Harvard Business School Symposium - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)

unlike anyone else who went to Harvard Business School with me—but my words, as I recall, to her were, “I’m not the military type. I’m not at all what they’re looking for.” To... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

for.” That helps explain how it was that Rice managed to graduate with honors from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, but without employment. He did eventually land a job after college, spending two years at AT&T in a management-development program before... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men

professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence, a 48-year-old... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
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Convening Power

debate about issues that are of the greatest importance to people at this School, in this country, and around the globe.” The Klarmans’ gift is part of the Harvard Business View Details

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

Era of Climate Change, a five-part WBUR series in collaboration with Harvard Business School and Boston University Questrom School of Business.... View Details

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

for a way to bring his Harvard business skills to bear on a cause he believed in. That led to a post as the CFO of New Hampshire Audubon, where he “quickly fixed some problems due to lack of financial... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2012
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The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

innovation—such as the new required FIELD course, the Harvard Innovation Lab, and the U.S. Competitiveness Project—during the experimental phase. Once a concept is proven, the School can solicit the... View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Allston

As Harvard University transforms its Allston campus into an epicenter of research and innovation, Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) have made a gift that both accelerates that progress and catalyzes the collaboration between HBS... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

Indian consumers for future growth? At Harvard Business School we were taught about rolling plans; every year you change. We actually think that’s a bad idea. We tried rolling... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

01 Apr 2022
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Nancy Lane Remembered

Photo via ARTnews: Julie Skarratt/Courtesy The Studio Museum In Harlem Photo via ARTnews: Julie Skarratt/Courtesy The Studio Museum In Harlem Pioneering executive and arts champion Nancy Lane (PMD 29, 1975) died on March 28 at age 88. Lane was a longtime board member... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

Each year more than 900 MBA students arrive on the Harvard Business School campus eager to begin a two-year experience that promises to transform their lives. They have been... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

important to support Harvard Business School on an ongoing basis.” After studying engineering at Georgia Tech, Bill George came to HBS because it was a View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Winter Break Just Got Educational

emphasis on business opportunities in the broad field of health sciences. Focusing on different medical specialties each day, the program featured preeminent Harvard scientists such as cancer researcher Dr.... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

report things,” she says. RELATED Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Snow removal, potholes, trash pick-up, and graffiti removal; it doesn’t bring the hipster-cred of a high-tech start-up or the glamour of a swanky Wall Street address, but a core group of... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

04 Jan 2016
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Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong

each other. “Safe Horizon is almost a $60 million organization; we have about 600 staff in 60 locations. All of that requires the same excellent management that any for-profit enterprise needs. So the skills that I learned at Harvard... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

with similar backgrounds, experience, and interests for an additional perspective on the MBA Program. Dispelling the Age Myth In another new initiative, MBA Admissions has begun visiting universities to encourage undergraduates to include View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

26 Jun 2017
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Behind the Scenes at an HBS Short Program

spend your life flying from city to city? Harvard Business School doesn’t shy away from that kind of stuff, because it’s necessary. That is why you came here – things need to... View Details

09 Feb 2015
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Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

Leadership Making A Difference – HBS Alumni A Social Enterprise Visionary Making A Difference – HBS Alumni The Future of Social Enterprise and the Role of Individual Philanthropy HBS Global Business Summit -- Video Entrepreneurs: John... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr.... View Details

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