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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Jeff Balash (MBA '73/74) was one of the eighty graduates who returned to HBS for the program. photo by Justin Knight Rapid changes in technology and the shifting realities of the global marketplace make lifelong learning a necessity for... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
skill transfer—the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game By Andrew Binns, Charles A. O’Reilly III, and Michael L.... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Corp. in Tokyo recalled, "In my day, there were fifteen or twenty terminals in the basement of Baker Library. By comparison, what is now happening at the School is really amazing." Yet as Robert J. Barrett... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an appropriate way to help people... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
by what might be the shortest dot-com career on record. He accepted a job offer at an Internet startup in New York City at the height of the bubble, only to have the business fold just as he and his wife were packing for the move. “The... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
over the mountain and a white dove flying in a circle. That was the day I turned the corner.” Jefferson would ultimately move forward with his vision and get his life back on track. First, however, he needed an inspiring combination of purpose and direction. “I took a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
they’d ask, ‘Who are you?’ I’d reply, ‘I’m your Schlumberger engineer.’ They’d say, ‘No, you’re not. Send a guy out.’” This was in 1994, and after explaining a replacement would not be coming, Kovatch would get to work. By the end of the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business
the conventional path promoted by many business schools—leading students to aspire to join large-scale corporations or to pursue the fast track of the startup world, versus following the less glamorous or seemingly less lucrative work of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the immersion. (photo View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
had trouble with social things. You know, in later years, all that got corrected by taking an anticonvulsive drug, which I still take. But it was a factor, definitely, in my life, in that period. JH: Despite that setback, Wilson was... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Illustrations by the Voorhes Edited by Julia Hanna Complete and utter defeat was something Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) had never really experienced. Academically advanced and musically gifted, she attended... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
graduates, ages 31 to 66, reported that they were stay-at-home mothers—a much lower percentage, Ely noted, than recent media coverage would suggest. Other events included discussions led by 12 faculty members of Professor Boris... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
IT consulting company, and my mother was a therapist. I grew up with a real love and understanding of what it takes to build a business brick by brick, as well as a deep curiosity for what makes people tick. At HBS, whenever we had the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their web links. Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals without Mandates Associate Professor... View Details