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- 01 Apr 2000
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learning is encouraged but are uncertain how to make it a reality. "How do I, as a manager, get started?" Garvin posits. "What tools and techniques must I master? What do I need to do personally to lead the learning process? And how will... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
environmentalist. He and I spent a lot of time together discussing the larger environmental challenges of our time. He was a big thinker. He was very encouraging and supportive of my desire to shift my career more in the direction of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
been good, but at a time when the virtues of free enterprise are rightfully being questioned, there is encouraging evidence that HBS graduates are using their leadership skills — both in the public spotlight and behind the scenes — to put... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
technology to become available for laboratory use. He calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
To help keep the dinners interesting and encourage alumni of differing backgrounds and experiences to connect, Gupta says each dinner is open to guests according to age groups, with one seat per age group. Building Bridges dinner, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
small, 35-person Workplace Gender Equality Agency not only as a resource for business, but also as an advocate for societal change. Its current initiatives include a toolkit for companies that want to perform a gender-pay-gap audit and a campaign to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development of the airline industry over the last 30 years has been based on deregulating... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with encouragement from faculty mentors, pursued his growing interests in markets and investment. During his tenure at the School he has served as chair of the Finance unit and taken on a number of key administrative roles, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
civic groups, she also used this research process to encourage existing community organizations to build closer relationships with locally based businesses. Kanter held forums to help each city develop an "action agenda" where business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
create an inclusive environment where the world's best talent can thrive and be inspired to do their best work in support of the School's mission. Integration—Pursuing opportunities to encourage and support research and curriculum... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
the School’s Global Research Centers in helping faculty work on cases and find research opportunities. The LSP builds contacts, compiles databases, organizes seminars, and encourages and supports case writing across units to raise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
heartfelt stories to inspire and encourage you. Faculty Books Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life By Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press Four out of five... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Neighborhood Revival, former HBS senior lecturer Paul S. Grogan, who also served as Harvard's vice president for Government, Community, and Public Affairs, and coauthor Tony Proscio point to four encouraging trends that give cause for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
then one day in 2008, Stata contacted Giler to encourage him to check out this wireless-electricity startup he had invested in. "It's a good case for networking," Giler says. He returned to the campus a couple of years ago to discuss a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneur, and two other cofounders, Keshavjee launched Honey Care Africa (HCA)—with Jiwa as director—to encourage beekeeping as an opportunity to enhance farmers' incomes. "From its inception, HCA has had an explicit triple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
to be in show business, so at Columbia at least I was in the right theater, if not the right row. Then came my big break: a benevolent Lampoon friend of mine who worked for David Letterman called to say that his show needed writers and View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
got a lot of encouraging feedback from institutions, especially the pension funds—CalPERS, for example. Huge. But they want to invest in much larger funds. And so getting to that point of creating a $250 million or $500 million... Then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details