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- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
will be ice-free every summer. The response Payne hears to this warning from potential funders and partners is different than it was even five years ago. “You don’t need to explain to people the severity of the problem,” Payne says. As he speaks in late August 2020,... View Details
Keywords: April White
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
writing a founders’ agreement. You’ll learn tactics for dealing with difficult situations, like firing an employee, pivoting your business model, or selling/closing the business. The course supplements case studies and discussions with... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
certain aspects of sponsorship programs can hinder women instead. Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than MenWomen caught in misconduct were 20 percent more likely to be fired and 30 percent less likely to find new employment in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
World founded 1909 Uprising of the 20,000 female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditions Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
semester, Roberto notes that it gives MBA students a chance to reflect on what kind of manager they want to be. “It also evokes a lot of emotion,” he adds, particularly after Levy fires his COO. “The class is universally in awe of Levy,... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog
sell.” -Dean Nohria This course explores the complex subject of how to build, manage, and scale the first sales force including how to: Hire your first salesperson and sales leader Develop a scalable demand generation program Pay your first salesperson Train, manage,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
LovePop. You’ve been in front of VCs before. How does this experience differ? It’s so different. My experience with pitching VCs is in a much more casual environment. It’s at a coffee shop, at a conference room table—it’s never you standing in front of five competing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
plastic body armor. Two years later, the new “Doron” body armor passed a stress test designed to quell officers’ nerves—a live demonstration that featured the firing of live rounds at an officer wearing a flak jacket filled with Doron... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
it. It didn’t matter what we were working on, she was going into the fire with me. We have a saying about our friendship: I start fires and then she puts them out or maintains them as appropriate. View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Soon she’d covered her fire escape with tomato vines, and when the fire department gently reminded her that wasn’t the purpose of the space, she branched out. “My first community organization project was to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’
sound of birds and the sun peering through my blinds; I soon head over to the neighborhood gym, located in the garage of the Law Enforcement quarters. 8am – Coffee is brewing at the office. My co-consultant and I have an office in the Firehouse, about a mile away from... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
has taught me to find beauty in things such as the unintentional color blocking in a row of buildings or the intricate designs of an ordinary fire hydrant or doorknob. Opening your eyes can open your heart. That’s when we really connect... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
mid-July, the Board delivered its final report to the Dean and Professor Warren McFarlan. I will share their review of the report with you in a subsequent issue of the Bulletin. In the meantime, the Board is fired up for its fall meeting... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
before forming Indivers, a holding company that included Europe's first independent maker of extrusion dies. When a fire forced him to rebuild his facility in 1966, he discovered that he could also use his new machines to drill precise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Taking the Lead in Support of HBS
"When it comes to innovative business education, HBS leads the way. I contribute on a regular basis because it's important to me that the School continues on that path." —Andrew Hauptman (MBA 1995) Chairman, Andell, Inc.; Owner and Chairman, Major League Soccer's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
midmorning, and I’m firing on all cylinders in the evening—but that doesn’t necessarily work for everyone else.” Getaway: A cottage in Yorkshire with springer spaniels and horses. Equine escape: “If you’re riding, you have to concentrate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Portrait Project
Athena Ko
I am a gemologist by training. I know a piece of rough looks like any other pebble that gets caught in your shoe - it's the skilled eye and hand of a lapidary that unleash the brilliance, fire and scintillation of the diamond within.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
helicopter. He was on the firing line in Marine operations in Somalia and Haiti, but it was in Eastern Europe that he was put to his greatest test. At 4:30 a.m. on June 8, 1995, Walsh, by then a captain, was the lead pilot as four... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud of twenty years from now,”... View Details