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- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
says, "The School's environment encourages you to dream bigger, to realize that more is possible. I knew I wanted to assist in Africa's development, but HBS helped add much greater clarity as to how I would actually go about doing that.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss retailing trends and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
of Maryland.” In the beginning: “I found business just impossible. Had you known me five or seven years into my business experience, you would’ve said, ‘We had all hoped so much for him. But it’s a shame the way this is working out.’ ” A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
projects. Great people will leave basic research and move to more predictable pastures. And some great young people will decide not to go into research careers at all. The precipitous shift in the legal and regulatory environment for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
"They must also develop a working knowledge of what our educational environment is about and what the norms and expectations are." Help on Arrival Intensive coaching sessions, such as those offered through... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Named Treasury Secretary in 2006, Paulson led the country through one of its most challenging periods of financial turbulence. A lifelong environmentalist, he and his wife, Wendy, work to protect natural resources around the world. Whom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tools learned building CFK to become a more effective counterinsurgent and peacekeeper. The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas (DBA ’87) (Jossey-Bass)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
values, and corporate accountability. In early 2003, Dean Kim B. Clark appointed the interdisciplinary group of senior faculty members to the design team. Meeting weekly to hash out their ideas, the group worked together closely to create... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids By Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) Harvard Business Review Press Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we’ve never had a trusted, go-to guide all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
Do successful firms in different countries share cultural traits? HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's long-standing interest in this and related research has led him, with Professor John U. Farley of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School, to examine the forces at View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry"... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
about how people think and what motivates them, and I was completely wrong. It really inspired me to create and facilitate a work environment where people are inspired and given the opportunity to View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
A native of Aliceville, Alabama, Lisa Churchville attended HBS while on educational leave from IBM. Upon graduation, she changed paths and pursued her interest in broadcasting, working as an account executive for ABC before joining NBC in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
without selling the company. More on that later. Going light on the environment in the manufacturing process was a big deal to Kim and Coup, too. Their ultra-light philosophy and eco-friendly mindset drive every GoLite idea and product:... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the outliers. That's not the norm.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their own View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
been successful, all the way up to the C-suite. Look for an organization with a truly flexible culture, where new ways of thinking are embraced. Women are most successful in work and in life when they build careers in companies that value... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
to mitigate these risks to maximize the social return, and shed new light on what might have originally been a questionable business case. For young managers seeking to grow global careers, this implies several things: First, working in... View Details