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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue, it is hard to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
imagined and caused me to engage in work that (I hope) has been useful to others. Even disastrous moments in our lives, it seems, can be an opportunity for rebirth. Douglas Schofield is on the management committee and is head of the... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
outreach program that will significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced last September. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
classic trading system of exchange is identified with David Ricardo, the early nineteenth-century economist who first analytically clarified it. Imagine that tribe A is good at both hunting and fishing, but more efficient at hunting.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
power plant are quite strong. Coming back to innovation, what's striking about chemicals is the role of small, independent engineering firms in transmitting innovation across the industry. So there's an interesting model here: Could we View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
on people like you to do this vital work. This work will take imagination and innovation. As much change as I have had the good fortune to witness this last decade at HBS and in the world beyond, the next decade will require us to be yet... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
hard to keep the bank competitive. Himself a father of three (whom he insists will not enter the family business), Banthoon imagines that if his father is watching over him, he is likely to feel proud. McIntosh One Heart at a Time Susan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
world was so different then — no cell phones, software, biotech, or espresso. It’s sure to change as much for today’s graduates, with opportunities to create products and services not yet imagined. When I graduated I took a job consulting in New York City to hone my... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
been created with HBS Online, and whether that applies to the MBA program or Executive Education and the ability for different groups to access our materials, is going to be a tremendous opportunity. I can imagine us playing a more... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
date that people are frustrated that they simply can't solve with existing technology. It's hard for me to even predict those things. I like to say when we created the Palm, we never imagined Uber. And so, we don't know what they all will... View Details
- Profile
Maria Brewer
made me realize I wanted to understand business from a more holistic perspective. I also wanted to explore potential opportunities in an entrepreneurial environment, especially in countries that I had not worked in before. While these were my original intentions, I... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
death in 2019. “I tell my kids about their grandpa and I say, you can’t imagine how hard he worked for everything he had,” says Bishop. In creating value for his clients, Waite also created a better life for his greatest legacy, his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
says he has found "the perfect job." "I'm basically a big kid," explains the jovial executive as he demonstrates the latest push-me-pull-you gadgets that fill his office located several stories above the Fifth Avenue landmark. But it's more than the opportunity to let... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
as good or bad outlooks you're born with but as mindsets to adopt as situations demand." When testing strategic plans, deploy defensive pessimism, imagining all the things that can go wrong in the future. But when the task requires... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
found myself imagining what a section mate might think about a certain topic or looking back through my notes to remember some framework. As the summer approached an end, I was eager to see everyone on campus and get back to class again.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
School, has shaped Friedlander’s time at HBS and he’s enjoyed meeting members of the donor family and expressing his appreciation for their support. (photo by Susan Young) “Because of this assistance, I can imagine myself doing something... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
to locomotives. “No matter what the product, for over 130 years GE has been about imagination at work,” says Immelt. “It’s always been a combination of the dreaming and the doing.” Immelt came to GE straight out of HBS, holding various... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
mayonnaise, a container of mustard, cold cuts, processed cheese spread (I'm from Philly, and we love Whiz), and pickles. Now imagine finding sawdust in the pickles, sand in the mustard, and so on. That quite literally was the situation in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
enterprise one day. I might start an NGO. I might start a nonprofit. I might start a company that’s focused on increasing social welfare.” That’s not by accident—it is in part a function of the creativity and the work of the SEI founders, and it has led to the creation... View Details