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- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global decorative-ceiling View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance.” Koehn’s response follows. First, there are many important lessons for business leaders to be found in areas outside business. When we look at enduring works of literature, for example, we... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
try, how can you hope to succeed? Provide closure. This idea is ripped straight from McGrath’s excellent 2011 Harvard Business Review article “Failing by Design”: “Have a symbolic event—a wake, a play, a memorial—to give people closure.”... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
runner-up status in the 2013 Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition at HBS. “I didn’t expect to be a social entrepreneur when I came to HBS, but our team viewed the problem as a ticking time bomb,” says Rewane. “We started... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 May 2018
- News
Winning Bid
Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise As head of eBay’s multi-billion dollar Arts & Collectibles platform, Sam Bright (MBA 2009) oversees more than 50 million listings, ranging from rare... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course via the OpenIDEO platform to write “The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” published in Harvard Business Review Illustration by Theispot “It’s a steamy summer night in New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Clubs: Capital Improvements
committee stacked with former cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and other Washington notables—would be a much larger affair, one with the goal of raising the profile of the DC business community, often overshadowed by the federal... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
week we're thinking of new ways to effectively reach people,” says Pasquariello. “And learning and adapting.” Susan Young: What is the impact of the virus on the neighborhoods you serve? Justin Pasquariello: Our community has a lot of service and restaurant workers. So... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT: HBS Fund The HBS mission—to educate leaders who make a difference in the world—resonates deeply with Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018). “My goal is to utilize... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket and no family connections on the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure. Outside help was available, but often inadequate. A similar infrastructure collapse on a national scale, Popik says, could result in millions of deaths rather than thousands. That’s why Resilient Societies has been a strong proponent of cost-effective... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
you talk about how this work comes together in your new elective? There is a dual focus to the course: managing one's individual talents, and managing gender diversity in the workplace. In addition to the research I've mentioned, I drew on data collected from the 75... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
worlds, where she helps others develop enterprises that fulfill their passions. “My path has been entrepreneurship and creating businesses—investing in others and in other companies,” says Coutu, chairman of Porpoise Ventures in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
impactful as an adult,” crediting Professor Michael Tushman’s ideas for the inspiration and title of his TED talk, “The Ambidextrous Opera Company.” In a recent episode of the Atlanta Opera podcast The Business of Opera, Zvulun talks to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
than ever. The Bulletin spoke to a sampling of alumni to get a view from the factory floor of how they plan to meet the challenges ahead. While the companies vary in size and make a diverse range of products, these owners, chairmen, and CEOs present a snapshot of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a... View Details