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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the University. Deborah Blagg: What is it like to teach a course where the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
lives are rich, varied, and have many different passages. — Deborah Blagg For more about A New Path, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/path/. For information about career resources and tools, visit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
entrepreneurs whose main resource when they start an enterprise is their passion. Loving what you do doesn’t guarantee success, but I believe it is the essence of creativity and of entrepreneurship. — Deborah View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that education alone can’t transform... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
lives. Many students hold these leaders accountable far beyond their business successes or failures. Can you be a great leader and not a great human being? What defines a legacy? These are questions people in business rarely address, but they are particularly poignant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
resource,” notes Sullivan. “The most important thing,” stresses Carlson, “is to do your homework and take the transition step-by-step. That way, when you land in your new role, you may have to make some adjustments, but there won’t be any big surprises.” — View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
John’s original objectives was to motivate young graduates to go to work in the nonprofit sector as their first or second job, and he has certainly done that at HBS,” says Rangan. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
public-offering practices, every business cycle produces reasons for the two of them to come together to figure out how to improve the system. The process feels a little tense at times — and we are going through one of those periods today — but the outcome is almost... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
how little definitive research there has been on a topic that has such widespread economic impact. I hope the book will begin to fill that gap. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
current board members (nearly 10 percent of the directors of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are 70 or older), Stautberg and Chin believe there will be many opportunities for Harvard MBAs to make a difference through board service in the next few years. “If you haven’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
climate change or ensure the future of U.S. public entitlement programs. It will take leadership and a brave new approach to decision-making by those at the highest levels. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
or in a cubicle on Wall Street, seeing how elements of the status quo actually inhibit desired outcomes — and breaking with those elements — is the real value-added of diversity in the workplace. —Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
DeLong: His new book offers practical advice on how to identify and surmount obstacles that hamper career growth. Related Links Watch DeLong discuss selecting the right people Congratulations to Yoni (MBA '11) and Newton (OPM 39), who won copies of DeLong's book in our... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken stock. Clad in a starched white... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
Among the 31 works in "Second Show," a recent exhibit of Wib Walling's paintings, one in particular seems to reflect the disparate paths that have brought the artist to this juncture in his life. Titled Self-Portrait, the work is a mixed-media composition of seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the first woman to become a tenured... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
think that can happen, and with more executives from HBS and elsewhere pushing for social enterprise opportunities within their for-profit careers, I believe it will happen. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
In 2011, Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) returned to his high school alma mater in Wilmington, Delaware, to serve as the first non-clergy president in the Catholic school’s century-long history. “Salesianum School’s transition to lay leadership was a big step, and it... View Details