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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
consultant at A.T. Kearney in Lisbon, Fernandes decided to try out the alternative career she would consider as a final test of her calling to academia, so between her MBA years she interned in the human capital division at Deloitte... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
some $3 billion. Born in Ireland in 1932, Dunphy studied law at Oxford University, but he discovered an intriguing career alternative when students visiting from Harvard Law School mentioned HBS during a moot court exercise. Dunphy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
Thailand. “A big takeaway for me was the necessity of being on the ground to understand country-to-country differences,” observes Selena Kalvaria (HBS 2013). “It’s not possible to have a catchall ‘emerging markets’ category.” As an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
team, avoiding group think, and embracing alternative points of view. Often I would read a case and think I had the answers. I’d later discuss the case with my living group and realize that I may have taken a narrow view of the issues.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
their careers. “For us, the answer was partly ‘let’s build something that’s different than what you see out there, and let’s build a firm that can succeed.’ So, that’s what we’ve done with Avance,” says Perez, the firm’s managing partner. View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bank after a distinguished career as a Wall Street investment banker. "I wanted a program that would stimulate their thinking and make them aware of different approaches to problem solving and implementation of alternative courses of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
community engagement, design, and affordability as the key elements of improving housing conditions for the poor. It provides an alternative to traditional models of mass-housing developments that lead to social exclusion. “We envisioned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
Schwab. With the company originally conceived as an alternative to traditional brokerages, Schwab's breakthrough, Goldman asserts, was to understand the Internet as more than just a new tool for fine-tuning its original specialization as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. “For many small businesses, that meant tough times got even tougher, which inspired us to look for alternative solutions that put people first,” Dyer says. Ezeji-Okoye asked Dyer,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
"mainstream" organizational culture. But Meyerson argues that these "everyday leaders" can act as crucial sources of new ideas, alternative perspectives, and organizational learning and change. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
provocative counterpoint to the mega-hit book Who Moved My Cheese?, in which mice are forced to deal with change in their environment (a maze) because their cheese keeps disappearing. The moral seems to be, if you want to survive, adapt. Malhotra’s book presents an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
livelihood generation. But the people who were nominated by their community as high-growth entrepreneurs had a 25 percent monthly return on investment, and the people who weren’t nominated averaged no return at all. That was our first signal that some of these View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
hurdle over a long period of time. We don’t think about how we do that in any one year. We think about how we do that over the course of 10 years. And so it means going into new markets, it means looking for inefficiencies, it means building a team that we know will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
is the book income they produce. The proposal to publicly report taxes paid is an eminently sensible idea. More ambitious alternatives should also be considered, including making corporate tax returns public so shareholders can benefit... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
displace traditional hydrocarbons as the primary source for energy, particularly for large scale transportation, for at least the next 10 to 15 years. We think, and I personally believe, that traditional demand for hydrocarbons will continue to grow, even as technology... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
have their stacks of bottles burst as a SodaStream user hits the machines' carbonation button. The message: making your own soda saves the world from the scourge of plastic bottles. The ad was rejected by CBS but went viral, ultimately pushing the message of SodaStream... View Details