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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
many people who were living on the margins of society.” She also found the work at HBS challenging. “I think HBS is a very rigorous place academically, and I think that’s what makes it great,” she observes. By the time she graduated, with a joint degree in View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
56 alumni who were highly engaged in the conversation. GNN, HBS Club of Nigeria Drake brings deep experience in leading diversity initiatives for higher education organizations, and started his talk by sharing his initial observations of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful performing arts... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
organizational behavior, managerial accounting, and social enterprise. But each chapter of this book gives readers insight into the tremendous leadership of John H. McArthur and the immense accomplishments of the School during the years... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public health measures... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many small bets is playing it safe.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
three MIT scientists founded E Ink in 1997. “I was the business guy,” says Wilcox, who over time has held senior leadership roles at the company in areas ranging from sales and marketing to finance to R&D. Twelve years later, the company... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Wellesley friend who was Nelson Doubleday's secretary suggested I talk to him, I was open to the idea, and he offered me a job in the research department for the same salary. It was appealing to work in a company that was trying to hire MBAs and become more of a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
his own company building environmentally sustainable live/work projects in New Mexico. “They were high density, they were affordable, and we recycled the water from them,” Wiviott explains. “It just made sense. I mean, my life felt better... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new factory on 760 acres at Paine Field... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
appeared in 1925, Harvard Business School has sent forth tens of thousands of MBA and Executive Education graduates into the world. As managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, the School's alumni body collectively has had an impact on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Tarun Khanna, the George Paulo Lemann Professor Penguin Random House, India Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Founded in 2008 by Sal Khan (MBA 2003), Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a simple mission: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Today,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
players to the table, none driven by purely economic rationale, says Lee Sandwen (MBA ’77, JD ’78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
visitors today can enjoy guided tours and afternoon tea. But the idea of building a museum didn’t take shape until 2010, several years after he turned over Caldic’s leadership to his son Olav (AMP 169, 2005), who now serves as managing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Publishing Platform The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (MBA 1993) Palgrave Macmillan This candid memoir takes readers into some of the darker corners of Wall... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) was born in Lagos and educated in the United States, but always wanted to return to Nigeria. And not just because he missed family or... View Details