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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts... View Details
- Portrait Project
Derrick Leung
I earned my first promotion at the age of eight. "Up to the front," my father directed, "you get to hold the map." Starting my inaugural tour as first mate, I was eager to uncover our buried treasure – the endpoint of our family View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Inigo Amoribieta
I plan to travel far. Our world today is one of superstar athletes, teenage popstars, business executives, news reporters, and central bankers. One where we value people by the end points they reach in life,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alok Sanghvi
"Drive a red Porsche" is probably what I would have responded 15 years ago. Back then I fully expected to be a lawyer, married, and able to dunk a basketball by now. Well, things have changed since my days of ripped jeans. Today, I'm more concerned with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
HBS, where Jones took an entrepreneurship in public education elective with Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who now heads NewSchools Venture Fund. Childress urged her to enter the field, but Jones, intent on paying off her loans, opted for a... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
which he started in April 2016, puts his business experience to work, managing everything from roads and cemeteries to libraries and sewerage systems. Within the organization, Gower has focused on increasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Sachdev (MBA 2013) found that the companies that thrived shared five common traits. In a recent working paper, Lal and Sachdev lay out these best practices, which include an open and flexible regulatory structure, business models that focus View Details
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- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) is a retired business executive and author of The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond. In this interview, she talks about using her position as a... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
endured years of poverty, conflict, and corruption. “I’m passionate about the difference technology can make in people’s lives,” he says. In six months, Khoja and his workforce of willing yet largely untrained workers had cleared roads of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Elizabeth Chang
the most Of whatever I've selected. So I want to live for the present Not only focus on future days To reflect on the road I've traveled And gather the rosebuds while I may.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Charlotte Keeley
At some intersections, the corner sidewalk square is textured, serving as a tactile warning to the visually impaired that the road is just beyond. Growing up, my twin sister and I were puzzled by these pebbled squares in our neighborhood.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
BEI is delighted to bring you this mini-series on HBS alumni tackling problems related to water and climate change. Emotional and visible connection to a topic is key to driving action. There seem to be few issues and topics that conjure... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Joanna Barsh
go of feeling safe. Five years later, my dream feels real. Yes, I was scared at the time, but now I see that road as the very one I should have taken. In each of us, there is both hope and fear, light and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
not thought of as being part of the founder DNA, but it is a critical one of for you to have as you’re grappling with this. There are at least two levels of the self awareness. One of them we already talked... View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Mahoney
People Might Think. In class recently, a classmate suggested in 30 years cars may not touch the roads when they drive, which led to a small chorus of laughter from others as if to say "that's ridiculous." In that moment, when... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jacquie Sandberg
Like lots of MBAs, I pretty piously followed a traditional metric of success. Recognition, compensation, and career progress ostensibly paved the road to achievement. But then my sister got sick. Really sick. So she left her studies at... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ana Kotevska Tracey
debated our ethnicity and right to self-determine. My national identity has been questioned and negated. Scornful customs officers scoffed at the name on my passport. Kids I met in the region kept telling me my country shouldn’t exist.... View Details