Purpose Of Business Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

adopting business practices. Helping students, alumni, outside business leaders, and nonprofit managers develop skills and innovations they can apply to the social sector is one View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 1999
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We are poised on the cusp of a new millennium, with all the promise and possibility such a milestone implies. At HBS, our mission for the 21st century - to educate leaders - is rooted in the traditions established by those who founded the... View Details

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2018
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The Evolving HBS Campus

civic leaders gathered for a “topping-off” ceremony to mark the occasion of the highest steel beam going into place on Harvard’s future Science and Engineering Complex. The 500,000-square-foot facility will be the newest addition to the... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Books

Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Apr 2014
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Striking a Balance

the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The course reshaped the direction of her education, leading her into a career that focused on the impact View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

innovative HBS community. We also want this new magazine to be a conversation. You'll see more of your voices throughout the stories, weighing in on everything from business challenges to classroom... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1997
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A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

you recommend as preparation for a career in venture capital? Doerr: The best preparation is operating experience in a well-managed, high-growth, high-tech company. Without that it's hard to support great entrepreneurs and teams. HBSB: What should HBS as a View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

Photos by Jeff Moore Conventional wisdom says expertise gained through years of experience is the key to business success. Conventional wisdom has never met Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975). Freeman’s unfettered... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

we had stayed with the old model, we would have run out of money. I distinctly remember advice I heard from investors and founders who had been through another crisis, the 2008 recession: Whatever you did in the past, forget it. That's... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby

Terry Finley: I used to go to the race track after school with my father on a regular basis, and all my brothers and sisters—actually four brothers are in the construction business. They're all in the cement mason business, and in the... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

aware that combining career, family, and school may be too much. In addition to working in several other government positions, Meyer previously served as chief director of management and executive services... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great... View Details