Harvard Business School Symposium - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2016
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New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview

leaders each year who will be transformed, form strong relationships with one another, and make a positive difference in their own way. We want to reach all the exceptional leaders we can, and let them know how Harvard View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

DNA of innovators. What they have to say might surprise you. Can people learn to be more innovative? Clayton Christensen Christensen Photo courtesy Harvard Business School I... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; 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

27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

flying eye-hospital; and Airlink, a disaster-relief organization. This year, Liu became an Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow at Harvard University, and serves as an adjunct professor at University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit... View Details

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

purpose-driven, and that’s why it appealed to me,” she says. Kovatch’s passion for innovation and solving complex challenges at Covanta led her to found a consultancy, Fueled for Growth, where she helps businesses to find value for their... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor

amount they paid for newspapers to 25¢ a 100, I retired from the business. I returned to the Business School as a student in 1962. Of course, Harvard Way Extension was long... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

Kortenhorst: Well, first and foremost, I have been incredibly lucky to bump into Searl on the day before classes started, in the Boathouse Bar between the business school campus and View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by students from HBS and the View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

Corporation, where he was involved in product planning for their Music Video on Demand software. So how did an aspiring entrepreneur with an engineering degree become a rock star at Harvard Business School?... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround

leadership style or his approach to broad challenges such as communications, change, and decision-making. About thirty multimedia cases are currently available in CD format through Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2001
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Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa

sisters to private school and providing them with a culturally rich home life — this bright young woman, whose Nigerian first name means “Thank God,” has made it a priority to help children who have not been as fortunate as she. As a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; UNICEF; Educational Services

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

model were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. An inspirational story of grit and determination, Lift Off is also an uncommon lesson in best View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

Defining Moments by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Harvard Business School Press) How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? What should you do if a... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Competition. “It was my first time living in another African country, and I felt more alive than I had felt in a long time,” she observes. Rewane left the Monitor Group to join the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA), a think tank based in Nigeria started by... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

its entrepreneurial culture. "This is the sort of learning we could never replicate in class," says Bhide. Calling All Business Planners! Whether they submit the top entry or not, all participants in the first annual HBS View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., View Details

19 Sep 2016
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Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)

Thomas Murphy (MBA 1949) A cold call during Thomas Murphy’s first year convinced him to make the most of his Harvard Business School experience. When a professor called on a... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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A Shared Vision for a Better World

Harrold returned home, he earned a master’s degree in political science but ultimately realized academia wasn’t for him. “I decided I was better suited for the business world where strategic and decisive thinking are more valued,” he... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

News. And as soon as he graduated in 1953, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became an officer. Fast forward to 1959. Just out of Harvard Business School, Donaldson, 28, was rooming with Dan Lufkin (MBA... View Details

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