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- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at Grant Thornton,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
crystallize action around a program that made sense." By listening and learning from all of these constituencies, Charron outlined principles and clarified a vision to help guide newly empowered associates' decision-making. Perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
Room sessions to connect HBS alumni mentors to Singapore’s startups and small and mid-sized enterprises (SME). “Our vision for the NVSC is to create a positive impact on the local startup and SME network by creating opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Philanthropies: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ I think you need to have a vision of how you can make a real difference, and have confidence that it’s going to work. And if it’s not working, be willing to adjust it, change... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
is conducted at the School. The labs will drive foundational and applied research in six topical areas that address key business and societal challenges of the new digital world. Faculty members from across Harvard, serving as principal investigators, set the View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Courtesy Meaghan Fitzgerald How did you become interested in virtual reality (VR)? “I have always been a fan of sci-fi and future tech. VR seemed to hold this promise of being something between a teleportation machine and a future computing platform—we all have View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Oishi in 2000. “She had ideas to change the system, and her thinking was different,” he recalls. Oishi led Nomaguchi and two other doctors in brainstorming a picture of the ideal medical practice, one that incorporated the best of what was available and all that was... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
maintaining a long-term vision to continually quantify and modify for ongoing improvement. It’s All About the Idea: 52 Steps to Make You and Your Team More Creative in the Next Year by Tom Tuke-Hastings (AMP 189) (The British Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education bureaucracy—in Obama's hometown. Obama's charter View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
vision of sustainability. Holding on to stringent notions is not going to lead to practical, workable solutions." Yet Vietor points out that more and more companies are spontaneously coming up with sustainable development strategies that... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
You know, in fact, my father told me that she was terrible. She didn't want children. So I had this vision of her, which was not good. But we said, we've got to do it. So I wrote a letter. It's in the book. It said I think I'm your son.... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
structure, to do this yet. Pioneering this customized therapeutic is where we’re at now. But the vision is to have a system in place, a funding mechanism—either a venture funding mechanism or in the future, more ideally, a payer... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
in? What's our long term vision for why we are here? Just like ancient mariners used compasses to kind of direct themselves, purpose was an orienting scheme. The second was: Purpose became like an operating system. It’s the way... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
with the vision of things to be done." ARD was involved with nearly fifty companies in areas such as computers, food processing, electronics, and oil-field equipment. After Doriot came an HBS deluge, with dozens of HBS venture capitalists... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 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
- 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