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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
University of Iowa, and his mother taught at a small college in nearby Des Moines. In 1941, Christensen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, where he met Dorothy Smith, his lifelong inspiration and future wife, who would... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
lessons learned at a company to the classroom. The best leaders and teachers listen deeply, communicate empathically, and motivate adroitly. Command-and-control leaders and strict, punishment-wielding teachers are stereotypes of the past.... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
happened to be going to Alabama to visit a friend. And she was carrying some drugs. She was carrying like a bag of heroin. And she got caught. Thrown in jail in Alabama prison. And she was sentenced to nine hundred and ninety nine years without parole. And meanwhile,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Apr 2021
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The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
roles do each of you fill within the organization? MGA: “My official title is Secretary and Treasurer, but we are small enough to remain flexible and fill whatever role is needed at the time. Austin still jumps in to teach me how to be... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
black person I have ever held a conversation with.” TED LEWIS grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied architecture and sociology, Lewis joined the Peace Corps, working for two years with a local housing... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
“The government was not prepared to handle a fraction of that number,” says Bhargava, who is president of the Washington, DC–based consulting company Bankworld. “Things got out of control.” Police opened fire, killing three of the young... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
thrown in the deep end,” he recalls, of owning his first business. “I did everything: marketing, making sales, coordinating shipments, supervising, installation of the ceilings.” In 1963, Diamond bought out his two partners, and later, merged with another View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
conclusion that investing in Detroit is like investing in an emerging economy without political and currency risk.” Cummings has formed a new company to manage his Detroit projects: The Platform. The name has many meanings for him. A... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Rojie Kisten (GMP 5, 2008), Cape Town, South Africa NN: When I first came to Harvard Business School in the 1980s, excluding the first-year BGIE [Business, Government, and the International Economy] course, there were virtually no global cases and only a View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
real-world experience after college and landed at an animal feed company in Arizona. When the company’s leaders were removed due to fraud, Kendall found himself in charge. “I ended up seeing an organization go through a bankruptcy and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
programming, so you have to give me your attention. The reality is that you don’t have to give me your attention anymore. I have to earn it. What makes CP+B different? We don’t think of ourselves as an advertising agency in the typical sense. CP+B is a View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy officer at an insurtech View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Entrepreneurship is nothing new at HBS. The first course in entrepreneurship was taught over fifty years ago, and the list of alumni who have founded profoundly influential companies — from Continental Cablevision to Staples to Bloomberg... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
past that are relevant for today’s discussion about which direction we want to take the country.” Titan operated only in Greece for its first 90 years, says Papalexopoulos. Both his grandfather and his great-grandfather, who founded the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry