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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
human patients. Doyle believes NovoCure has the potential to become an important company with a major new cancer therapy platform but must complete pivotal (Phase III) clinical trials and receive FDA approval. Doyle's venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
This session was an opportunity to elevate and acknowledge the weight and the pride that many Black students experience as the first in their families and communities to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. This action alone, for many will be a View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
forced to work from home in the pandemic, it pivoted from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
as Digitas, AKQA, and TWBA—when, in 2013, a shared workspace coffee-bar conversation provoked the career pivot that would launch her new business venture, Prokanga. “I had a bunch of interactions with people who were starting companies,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu (MBA 2021) came to HBS as an accomplished professional, having spent seven years driving impactful projects at GE Healthcare in Ghana. As she looked ahead to the next stage of her career, she felt both a desire to View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
supportive of founders working on businesses while in school from providing Summer Fellowships, coaches, mentors, and advisors to offering funding through the Rock Accelerator and Rock Incubator Programs. The funding my business has received from the Rock Center has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical Engineering LESSONS FROM HBS “The Human Behavior in Organizations course... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
her during a dinner conversation with her boss, who had recently sold his previous company for several million dollars. “He was highly driven, over-stressed, and going for the next carrot,” she recalls. “I remember thinking, ‘When is it enough?’ That was a View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
about all that CEM has to offer in regards to sustainability and to showing the leading stance that emerging markets have taken on this pivotal issue. We invite you continue to follow our collaboration with the Business & Environment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to lead the Alumni Association over the last two years at such a pivotal time in the School’s history. Susan Luick Good (MBA ’71) May 2003 View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
which has pivoted to deliver PPEs globally to places that need the most. Prerna Arya (MBA 2021), Swasth: Swasth is a nonprofit initiative that aims to democratize access to quality, affordable, primary care for any citizen in India,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
about the opportunity to pivot from a large corporation to a small business and build the general management skills he would need to eventually start his own company. Arriving at HBS, Linzmeyer hit the ground running and used every... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
challenge—the business world. “I knew that if I were to pivot in my career that it had to begin at HBS.” Her decision to apply was influenced by the School’s need-blind admission policy and generous fellowship program, which has also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
chair. Key figures in the initiative credit Whitehead with playing a pivotal role in the program’s success. Professor emeritus Jim Austin, a cofounder and former chair of SEI, calls Whitehead “an extraordinary social entrepreneur who... View Details
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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
resource to learn about milestones in the School’s history, documenting not only pivotal moments and key decisions, but also the dialogue and debate that led to those decisions. In addition, our extensive collection of research and... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2021
headed by Miguel, Margolis sought out a protagonist that was not only charged with developing employees, but was also at a pivotal moment in her own development. That’s a situation in which many PLD students find themselves. Choosing... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
and so on. My pivot from the business world to journalism happened in 2016, when a friend who was working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign called. At the time, I was CEO of an education startup, but I’d spent 14 years building... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
intended to build an e-commerce platform, but she changed course and invested in bricks and mortar when she saw a need for customer-friendly neighborhood stores. The pivot offered a personalized shopping experience that relied on a cadre... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young