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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
Wien, advisory board member Laurene Sperling (MBA ’82) views fellowships as a way to ensure that students with broad interests come to the School. Having served on several nonprofit boards, she sees the need for leadership skills in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
example of what results when people from throughout the Harvard community come together to pursue their ideas. "Five years ago people weren’t really talking about an interdisciplinary curriculum," says Joseph J. O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
changes mark the end of an era for the traditional essay. To honor that era, we asked alumni in our Facebook and LinkedIn communities what they remembered about penning their pitches to MBA Admissions. "I recently found my application... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to translate their time in the military... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
Although Andrew Tisch might attribute the family’s philanthropic record to nature—“Being involved in the community has always been part of the family DNA,” he says—nurture has played a role as well. Tisch’s parents and aunt and uncle set... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the HBS community is that HBS offers incredible optionality and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
stories embody what makes HBS such a remarkable community and hint at the potential contributions these talented young people will make as alumni. While we always enjoy talking to these students, we can’t say that selecting them is an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
raised in a wealthy community in southern New Jersey, Moore spent most summers at his father’s family camp near the lake in the wilderness of central Maine. When his parents divorced—an unusual occurrence in 1920—12-year-old Moore took... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
“think different,” to borrow a slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with this eternal conundrum. Easy Rider Martin Snoey (MBA ’72) Age: 61 Home: Mercer Island, Washington “My sense is that life is not a simple sequence of events,” says Martin Snoey. “Instead, it’s a continual trade-off among career, family, hobbies, and View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
collective that is devoted to teaching skills of fire arts, and welding, and building, and leadership, in particular for women, but for anyone who wants to join in. So what they built was a 60-foot long flame-throwing dragon who was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
internal evaluation of your values, your resources — financial and human — and your ability to communicate with your family. How should people’s values influence the way they manage their money? If you have money and don’t have good... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
strategic thinking in terms of how you manage these types of projects, how you manage investors’ expectations, and how you manage partners. “I see a lot of great research going on within HBS,” Shih continues. “I’m struck by the opportunities we have to develop more... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
better understand the challenges various groups face and appreciate what each person brings to the table. “A core general management skill today and tomorrow is the ability to make the most out of human differences,” Rivkin notes.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard learning new View Details