Board Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

failure in the startup and tech ecosystems. I think the HBS community is particularly well-suited to be a problem-solver here. We have so many leaders in VC, startups, and entrepreneurship. Our alumni network literally runs the largest... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

in the retirement of EARTH University’s distinguished president José Zaglul, who had led the university since its founding in 1989. Condo was familiar with the school and its emphasis on agricultural sciences, but when a board member... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

organizer and HBSAB board member Radha Bennett (MBA 2014), adding that only about 2 percent of VC funding goes to women founders. That doesn’t mean they won’t find VCs to back them, just that they might have to pitch their ideas to many... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade of the new century."... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

energy transition, while another session with Lauren Faber O’Connor, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of LA Mayor’s Office explored urbanization and the future of the grid. In between sessions, the Club encouraged networking in a... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

than in satellites. Approximately half of all satellites launched today are CubeSats—shoebox-sized satellites that can be made for $50,000-$200,000 and launched for $30,000-$500,000 on board a scheduled flight that has extra cargo space.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

are added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

College. She is a member of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly . Lakshmi Ramarajan Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C.... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

day when board members sit around the table and simply wonder how we can dig ourselves out of the hole we’re in.” On balance, the firm excels at solving even the toughest problems, as evidenced by its track record as a top-tier firm. As... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

manage a vast external network of client employees and an equally vast internal network of the firm's employees. The GEP needs to have a deep understanding of the client and its industry in order to identify... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Feb 2014
News

Stick with Plan A

and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

develop data-driven strategies. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

classes since mid-March 2020, with the exception of 10th and 12th grades, which reopened in January for students preparing for board (school leaving) exams. There are 250 million K–12 students and 10 million teachers who have been... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Rewane was awarded a full scholarship to HBS, sponsored by the SevenUp Bottling Company. She found the HBS curriculum and the student, faculty, and alumni networks equally empowering. In Professor Clayton Christensen’s course Building and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

believe I had the skills to turn around a troubled technology company," says the Long Island native, who had worked at McKinsey and American Express before becoming chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco. "Over time, the IBM board members... View Details

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

with a discussion of practices that CSOs argue to accelerate the commitment of organizations to sustainability. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-011.pdf The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented View Details