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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
you can create the right environment for a group to address issues together." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Never underestimate the importance of the 'softer' management lessons you learn at HBS—the ones that revolve around working with and leading others. As your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and female founders—a time of day more compatible with family schedules than the typical evening and weekend offerings. It has also organized a volunteer group of investors, mentors, and advisors for weekly “office hours” to review pitch... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
President Obama, explained Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and one of four members of an afternoon keynote panel. While social enterprise organizations once viewed... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
increasing the country’s food supply. Sustainable America takes a two-pronged approach to these issues: education and investment. Sustainable America’s education initiatives are typical of the approach taken by many nonprofits, with a Buzzfeed spin. The View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
after the fall of Saddam Hussein. After the United Nations headquarters was bombed in Baghdad, most UN officials and nongovernmental organization (NGO) workers fled the country. That left the US military tasked to build schools and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital business at Mercer, and before... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
world’s top corporations. Why do some of these organizations enjoy generations of success while so many others flounder? “The answer,” say Lorsch and Tierney, “lies in the ability to develop and motivate star talent, while explicitly... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
Buckley Brinkman (MBA 1986) is executive director/CEO of the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, which provides consulting services and programs to help manufacturers grow their businesses and become more profitable. In this video interview, he talks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency and accountability from the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
stay patient. There is so much we want to and could do, but there are only so many hours in a day.” Why should companies consider purchasing art from ArtLifting? "Oftentimes, companies come to us when they're already in the market for art. In situations like these,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
offer, but Moret knew that Virginia could make a strong case. Both his own career and the planning he had undertaken in the early months of his tenure were perfectly aligned with this unexpected opportunity. Moret was first introduced to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon