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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
piercing blue eyes walks around at the beginning of the class and I think I skimmed the Coke and Pepsi case, maybe. He’s looking over on the other side, and I sat in the power deck: eye level with all the professors and trying to play the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
access capital. “We wrote this case because it not only tells a particular story of two student leaders effecting change,” says Bussgang, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and managing partner at the VC firm, Flybridge. “But it also speaks to larger systemic issues and points a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
leadership of the Costa Rica–based university in January 2017. To this most recent task, he brings his entrepreneurial mindset, global perspective, and firm belief in the power of young people to change the world. The innovative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
had also been a part of the underground publishing movement and was imprisoned for eight months during martial law, and their three children—spent six years in the United States before returning to Warsaw. Maj wanted to help grow Poland’s young View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
power and the attraction of capital from unproductive government uses to free enterprise," all of which has contributed to a "globalization of markets and free-market economies." One alum issued a gloomy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an open... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
work: let people be themselves; practice radical honesty; magnify people’s strengths; stand for authenticity (more than shareholder value); make work meaningful; and make simple rules. Theauthors also provide ways of assessing how a company is doing. Direct View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
million LBO in 1979 to buy the firm from Johnson & Johnson, Invacare's annual sales have grown from $19 million to $1.5 billion. "Everything starts with the product," says Mixon, who had been marketing CT scanners before doing the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Ask The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track Related Links Watch Professor Joshua Margolis on teaching business ethics to MBA students Watch Dean Nohria's TED Talk on practicing moral humility The sense of excitement... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
with power in practice, a remarkable campus, and an alumni community more than 70,000 strong. Equally important, it’s a chance to help set the agenda for management education and research for the next century, and for tomorrow’s business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
inevitable, in its progress. Not long ago, 80 percent of heroin users began by first abusing prescription opioids. Now it’s estimated that 40 to 60 percent of addicts are skipping prescription drugs and going straight to heroin. At the same time, fentanyl, a synthetic... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
to the chance to talk about why some ads work or why some fail, and how powerful or funny they can be.” More than 50 alumni and their guests attended the review, presented by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991), clinical professor of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the Irish-born explorer Ernest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who foretold the timing as auspicious.... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
2009), the company's cofounder and CEO. The device, which is powered by an electric motor, is highly customizable across a variety of medical, animal, agricultural, and cosmetic applications. One major market, says Anquetil, is diabetes... View Details