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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
than none at all. “When you set high expectations for voters, you’ve got to make sure you deliver on them. If you want democracy to work well, you need both the winners and the losers to be on board and accept the results.” “The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa,”... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
be noted that these green fruits are born from the entrepreneurial seeds sown over the years by HBS faculty, such as Howard Stevenson, Lynn Bollinger, and Georges Doriot, to name a few who influenced so many. I am personally grateful to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
evangelist to the arts”; archived since Aug. 2006) MBA 1977H Geoff Hibner, Laid Off and Looking, http://blogs.wsj.com/laidoff/ a collective WSJ blog written by 8 people. MBA 1978D Richard Edelman 6 A.M.,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Technology. Jaikumar earned numerous honors, including the Frederick Winslow Taylor Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Grosvenor Plowman Prize, awarded by the National Council for Physical Distribution... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Moving Day 2012
Sandberg Photos by Russ Campbell (Commencement); Neal Hamberg (Class Day) As Dean Nitin Nohria told the audience on Baker Lawn on May 23, this year’s Class Day was an occasion for both celebration and mourning. Just days earlier, Nathan... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
HBS students worked on their project with representatives of the bakery chain Benjamin in São Paulo. (photo by Cintia Farago) In the United States, brand loyalty is often a powerful motivator—consumers will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Stannard-Friel, Alice Lin, Jessica Schmidt, Nicola Leahy, Alla Jezmir, and Tiffany Singleton; (second row) Aaron Rudenstine, Marlene Ngoyi, Rosita Najmi, and Karibu Nyaggah; (third row) Kaveesh Nath, Mark Angelo, Andrew Van Pelt, and Andrew Feinberg; (back row) Brian... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
every sector and every community,” says Goldman. While LEDA has been successful finding and developing leaders, the nonprofit is also still relatively young. Launched in 2003 by Gary Simons, founder of New York City’s highly regarded Prep... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
AWARD WINNERS: Benjamin Fenton (MBA '00), Iris Chen (MBA/JD '01), and Marc Sternberg (MBA '00) at the HBS Club of Greater New York's annual Leadership Dinner. Recognizing the many accomplishments of senior business executives has always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
INK-STAINED ORACLE: Buffett's Media General bid focused on small-town papers. AP Photo/Nati Harnik by Deborah Blagg In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
At New Leaders, Benjamin Fenton (AB 1996, MBA 2000) directs strategy for the only national organization focused on developing exceptional school leaders for high-need district and charter schools. Between 2000 and 2013, the organization... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
have our first customers and revenue by early fall, when we plan to start actively raising our first round of financing.” Family support: Michelle “My entire family is supportive. My sister came to the final presentation. Her son, who is... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
HBS senior lecturer David Edelman exploring "The Future of AI and the Customer Experience." Upcoming discussions in the series include "The Future of Leadership in the Digital Era," "ChatGPT and the Future of AI," and "The Future of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
SVMP a High-Energy Success
SVMP chair Ben Esty, flanked by two participants. Classroom discussions, with an overall theme of international business, were exercises in engagement and learning for Jabulani Barber and Victoria Beatty. photos View Details
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
was, already researched and summarized in a booklet published by the Bert King Foundation in 2008 called Making a Difference: Profiles of the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Alumni Achievement Award Recipients. To quote from the booklet:... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman