Women And Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
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Action Plan: Horse Sense

In Thoroughbred racing, no one knows for sure how to pick a champion. But after decades in the business, Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) is probably a better guesser than most. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; horse racing

09 Nov 2023
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How to Get Employee Buy-In to Execute Your Strategic Initiatives

25 Nov 2022
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How Companies Can Partner with Nonprofits

01 Dec 1996
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October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties

reception at the Fogg Art Museum. Women from the Class of 1971 held a breakfast in the Cumnock Conservatory, and the Class of 1966 bicycled through the fall foliage in suburban Lincoln. A Reunion first was... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; photos by Brooks Kraft

01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence —... View Details

Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change

aware of the BEI’s climate-focused road show and was eager to bring it to D.C. “I was very pleased with the turnout, and at the end we had a handful of people sign up to participate in an ongoing discussion... View Details

18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

Where did you go after you graduated from HBS? “I spent three and a half years working at Google on mobile advertising and have been at Yahoo, also working on mobile monetization, since October 2013.” What... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid

places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just as he and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

27 Sep 2021
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Sewn with Love

When Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, heard stories of the shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers faced with the coronavirus crisis, the fashion-industry... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

game-changing ideas, these examples of pathbreaking research emerged from HBS faculty members early on in their careers. Today Porter holds the Bishop William Lawrence University Professorship and Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing

also serves as chairman of Singapore's National Science & Technology Board. In addition, he has played an active leadership role over the last two decades as a chairman and board member in some of... View Details

Keywords: Government

02 Jun 2020
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I Cannot Remain Silent

Keywords: Mike Mullen

01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling

her long ordeal might be over. It had begun nearly a year earlier, in 1989, when Chai, a 23-year-old Beijing University student, was elected "chief commander" by the Tiananmen Square dissidents because of her leadership skills View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; photograph by Webb Chappell

25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver

Encyclopedia Britannica. A little less, maybe the World Book. Neither of my parents went to college. In our case, they struggled to buy a letter a week of the encyclopedia available through the A&P, where we bought groceries. That was how I learned about the... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

22 Jul 2014
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Hungry for Change

matter of helping people see the prevalence and consequences of hunger as well as the possibilities of a solution." An HBS Leadership Fellow at Mercy Corps, Zeaske has also worked at Jumpstart, a language... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture