Military - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single day.” In service: “The View Details

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

surprised Cooper most was how much he picked up from his classmates. “As a military officer, I had a very different background from someone who had worked, say, at Procter and Gamble,” he says. “We learned from each other, and that helped... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

that appear to have never been debated. That includes ‘nation-building’ or what would happen after we passed through major military operations.” Despite his eventual, lonely opposition (now hailed as courageous by many observers) to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military and... 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

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 by their... 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

13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance

turmoil of a military dictatorship, hyperinflation, and a guerrilla war that killed 70,000 Peruvians. Then, with the country stable, she faced a pressing issue and turned to HBS for help. Accepted into the Owner/President Management (OPM)... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Career Coach

Connie Walsh

Connie (Kellogg '94) works with students and alumni who have had a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. Connie has 20+ years of business experience at Fortune 100 companies as well as healthcare, start-up and NFP organizations. She headed up marketing and was a... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology

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

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

the market contexts. For instance, in Chile, a military coup in the early 1970s led to the establishment of a right-wing government, and that government's liberal economic policies led to a vibrant capital market in the country. But... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

ranked 23rd in the world in 2014, besting the likes of Israel and Austria, according to the consulting group Hamilton Place Strategies. It’s not just independent hackers. It’s state-sponsored hackers who put on military uniforms and head... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

media that seemed to come out of nowhere. As Carroll put it in his opening presentation, Facebook had “put military grade PSYOP [psychological operations] weapons in the hands of anyone.” Abuses of digital technology are tearing at... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

CEOs to military officers to presidential candidates, Mukunda says. Read an excerpt from the book "Are individual leaders truly responsible for the end result, or do they just happen to be there, for better or worse?" Mukunda asks. "We... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

Profile

Marcela Sapone

worldview. Her maternal grandparents, both intellectuals, fled Argentina in a military coup. Her mother, born in Argentina, went to high school in New Jersey and eventually met Sapone’s father there. Married with a young family, the... View Details

08 Aug 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

with people and communities, “and pass on what I had learned during a career and life that had been filled with wonderful experiences.” Taking on new adventures certainly is not new for Gower, who, prior to his time at Cobham, spent 14 years in the Royal Australian Air... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“That was what I wanted for a career.” Shilla’s ambitions have deep roots within her family. Her mother grew up under a military dictatorship in South Korea, where she was “an activist under great peril.” Her father grew up in the deep... View Details

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