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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
loss of control, overbearing input, disproportionate reward to the wrong shareholders, or founders being squeezed out of their own businesses. Investment can also prop up a business artificially, building false hope and disappointment in the long term. Money View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Recipe
the business, founded in 1889. But it was never a given that he would do so. Initially trained as a professional chef at La Varenne cooking school in Paris, he oversaw food operations at a Florida resort before stepping up to run the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
As chair of the public health committee in the Massachusetts legislature, state senator Jason Lewis (MBA 1995) focuses on promoting prevention and wellness. In this video, he talks about applying his business training to public policy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
join the Navy during World War II, where he spent three years training pilots, before returning to complete his philosophy studies. Davidson’s writings consisted primarily of “short, crisp intellectually dense papers, rather than books,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
efforts extremely dangerous. SGN approaches the problem from multiple angles, including scout and ranger teams. Trained and equipped to cut the snares and render them inoperable, these teams also help establish informant networks to help... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
that of his father, who was trained as an engineer and ended up in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and MIT, respectively, and he spent a year pursuing advanced studies in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Global Initiative and the establishment of research centers in California and overseas have also heightened the need for faculty training and the recruitment of new teachers with a range of skills and expertise. "The School is also... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Antiquated Passenger Rail While the US freight rail system is among the best in the world, passenger service ranks 17th globally in annual passenger-miles of service. A 2013 commuter train crash in Connecticut revealed that 700,000 people... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
those skills, he says, gave him “the general management training and opportunities I knew I needed to pursue a strong leadership career in business.” Along with lifelong ties to classmates, he says courses such as The Moral Leader, taught... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
manage personnel, budget, facilities, and a diverse range of community stakeholders,” Grossman notes. “It’s not a stretch to think of them as CEOs, yet many have not been trained for that job.” To enhance their capacity to build and lead... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
close connections between economies and governments around the world. "It isn't sufficient that I try to maximize the company's bottom line," Smith says. "Other constituencies affect our success in the long run." Starbucks employees (partners) are at the top of that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
train and go home," she recalls. One day during their first year, Lambert and four black classmates started talking about the need to increase the number of blacks at the School. They decided to start the HBS African-American Student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
newfound commitment to employee training resulted in E Ink University, with courses offered in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and project management. “We absolutely expect that others will figure out ways to create a competitive product,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Last Look
hero and canine-savior, a Vietnam vet and former Navy SEAL whose training had included cold-water swimming. The photo and stories about the rescue subsequently appeared in media around the world, generating praise, honors, and even some... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
started my business, I put some emphasis on making sure women had opportunities to grow within the industry. “I set up training programs at my company, so that women could aspire to higher-level management, and I made sure that they had... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
trials, and now - showing that there is a very big economic incentive to train medical teams in Comfort Talk. “One of my big passions right now is the opiate crisis. All efforts now are directed at the back end, treating either addiction... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
as well as customer service.” What’s on his Kindle: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell; the Boston Globe; the Wall Street Journal. Why we’re in trouble: “With BlackBerries and instant messaging (IM), we live in a twitch society. People are losing their ability to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
learning firsthand about their daily challenges. “Imagine listening to callers in crisis over a 16-hour shift. It’s an emotionally taxing job. We created crisis intervention training for the 90 call takers, establishing new protocols and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg