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- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Photo via Vanity Fair Photo via Vanity Fair Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent feature in Vanity Fair details... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
Harvard Business Review article “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” and then with his 1989 book, The Managerial Mystique, Zaleznik questioned a longstanding corporate paradigm. His assertion that managers are dedicated to maintaining order and efficiency— while... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
databases: ABI/Inform, OneSource, and CareerSearch. This active committee will also survey graduates to understand how they currently use the Alumni Web site. The goal is to design a personal preference software agent that would allow... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
by Dan Morrell Perhaps the biggest free agent target in major league baseball this off-season was 25-year-old Masahiro Tanaka, a pitcher in the Japanese professional league with a devastating split-finger fastball who made international... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
Collections) B[ernard] & A[lvin] Soulie Merch[an]ts Ex[change] Brokers &c 84 Bienville May 30 /[18]54 F M C [Free Men of Color], age 45 to 50. Bro[ther]s. Are agents for some large estates. loan money on p[ro]p[ert]y &c. [etc.] Are v[er]y... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Strong Bonds, New Records
Sandy Sacks and Alan Ferris, the cochairs for the MBA Class of 1966, believe that their fundraising success—currently the class holds 16 participation records—can be attributed to their time at HBS. "My HBS experience was very meaningful, and staying in touch with... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
sales/finance leader, and inspirational change agent who works at Red Hat/IBM. He was the first blind executive to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and has been featured with NBC, Forbes, the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
as well as land-use and climate-resilient infrastructure, which will require massive injections of capital in order to remain sustainable. Alumni were urged to be the change agents and ask the tough questions; now more than ever taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Agricola Aritzia, a leading Chilean poultry producer that formed a partnership with Corporación Municipal de Melipilla, a public health and education nonprofit. “When companies engage in cross-sector partnerships, they reap unsuspected benefits while becoming View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
create wealth and produce superior products and services. They must also conduct themselves as “moral actors” — responsible agents that bring moral judgment to bear on their activities. This development defies centuries of corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
skilled agents and a powerful players' association, the average player earns $1.1 million. "Because the NHL doesn't have a lucrative, full-season, North America–wide TV contract," explains Kluzak, "steep ticket prices - often beyond the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system should spend dollars on a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
India, for instance, it’s like having access to an agricultural extension agent at any time—at no cost. Most often, any given question that a farmer submits to PAD (by text or voicemail) has been raised before, so a response is pushed... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
bridge year after high school, Global Citizen Year prepares them for success in college, careers, and our global economy. "I want to awaken young people to their own potential as agents of change in the world," she explains. Today, Global... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
also offer sound investment opportunities, as do negative emissions technologies that cool the earth. “Alumni were urged to be the change agent and ask the tough questions,” she adds. “People overestimate the risk of pushing and prodding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores suspicions that Soviet secret View Details