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- 01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
(once a characteristic of living things only, right?) in its answer. It assessed the situation, took a calculated risk, and bet just enough to win. Game, set, and match—$53,601 to $42,399—to the still-undefeated Wired One. (Dollars are just a figure of speech here; no... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
need. This is often the biggest weakness in entrepreneurship. Many people, especially tech people, lead with a solution in search of a problem. I also often see entrepreneurs leap from the see stage to the scale stage. They layer lots of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he adapted to the restless spirit of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
team.” You know? Will they still follow?" And I had a conversation with one of our directors, Shelly Lazarus. She basically said, "Look. You're the best person to lead the company out of this. Right? You can't look back. There's other... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day were joined by another emotion - the determination of New Yorkers to see their city back on its feet again. In this metropolitan area that is home to more HBS graduates than any other, the School’s alumni have played a leading role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
EVENTUALLY GO OUT OF BUSINESS? For 20 years these changes were hugely successful; but beginning in 1958, it all began to unravel. Given human nature, it may be inevitable: Success in one era leads to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
a small one. See hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7271.html. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World by Joseph L. Badaracco (Harvard Business Review Press) Leading responsibly is crucial in today's uncertain world. Badaracco,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In Memoriam: Hugo Uyterhoeven
renovation of a number of campus buildings. “I worked at Hugo’s side for over 50 years,” McArthur recalls. “During my years as Dean, he was one of just a handful of our colleagues who carried the greatest weight in leading and View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Kennedy School of Government as well as a dozen other leading universities from across the country. The program was built around six sessions, each focusing on a central theme of importance in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
marketplace on people's lives. The authors believe there are deep differences of worldview and language that need to be addressed before church and business professionals can truly communicate on this problem. "The church could be one of the strongest resources we have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
international business. Professor Ghemawat and his coeditors have collected articles by leading scholars that focus on five topics in international business: creating value through international expansion, sources of value in global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
appointment with Harvard’s Kennedy School, where she founded the Social Innovation and Change Initiative. Here, they look back at the growing legacy of the SEI and the work still ahead. What are some of the effects from the first 25 years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or recovers species. A subsidiary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
bakery cranks out cookies—New York now holds a demonstrable lead over Silicon Valley in terms of fintech investment in the United States. According to CB Insights, a New York startup that uses algorithms to collect and analyze data on... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the University of St. Thomas business school in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso