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- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012). “One of the best parts of my... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
break to earn his MBA (with distinction), and then continued up the ranks as submarine squadron commander and finally deputy oceanographer of the Navy. After retiring from the Navy, he took an assignment with the Defense Advanced Research... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
has not yet been chosen—industries where all the brands are perceived as the same. (Here, think financial services, health care, and retail.) These industries are most at risk for disruption by this generation and offer an opportunity for a brand to View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
war of the handhelds,” Dubinsky is well aware of the challenges facing Handspring. “This is an explosive market,” she says. “We need to create outstanding products, build a great company to deliver those products, and get some lucky View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
where we don't speak about business matters—going on a jog together, date night, or work-free vacation. A break is healthy for everyone to recharge, regroup, and reflect." How do you use what you learned at HBS at IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
way. That was fairly predictable. The goal is to break through those stereotypes to establish a nuanced understanding of what makes an MBA or a scientist tick. How does the course accomplish that? We begin by going into some depth as to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
with this group that she describes as “very intellectual and certainly not in it for the money.” Two years ago, Reade reports, “We were thrilled to break $40,000 in revenues.” That number, she explains, is significant in that it enables... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
Greylock Partners, one of the country’s first—and foremost— venture capital firms. “I don’t think the term ‘venture capital’ was in anyone’s vocabulary when we were students,” he notes. Joining Greylock and overseeing its early involvement in the software industry was... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
to take over the show. Singer had been told that writing a spec script was the way to break into the business, so he wrote a spec West Wing, which happened to be one of his favorite shows. “The writing probably wasn’t very good, but I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
experience of being the first woman to receive tenure at HBS. What was it like to break that barrier? The day I won tenure in 1981 I was teaching in the Program for Management Development, and that morning my students brought roses and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
they spent their winter breaks from college on a scale from 1 (“no regret at all”) to 7 (“a lot of regret”). Some of the students were contacted a week after returning from their winter break; other students were asked to look back on how... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
rest of life and create an opportunity to make a psychological break from the past, Beshears says. These moments, such as a new calendar year or a birthday, lend themselves to high-level thinking in a way that the average Tuesday just... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
(www.sitesalive.com). On November 27, Great American II sailed into Melbourne Harbor, breaking Mandarin's record by some 29 hours. "This is the first land we've seen since New York, but I tell you, it never gets dull out there," Wilson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
participants will end up with the right level of risk taking, so regulation is important. There are also periods of crisis, like the one we just experienced, when financial markets generally break down. And that’s when the government can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
value, to promise so much more good than harm. Such is the sobering message about the high stakes of technology decision-making that rings in the ears of tomorrow’s managers as they leave the classroom. Rocket Science and Socrates Taking a View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
information. The role of this case is not to assess how well the intelligence community is doing. Rather, its purpose is to provide an extreme example of the challenge of differentiating and integrating an organization — that is, breaking... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
a conflict of business models—an organization can either kill people and break things, or help people and make things. To do both well is impossible,” he says. The transitory nature of the US military presence also made it hard to create... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
if there was a long period between song releases, they had to make sure to fill that time with new visual stimuli for the fans. BY THE NUMBERS Breaking Down the Blockbuster Between 2007 and 2011, Elberse found, Warner Bros. spent $6.5... View Details