisco’s Exploratorium, Grace Cathedral, the Environmental Defense Fund, Stanford’s Bio-X, the Asian Art Museum, QB3, the United Religions Initiative, the Institute for Systems Biology, SFJazz, the Xoma Corporation, Creative Capital,... View Details

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