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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
how little definitive research there has been on a topic that has such widespread economic impact. I hope the book will begin to fill that gap. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
current board members (nearly 10 percent of the directors of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are 70 or older), Stautberg and Chin believe there will be many opportunities for Harvard MBAs to make a difference through board service in the next few years. “If you haven’t... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after Diamond, then in the midst of a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Growing up in Sharon, Massachusetts, Andrew W. Kendall (MBA 1988) developed a natural affinity for the outdoors from family trips to the beach and from hiking, snowshoeing, and camping in New England's mountains and forests. It wasn't until the Amherst graduate went to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
or in a cubicle on Wall Street, seeing how elements of the status quo actually inhibit desired outcomes — and breaking with those elements — is the real value-added of diversity in the workplace. —Deborah Blagg View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix it, the city rolled out in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
Among the 31 works in "Second Show," a recent exhibit of Wib Walling's paintings, one in particular seems to reflect the disparate paths that have brought the artist to this juncture in his life. Titled Self-Portrait, the work is a mixed-media composition of seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the first woman to become a tenured... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and Chicago. Height is not the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai HBS Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) was working as a technology and innovation advisor in the San José mayor’s office in the fall of 2017 when he began thinking about the plight of families forced from... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
think that can happen, and with more executives from HBS and elsewhere pushing for social enterprise opportunities within their for-profit careers, I believe it will happen. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a demanding and exciting career path,"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Photos courtesy of Baker Library Archives Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell appointed Wallace Brett Donham the Dean of Harvard Business School a century ago in October. The School’s longest-serving dean, Donham led HBS for... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a successful venture in a related... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of homelessness, he hadn’t thought... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
The online bio of EARTH University’s new president Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) describes him as “Ecuadorian by birth, Latin American by heart.” Condo, a distinguished scholar and author, and the former president of INCAE, followed both his heart and a lifelong passion for... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting firm last year, the veteran retail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
nationalist tendencies that would emerge after the breakup would be uniformly detrimental to Western interests. Abdelal’s research draws instructive lessons from the fact that neither of these scenarios materialized and suggests that policymakers need to take a closer... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) attributes his love of architecture to weekend outings with his father. “I grew up in Nassau County, Long Island, where there was a master craftsman named José Allegue who built distinctive single-family houses,” he explains. “On Sundays, my... View Details