Vision - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders and business leaders is that they share the ability to set a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

celebration. We've got a big vision and now we're ready to bring it to fruition." Is your alumni club planning a milestone celebration? You can let us know by contacting clubsteam@hbs.edu. View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

businesses. Now we’re in this moment where people recognize that CSR isn’t enough. How do we help companies do more than just meet the bare minimum set of responsibilities, and actually go beyond that to deliver value to society as a whole? As more students are seeking... View Details

27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

due to the condition. In addition, 3 percent of Mexicans suffer from glaucoma and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are needlessly blind. According to salauno, only 30 percent of the Mexicans who need corrective vision procedures or... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

runner a few steps behind them, sharing the vision but not necessarily the talent? What becomes of him, when his aspirations collide with reality? When his limitations cloud his dreams? Or when injuries and life's demands curb his ability... View Details

18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition

In a recent virtual fireside chat, HBS Senior Fellow Bill George spoke with Chad E. Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), who learned that, though he lost his vision in his early 20s, blindness was a “gift” from which he developed the mental stamina... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

Inspired by Dean Kim B. Clark's vision for the School, Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69), recently made a generous gift to HBS that will fund a new classroom building. "You can't succeed in the world today without having a global... View Details

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

vision for what you want for humanity. Are we up to the task? I say a resounding, unqualified, categorical yes.” Drawing alumni from 30 countries and spanning six decades of experience, the two-day summit provided a platform to discuss... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

mentors. They have a vision of how they want to live their lives, and I still try to emulate them. And HBS helped make it all possible! BARBARA HACKMAN FRANKLIN Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964), former US Commerce... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

remember that consulting companies are very different from product companies. When I visit the LS website, it looks like the company is trying to be both. Go all in on your vision to be a product company! A potential customer wants to... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Jan 2023
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Turning Up the Volume

internship at Edelman. Lex has the energy and vision that takes ideas that are just nuggets and turns them into reality.” Given his thoughtful approach, initiative, and passion for the mission, Goldman asked Suvanto to join LEDA’s board,... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

over hundreds of years: scientifically, it's absolutely elegant." Above ground, the garden is a tranquil vision of rustling corn, nodding sunflowers, and whirring insects. Below ground, things are less idyllic. The site's previous life as... View Details

03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground

the Cicero Group in 2001, working out of his house with a few colleagues. “When I talk to young entrepreneurs today, they always ask about my business plan,” he notes. “I have to laugh. My business plan was a mortgage and a baby on the way.” Business plan or no... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

CEO," he has written. "A real leader must develop and articulate a sound vision and strategy, establish ethical standards, set examples for managers, know how to build and use the power of teamwork, and achieve objectives regardless of... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams (MBA 1987) pitched a new View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act

Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and... View Details

08 Mar 2018
News

HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

amplification, and net equity. “Its likeability doesn’t matter if these things aren’t in place,” adds Calkins, who also serves as a co-academic director of the Kellogg on Branding Executive Education program. Behind every Super Bowl ad is an intriguing business story,... View Details