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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
Post-Gazette (September 4, 2013), a customer's online account presents "a Facebook-style timeline of your interactions with doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, and so on. Clicking one icon will refill your prescription. Click another and you are connected with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Roll the Credits
After a 38-year run as Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, Jack Valenti (MBA ’3/48) announced in March that he will step down as president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Valenti, a Houston native, was a longtime political View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its emissions.” UN Habitat Report March 2011 “ largest annual rise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
KAO: Out of conflict and apparent mistakes, a beautiful, coherent melody. The Economist magazine has called him “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator.” A former keyboard player for Frank Zappa, John Kao (MBA 1982), an HBS faculty member from 1982 to 1996, holds an... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew The facts of the ever-widening tech labor shortage are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the United States, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very human. She began to develop a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening both our dominant position in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
The care and feeding of scientists: “The most important thing is to care about their passions. As a manager, it’s important to be curious. For instance, your heart must become incredibly excited about a new polymer synthesis technique. Creative people need an audience... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Photo courtesy Andrea Silbert As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andrea C. Silbert (MBA/MPA 1992) never hesitated when asked what she was going to be when she grew up. Like her parents, she and her three siblings expected to be doctors. But things... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off,... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
attended British boarding schools before graduating from Yale as an economics major in 2001. After leaving the Ivy League, she accepted a position with consulting giant McKinsey in its San Francisco office, having turned down an offer... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
a company. There’s this myth that if you want to go start a company, you just pitch on your HBS credentials and walk into a VC office and walk out with a huge check. That’s 1,000 percent not the case. Sierra and I have built this company while working other jobs... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
Students in the second cohort of the new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program arrived on campus this summer. When Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022), a consultant in L.E.K.’s life sciences practice, first considered graduate school, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed... View Details