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- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
bought into that, too, until one day he had a transformational insight. “The conductor’s power depends on his ability to make other people powerful. I started paying attention to how I was enabling my musicians to be the best performers they could.” Zander also said... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders and business leaders is that they share the ability to set a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
In a recent virtual fireside chat, HBS Senior Fellow Bill George spoke with Chad E. Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), who learned that, though he lost his vision in his early 20s, blindness was a “gift” from which he developed the mental stamina... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Inspired by Dean Kim B. Clark's vision for the School, Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69), recently made a generous gift to HBS that will fund a new classroom building. "You can't succeed in the world today without having a global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
objective was to demonstrate that we could change a company by innovating a traditional product. We’ve done that, with workers who have an average age of 55. Jeannette is not really a company, it’s a different way of thinking.” It’s telling that the workers of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
keys. Around 3 a.m., he decided to walk to the WTC site. "It was a vision of hell - dark and still, except for the fires and the noise they made. There was twisted rubble everywhere, crushed fire trucks, crews of soot-covered rescue... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
really hasn’t been done here. So there’s tremendous opportunities—we can be first movers.” The long-term vision is for HabanaLive to bring business leaders to Cuba for travel, piquing interest in future trade and investment. Arranging... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the importance of the organization and had a similar vision for it," Ma says. "There's no way I could have done this job - or survived it - without her. I've never valued a partnership so much." Working together, the leaders helped... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
business. It's not show friends. So the movies that we make have to make money. And so when I'm pitching this idea to Warner Brothers I make about a Lego Movie, I have to have in back of my head of course I'm pitching a creative vision... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
internship at Edelman. Lex has the energy and vision that takes ideas that are just nuggets and turns them into reality.” Given his thoughtful approach, initiative, and passion for the mission, Goldman asked Suvanto to join LEDA’s board,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Those traits had a precedent in Langford’s parents, who provided a blueprint for what tenacity and vision look like and what it can achieve. His mother worked to desegregate local swimming pools and successfully campaigned to build a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
For its initial handful of customers, AGR has focused on high-value, high-margin but labor-intensive crops like berries and table grapes, where Burro can use computer vision to navigate between rows, following pickers to shoulder the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
the absurdity of trying to solve this problem with Nourish for us to see that the system is illogical. Our initial vision for NowAccount was very tactical. We can help small businesses get paid immediately so they don’t have to use... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
success comes with a consistent strategy. I wanted to understand what motivated them. I also spent a lot of time with the board to get a sense of their shared vision of Columbia and how they want its investment management company to be in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
change in the business world. In addition, your financial support provides a margin for innovation, allowing us to move ahead on projects that keep HBS at the forefront of business education. Your commitment allows us to embrace change, push boundaries, and broaden our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
mean just seeing customers who come to you. It is very different getting out and seeing customers on their premises. Third, rally all the employees around the common mission and vision to serve customers. Can business schools do a better... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
"great" people is just the beginning; gaining their trust and commitment is equally important. "Without that support, we can't move the company forward," states Smith. That backing, he continues, is earned through a clearly communicated View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
new logo, website, and mission statement to reflect the broader vision for the waste-to-energy business. “Combusting garbage to produce electricity in an environmentally controlled manner keeps waste out of the landfill and creates... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken