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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
taco bar—but local businesses have already discovered that it can also be a learning experience for professional teams, requiring real teamwork to advance through obstacle courses and solve absurd puzzles. It can take 10 to 20 or more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
77abe8cba3eedbccfb190e7c02022d30 The headlines scream of scandal and crisis in corporate governance. It’s no wonder, then, that HBS students are concerned about responding properly to ethical and leadership issues during their business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
after my father-in-law pointedly mentioned the difference in earning power between teaching and business. Although I wasn’t especially interested in a business career, when I secured admission to HBS, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence, a 48-year-old... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
Senior Corporate Advisor, Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Harvard College, 1969 A.B., Government LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "By bringing together executives from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
faculty-led immersions and the student-organized treks familiar to many HBS alums. “Part of the experience is asking students to go out and find a business problem or opportunity, which is something you’ll have to do over and over as a... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
have,” Waldron says. “You need to have an outstanding team; you have to have the right product; you have to have the business systems; you have to be the right kind of organization.” For Waldron, that means being a company with purpose.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
international institution. What's ahead for HBS after the University's launch of its online portal, EdX? We're thinking hard about how we can develop a suite of distinctively HBS online materials—what we're calling HBX. One effort, pre-MBA, includes courses to help... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
Professor Clay Christensen Professor Joshua Margolis Professor Joshua Coval Professor Tom Eisenmann Dean Nitin Nohria recently appointed four HBS professors as the first incumbents of newly created faculty chairs. Clayton Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Sunil Gupta: I think the excitement in social media happened because of the idea of earned media: You do something, it goes viral, now millions of people are talking about it,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
familiar with your systems and your culture,” notes Morris. “And we’re trying to get people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” Syrg also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
of the European Common Market in 1792. Before HBS, he worked as an M&A analyst at Morgan Stanley. In the summer between his first and second years, he worked as a summer intern at Cineplex Odeon in his native Toronto, and then upon graduation started as a senior View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details