Execution Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
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Endless Possibilities

offers five choices, with 70 percent choosing monogamy (other options include “ethical non-monogamy” and “open to exploring”). “Tinder won’t tell you who to date or how to date,” says Iosotaluno, a longtime consumer tech executive who was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted

big institutions. Sadun: To have a functional team I expect that all executives will need social skills to work together. Even outside the realm of business: Think about teams... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

news you can use to bring yourself and your business up to speed in the year ahead. Fundraising Forecast: Continued Clouds, Some Sun It isn’t news that the fundraising climate has cooled considerably in the past year. But as a startup advisor, angel investor, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Washington, DC. At the time, GOP fiscal hawks controlled the House and the Senate while the Democrats and President Barack Obama held the White House and the executive branch. Negotiations with the Republican Senate officially stalled in... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jan 2024
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Match Game

When the Bulletin included Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) in its December issue, the longtime consumer tech executive was COO of Tinder. On January 9, the company announced Iosotaluno would become Tinder CEO. “It’s hard to overstate the... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

service at prom time. At Harvard College, where he starred in both football and baseball, he organized team meals and other activities at the Varsity Club. And at Harvard Business School, he started a housing agency to help entering... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

successful,” says one Miami YALPer. Improving education for the city’s poorest populations could change that equation—but the ballot measure to fund the schools didn’t pass by a long shot. What went wrong? A participant from Minneapolis–St. Paul comments on the number... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Executive Vice... View Details

23 May 2024
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HBS After October 7

questions to the panel based on the themes expressed in the more than 300 questions participants had submitted in advance. The conversation featured updates and insights from Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

1974 Named Executive Director, Unibanco 1983 Launches Banco Pactual S.A. 1998 Launches JGP Asset Management 2001 Joins HBS Board of Dean's Advisors 2002 Jakurski House opens, British School 2002 Named Chair, HBS Latin America Advisory... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

crowded classroom, including a Harvard graduate student and former high-school teacher who was the course’s head teaching fellow last year; a historian who has coauthored some of the course’s 24 new cases; and a member of the Executive... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

present opportunities, and I believe we need our brothers and sisters in the diaspora to help us address these challenges,” says Nwuneli. Following the webinar, the HBSAAA team says feedback from attendees was extremely positive.... View Details