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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most successful business... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the founding, rise, and eventual... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Xerox as manager of multinational projects in 1979. Six years later, fate intervened again. Practically en route to the hospital to deliver her long-awaited first child, she received a telephone call: Rukia... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Illustration by Peter Arkle Illustration by Peter Arkle Sandra Oh Lin (MBA 2003) has raised enough venture capital for now, thank you very much. Lin is the founder and CEO of KiwiCo, which designs and delivers science and art project kits... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many small bets is playing it safe.... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
the social ROI of their services. “We’re helping one of our new clients to quantify the benefit it produces for its stakeholders, which will help in both management and marketing,” Chussil says, noting that the current View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
as a means of moving tax-evading money across borders, I conducted a highly structured research project involving 550 business owners and managers in 12 countries. Later, when I came to the Brookings... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
leaders established a board that included McKinsey managing partner Rajat K. Gupta (MBA '73), whose firm provided a pro bono study of the issue. "When they realized the extent of our experience in such matters," Cavanagh says, "they asked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to the teaching of corporate governance at Rice University. He recalls the day in 1972 when HBS Dean Lawrence Fouraker asked him to organize an initiative unprecedented at HBS, a venture that became known as the Energy Project at the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
In his work managing real estate investments at Samson Investment Partners in New York, Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) often draws on the same sensibilities that guide his leadership of the nonprofit New York Landmarks Conservancy. “I don’t... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: The Voice Project is an 18-year-old non-profit dedicated to protecting freedom of expression. In this conversation between Voice View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Lewis and Primo Receive Recognition for Achievements
received the groups’ Professional Achievement Award, built Essence magazine into the leading lifestyle publication for African-American women. Primo’s real-estate investment and development firm has over $4 billion under management and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
loved: acting," she says. Projects with Coca Cola, American Express, L'Oreal, and Samsung quickly followed, and Garrett balanced her voiceover business by volunteering at the soup kitchen. She first set tables and made sandwiches, then... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
about does it make people happier, more successful? Does it make companies have greater retention, better recruiting? We need to get to the evidence in order to actually change the culture around this, to enable more people to be able to take sabbaticals. As you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details