Runs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

aspirations, purpose, and values, so that they work together as an aligned team." Dan Vasella finds that the skills he called upon as a practicing physician are equally useful in running one of the world's largest pharmaceutical... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

01 Jun 2012
News

Jump-Start

using the Lean Startup methodology, for the 19 cash awards given out this year. There were also 12 venture capital firms (listed below) that stepped up to help fund the program run by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. All the... View Details

Keywords: contests; Finance

18 Mar 2008
News

Election ’08, HBS Style

council with representatives pulled from the many student clubs and regular “office” hours in the Spangler Grille. Jyoti Agarwal, running with Fred Smith, talked about working across university constituencies to effect change, from... View Details

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

28 May 2021
News

Unspent Love

of paper origami fish to swim across the ceiling of the family dining room, Kingston writes. “My mother, who put her business degree to use running a small nutritional beverage company with my father in Santa Rosa, Calif., while raising... View Details

02 Dec 2018
News

An Emphasis on Teamwork

investor, you absolutely need to be versed in more than just finance,” elaborates Krebs, now running a family office in San Francisco. “You need to understand leadership. That’s where the HBS general management curriculum really resonated... View Details

07 Apr 2017
News

Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires

is sliced in two by a dual carriageway that is the main route into the city centre from the north. “It’s madness, you cannot have a neighbourhood with a motorway running right through,” he says. He whips out his smartphone to use Google... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

25 Aug 2016
News

Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

do—how well cities are run will affect the future of the planet in profound ways.” Within the next four years, as many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral aides will participate in the initiative’s executive training programs. This... View Details

Keywords: Government

07 Jan 2016
News

Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

on the bandwagon, because the type of financing we have, and the kind of impact it has, is on local jobs; it’s on the local environment, so it really is gaining popularity. “The work I do now is running a company, which is actually pretty... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

These Walls Can Talk

(Javier Larrea/Getty Images) Today: Most smart homes connect basic electronic devices such as lights, locks, smoke detectors, security cameras, and thermostats. Tomorrow: Homes will be fully outfitted with smart appliances, which can make efficiency decisions such as... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Nov 2019
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Scranton Elects First Female Mayor

As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily,... View Details

Keywords: politics; leadership; women; career paths; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

strong community. As our base of instructors continues to grow, we are starting to see the network effect of BollyX gaining more brand awareness." What's it like to wear two very different hats at BollyX? (Minal runs BollyX and also is... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2001
News

Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being run... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

18 Oct 2024
News

My Worst Job

And so you'd wake up at four in the morning and come down and get a propane tank and a torch, light it, and let the fire run on the valves to melt the asphalt so that you could actually turn the valve and start the morning. So I start... View Details

04 May 2018
News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

shares in those horses, making ownership much more accessible. As an investment manager, Finley’s got a strong track record, with four of his horses making it to the Kentucky Derby, including a win by Always Dreaming in 2017 and a run... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

27 Mar 2023
News

A Sporting Chance

actually was in Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls. "I slipped. I had climbed to the top of a tall wall, and I just plummeted and hit my head." Perez de Leza was 25 at the time, a native of Madrid taking an extended summer vacation... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2012
News

Letters to the Editor

risk? Just because you would gladly pay a higher capital gains rate doesn’t mean others would. Brian W. Keane (MBA 1986) Potomac, MD Both Sides Now LaMagna has fallen into the trap set by those who believe “fairness” runs only in one... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

their careers and their future goals—personal, professional, and societal. “One of the things we talked about a lot in that forum was running toward the thing that hurts your heart the most,” Verdi recalls. For Verdi and his wife, Gina,... View Details