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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
An investment banker for the past 25 years, Steve Waters says that what he likes best about his profession is "the opportunity to build businesses." A graduate of Harvard College as well as HBS, Waters spent the first part of his career... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally rewarding, de Chazal is at a point in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ethics Fellowship Announced
The Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions invites applications for Faculty Fellowships in Ethics for the academic year 2002–2003. The center encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
New York Club Asks for Donations to September 11 Relief Fund
charities that are helping the families affected by the World Trade Center attacks. A description of each organization follows. Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund provides aid to the families of victims of the World Trade Center tragedy who worked in the foodservice... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Entrepreneurship Association Forms
The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently launched the HBS Entrepreneurial Alumni Association, chaired by three prominent entrepreneurs: Joy Covey (MBA/JD ’90), Charles Richard Reese (MBA ’74), and Dan Smith (MBA ’76). The association welcomes HBS alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching
wonderfulness. >>>> For teachers who like to be in charge, discussion teaching can be a most uncomfortable assignment, yet educational. >>>> I cannot imagine a more rewarding profession than teaching. It always makes me think of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
Science: Biomedical and Life Science Focus, which attracts students from across the University. The course focuses on creating breakthroughs, working with other professions such as science, medicine, and law, and moving research from the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
professional idealism that once infused MBA programs. That, of course, would take real leadership, something that all top MBA program profess to teach but none do, McGill's Henry Mintzberg argues in Managers Not MBAs (Berrett-Koehler,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and research associate Daniel Penrice. How to Harness... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
Conducting an independent study project during his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA ’92) learned that many talented minority college students didn’t know much about the business world, and therefore leaned toward careers in law or medicine because those View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
problem—we die very expensively. It is pretty well established that 30 percent of our lifelong health care occurs in the last year of life and the majority of that in the last 30 days. The second is that the medical profession is... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
professions — from physicists to cooks — to understand how creative breakthroughs happen,” she notes. “He found that very often the most important creative breakthroughs happen where different perspectives come together, both among... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality
keeping the fund going for future students.” LeBaron professed that he was “always astounded at the quality of these young people,” while McArthur noted that “they seem more worldly wise than we were at the same stage.” “I think they’re... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
headquarters—a move spurred in part by the CEO’s professed desire to shake up the corporate mindset: Immelt, 61, also wanted a big culture shift. He asked employees to think more like they work for a startup and less like they work for a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a pioneering Harvard venture into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
caregivers and because of a perceived difference in earning power. Even among HBS grads, who puts a career on hold is often economically determined. What are some on-ramping tips? It’s essential to clarify life goals as well as career goals, and then identify potential... View Details