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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69) credits much of her business confidence and acumen to her years at Harvard Business School, where she was the first black woman to receive an MBA. But those two years, exhilarating and educational as they may have been, were not... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
different ends of the career spectrum with a shared belief in their powerlessness" These companies have created new business opportunities by identifying societal problems that align with—or become part... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
They also developed a learning experience, titled "Innovation Magic", that builds on their insights and backgrounds as teacher, researcher, and performer. The experience starts with magic performances by Randal and ends with a two-hour... View Details
- Profile
Scott Wu
and the venture capital community; and on the flip side of my life, I’ve applied them when working on global poverty and inner-city education situations. HBS really showed me how to apply those skills to some of the biggest problems... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
while witnessing the end of the studio system, the development of indepen-dent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywood’s most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
innovation management breakdown, premature core abandonment, and talent shortfall. The book includes methods for articulating and monitoring strategic assumptions and ends with a self-test built around fifty signs of an impending growth... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
for low- and moderate-income housing to be built and renovated throughout Cambridge and Boston. "The housing crisis is reaching well into the middle class," declared Paul Grogan, Harvard's vice president for government, community, and public affairs. "The View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
Jeffrey Madrick (MBA '71) has for many years been an award-winning economics and financial writer and editor in both print (Business Week, Money) and broadcast (NBC, ESPN) journalism. The author of, most recently, The End of Affluence... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
Initially aiming to recruit 1-2 summer interns to support me in my endeavor, I ended up hiring an amazing and diverse team of six interns who are as excited about the idea as I am. Given my background in mechanical engineering, I was... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
veterans to also think strategically about careers, goals, and desired end states before determining what path they must take to get there. The Harvard JD/MBA program is a versatile and immensely beneficial professional development... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
the science of productivity. During spring reunions this year, Duhigg spoke to alumni about his next potential project: understanding the science of a meaningful life. Essentially, how can we live lives that are not just happy but truly... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
problems for learning and for change." Jensen believes this tendency is the source of most so-called people problems in organizations. Jensen's model defines two regimes of behavior: the Resourceful,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
Rising. Elise Clarkson: You’ve had a broad career, ranging from Yale to McKinsey to the City of Boston. Can you tell me about how you ended up as the Director of Social Entrepreneurship for the Harvard i-Lab? Did you always want to work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
their skills, and move them up the skill and pay ladders,” says Eckert, with robots replacing only the bottom rungs. “You’re not finding 21-year-olds coming out of school and wanting to go into manufacturing. In China, there is actually a declining population of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in... View Details
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
begins and ends with me... Social Enterprise Scale-Ups: Creating Ripples of Global Good Randy Haykin 14 Dec 2017 For the past five years, I’ve been developing an approach to scaling of social enterprises that I... Simple Lessons, Shared... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
end is knowledge. As he puts it, "to gain more knowledge, we will have to think more." In his view, information is no substitute for thinking and knowledge. Nor, in the opinion of Suresh Annappindi, has new technology... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
neighbors. Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything by Charles Conn (MBA 1990) and Robert McLean Wiley Complex problem solving is a critical skill, and necessary to keep up with... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details