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Paola Lara

Procter & Gamble by a friend, Paola quickly established herself as a talented manager in the company’s Venezuelan and Chilean offices, assuming significant responsibilities for leading brands such as Head & Shoulders and Pantene. “I wanted to touch View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center... View Details

Career Coach

Eileen Stephan

at Morgan Stanley; with the Career Development team at HBS (1995-1999 and again 2004-2008); and as a member of the CareerLeader team. With experiences that include bridging the transition from academia to professional, to senior level... View Details

Keywords: Education; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Retail; Social Enterprise

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing new Leadership courses for the HBX platform, Professor Joshua... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program

have an even greater impact on their lives and their careers,” says Professor Joe Badaracco, senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program. For many college students, the versatility of an MBA degree is... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2003
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Flex Time

Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

08 Mar 2018
News

HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

Powell and faculty chairs Tony Mayo, Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and director of the Leadership Initiative, and Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the job... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

01 Mar 2022
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2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced

Kidwai (MBA 1982) Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc. Robert B. Wilson... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Kresge’s Afterlife

University’s associate manager of recycling and waste. “That’s especially true when recycling allows needy organizations to receive goods they couldn’t afford otherwise.” Below, we track a few of the donations to see where Kresge Hall View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

18 Jan 2017
News

HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Letters to the Editor

’59; OPM 13, 1988) Potomac, MD Levitt’s Personal Touch Changed Lives and Institutions I just read Julia Hanna’s piece on Professor Ted Levitt in the September 2008 Bulletin and belatedly hasten to add the story of how Ted Levitt changed... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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John C. Sawhill Remembered

John Sawhill, a senior lecturer at HBS and president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, died of complications from diabetes in May at the age of 63. Sawhill, whose research focused on the nonprofit sector, joined the HBS faculty in 1997... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Tata Open for Business

Executive Education participants talk about their programs as a transformational experience," says Professor Das Narayandas, senior associate dean and chair of Executive Education. And not just because of what they learn in the classroom,... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Construction of Buildings; Construction

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

the world’s population lives in cities, cities are an important place to innovate to reduce greenhouse gases. Several types of innovations offer promise [36] : Energy demand-reducing innovations that increase the efficiency of existing... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

In the Zone

majoring in economics.) “The challenges that exist in the lives of the young people we serve in central Harlem—extreme poverty, domestic violence, a single-parent household—existed in my family in one way, shape, or form,” says... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
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October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties

"Nothing I taught you about technology in management information systems has any relevance whatsoever to the world we're living in today," stated F. Warren McFarlan, the School's senior associate dean for... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; photos by Brooks Kraft

01 Mar 2009
News

The Myth of Laissez-Faire

Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big, Madrick (MBA ’71), editor of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 May 2020
News

Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details