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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
the customers who use them); adapts to new data as they become available; and has been applied to over 850 businesses acquired and integrated in one Fortune 150 company, ITW, which has consistently produced superior results. The book goes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy in the world has also View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
It’s starting to be something that founders themselves bring up.” —Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005), founder and managing partner, Glasswing Ventures But, Gompers cautions, hiring a woman as “window dressing,” often in an effort to avoid negative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
torque immediately, producing jaw-dropping acceleration—the instant-on of an iPhone versus the slow boot of a laptop. While midday Manhattan traffic does not afford many opportunities for drag racing, Kristin suddenly had me take a sharp... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
On April 25, Harvard Business School launched a campaign that will position the School for leadership in management education in the 21st century. The primary objectives of The Harvard Business School Campaign are to: Inspire... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
for alumni approaching retirement: Cut back work hours gradually, develop outside interests, and consider serving in local or state government. “You can run for office, make a contribution, and not give up your retirement. MBAs have been schooled in the View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm, American View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
whom he regularly rubs shoulders. Instead, they include the likes of Dick Serafin, a production manager at Time Warner, and Sherill R. Heron and Jonathan A. Kraft, HBS classmates whose support he is "determined to pay back." Clinkscales's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
from the management consulting firm Accenture to help HBS study the shortage of workers for “middle skills” jobs—those that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a college degree. “There are large pools of unemployed... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with no formal business or View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
because the fourth aftershock of an earthquake rarely does,” he explains, “and yet it can still be devastating.” Back to top Re·shor·ing (verb) There were visible cracks in the global supply chain for US firms prior to the pandemic, Professor of View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
room. You will never regret it, and you'll build a strong reputation." Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, Golden Seeds; blogger, Novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I'd offer three ideas to female MBAs. First, take the time... View Details