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- 18 May 2021
- News
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their lives. Titled Charting Your Course: Alumnae View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
(MBA 1990), Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), and John Rice (MBA 1992) Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Deborah Farrington’s (MBA 1976) advice was hard-earned: ten years into her View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
In the summer when it got really hot, my brother and I would buy cases of water. We grew up in Queens near Linden Boulevard and we would stand on the corner and sell bottles of water to people who stopped at the light. We always had this knack for creating... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
play. The family had sold off a lot of its holdings, so we didn’t control the stock. And luckily, through the advice and again, listening to a classmate of mine from business school—a guy that sat next to me, a guy by the name of Peter... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
all the boxes. Here was somebody who was going to coach, mentor, advise, and give me opportunity. I got some important advice early in my career: stay on the revenue-generating side of a business. Oftentimes women are encouraged to take... View Details
- 29 May 2024
- News
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
- 04 May 2021
- News
Hubert Joly from Best Buy
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
herd, or our part in it. Rubin encourages the reader to be comfortable standing outside the herd and to develop one’s own voice, instead of sounding like others. “As soon as convention is established, the most interesting work would likely be the one that doesn’t... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
features her battle-tested advice for the newly diagnosed and their caretakers. In this episode of Skydeck, Kathy and I talk about how she learned those lessons, the mission and work of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation that she... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a demanding and exciting View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
seek funding. The experience made Daniels and Sherman consider how they could improve the chances of future entrepreneurs at every stage of the process. The answer: Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know, their new book with View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
was barely any lights, no public transportation, and an airport with one gate. I wanted the lights of the city, the bustle of a subway, the noise of a flight taking off from an airport to a new destination. When I started my career after... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
take what they know and offer advice based on our expertise that will help them get the results they want to see.” A Calling to Serve Along with utilizing his experience and HBS education, Majors says his work at Purpose Built Communities... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
documentary that (fingers crossed) appears destined for release in January. She’s just started her own record label, The 9th Floor, and is readying to launch the recording career of its first artist. It’s an ambitious lot, for sure. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start... View Details