Military - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

recognize these essential characteristics, Schumpeter concludes, “does a meaningless job.” In using the term “business strategy” which he did not coin but did popularize and likening corporate initiatives to military behavior, Schumpeter... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

Affairs department, Offensend says. “Eighty-five percent of veterans are male, a third of women veterans have experienced military sexual trauma and so, guess what, they’re not inclined to trust a male-oriented, male-dominated... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

government. Those four measures are completely doable over a 25-year period. Excluding the military, the three major expenditures of the government are education; health care; and retirement security, meaning Social Security and federal, state, and View Details

Keywords: Government

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

the world that will exist at that time. The navy is clear eyed about the challenges climate change poses. It knows that the effects of a warmer world will expand the geographic scope of its mission and increase demand for its military and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

10 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

portrait project series organized by the PRIDE club. Visit our Instagram @hbsadmissions for more information and fun facts about the LGBTQ+ community here at HBS. Ronnie Wimberley - Class of 2021 In almost every one of the 11 schools I enrolled in growing up as a View Details

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

arrive at Harvard Business School directly from their military service, which in recent years has often included tours of Iraq or Afghanistan. We have more than 50 of these students graduating today. They talk about honoring their country... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

doors, the meeting was a bit looser than standard protocol dictated. “So, Rogers, what are you going to do after this deployment?” asked the general. “You know, sir, I think I’m going to take a different job.” Rogers’s route to the View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 May 2022
Blog Post

Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout sniper, Pashto linguist, and deployed to Afghanistan where he... View Details

07 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

to spending a decade in the military as a Navy SEAL being deployed globally. A lot of the places we deploy are centered on shipping lanes, oil, or energy reserves. When I left the military, I was very interested in how you can create... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Career Coach

Rebecca Emerick

Rebecca is a Corporate Relations Director in the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) office. She has worked in CPD since 2008 and serves as the consulting industry lead for the office. In addition, she manages the recruiting operations team responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

the Birth of a New Network by Shane Greenstein (Princeton University Press) In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

James McNerney Jr.

2005, McNerney assumed his current role at Chicago-based Boeing. With just over $68 billion in annual revenues and more than 157,000 employees, Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company, manufacturing and supporting commercial airplanes, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

Alumni Books Boeing Metamorphosis: Launching the 737 and 747, 1965–1969 by John Fredrickson and John Andrew (MBA 1959) Schiffer Military History Welcome to the world of corporate decision-making, workplace gambles, and myriad human... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

military conflict known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, which took place in Kenya throughout the 1950s, at the end of British colonial rule. The study revealed how the British government had secretly detained and tortured hundreds of thousands... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

significant military support—of US Special Operations Forces. Spring: Bouncing Back from Rejection By Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) Westland “Spring: a twisted piece of metal that can be pushed, pressed or pulled but which always... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

Xu’s Twitter handle is @xrayunicorn) “I worked in consulting before medical school and had to travel a lot. One time a colleague and I were stranded in a snowstorm and had to rebook our flights. On the phone with the travel agent, my colleague spelled out my last name... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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