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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
When it comes to starting new ventures, some people think big picture and others dive into the details. When Robb Turner (MBA 1990) talks about the start-up of his flourishing maple syrup company, it’s obvious he’s pretty good at both. A West Point graduate with a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012). “One of the best parts of my... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Mahadeva Photo courtesy Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) founder, chairman, and CEO Wijayaraj A. (“Kumar”) Mahadeva explains how his company can help businesses still reeling from “post-bubble hangovers.” “We keep the mission pretty simple,”... View Details
- 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
- 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 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 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
down the road and looking to change direction, don’t hesitate to jump in. I’m a huge fan of starting your own company, because I think it lets you get closer to life. Your destiny is in your own hands. If it’s Sunday night and you’re not excited about going to work on... 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 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me that running a flea market is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
It's impossible to talk for long with Shari Hubert without hearing her mention the importance of "giving back." In fact, when she is asked to reflect on her most significant accomplishments to date, she doesn't at first mention that she won a city-wide college... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based division of the biotech giant... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Photography by Michael Stravato From cofounding the first aerial tramway high above Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy, to helping a two-person wind-energy startup become an industry leader, to making a quixotic run for US Congress, Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) isn’t one to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Christian Bjelland
As president and fourth-generation owner of Chr. Bjelland & Company, an industrial holding company headquartered in Oslo, Christian Bjelland has more than enough challenges to fill any given workday. But over the last decade, Bjelland has devoted himself to an equally... 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
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix it, the city rolled out in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg