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- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
training and fortitude in a hostile environment. And only ten percent of those who make it to Denali’s summit are women. “It’s much like tech!” Kostova says. And it proved a ready-made metaphor for the next phase of her career. In 2020, Kostova founded CareerClimb, an... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
others. That was her north star,” says the Harvard College graduate and former McKinsey consultant. Palandjian’s embodiment of her forebearers’ values is a theme in all aspects of her life, including her leadership of Social Finance, a thriving nonprofit that View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
life in a manner that says that nothing gets done unless I’m on top of it and pinning it down. And so this process and this transformation, for me, has allowed me to stay very present. I still set really, really high goals for our team... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
of economic development that lifts all boats isn’t quite happening—yet. The next wave of change that needs to take place in Chattanooga isn’t as straightforward as cleaning up the city’s air or developing... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
Business School. Our family's gift is a sincere expression of this respect and of our gratitude." The Spangler Center Groundbreaking for the Spangler Center, which is being designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, will take place next winter. Current plans, which have... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
suppliers of ancillary home construction products, like cement, paint, and other home fittings. Would this create a unique one-stop shop for construction-related goods, or take Tata Steel further away from its core mission? Dilemmas such as this are at the heart of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
level," notes Ebrahim. "It doesn't disappear into other government agencies. The reasoning is that you can't achieve results without an accountable, locally embedded authority directly championed by the country's executive leadership. In the case of Ghana, it's called... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
leaders—who volunteer their time and talent to build and sustain this strong alumni network. There are so many different types and sizes of clubs and varieties of programming. One goal will be to streamline and share best practices across... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with three partners, he View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
Health Care Initiative Advisory Board. “Our goal is to make the health care delivery system more efficient and effective,” he adds. “We want to help HBS extend its impact in the field.” View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
model has developed, it has grown beyond financial incentives. The ultimate goal is to foster a stronger relationship between the workforce and management by investing in the employees. That includes providing employees with financial... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
moves quickly and correctly makes it immediately clear just how much conditioning and practice is required to reach a basic level of fight readiness. For most, of course, the combination of discipline, fitness, and focus that martial arts View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
2010 Leadership Fellows
Segneri, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; Tamara Heimur, Millennium Challenge Corporation; and Lindsey Henken, Hospital for Special Surgery. Not pictured: Jean-Claude Homawoo, Endeavor. —To learn more about this year’s Fellows, read the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030.... View Details