Mission - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust embraced the importance of... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

distinctive mission and to put in place the processes that will allow us to recognize and implement valuable new technology and then use it to develop powerful new applications as quickly as possible." "As we thought about what we wanted... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

continue executing the School's mission successfully: "We have been committed for more than seventy years," he said, "to a model of education in which we bring the world into the classroom - we immerse our students in the context of... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

institution," Knutson says of the label that has brought to public attention little-known groups such as Burning Spear and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, as well as the better-known George Thorogood and the Destroyers and J.D. Crowe and the New South. "The founders... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

describes the personal nature of the work and the effort to bring more of a sustainability lens to investments in the AUC's endowment. "Education changed the course of my life—it's something my mother fought dearly for, and my mission is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

York City to his time as an internationally touring opera singer, his business launch during the Great Recession, and ultimately to his position as founder and CEO of Aria, a real estate company with a mission to humanize the experience... View Details

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

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites by Martin L. Abbott... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

suppose, attract that new wave of talent that you're seeing? JI: Yeah. Look. I think in two ways you've got to sell the mission harder. You know? And, and I think that's where big companies still have great strengths. Is that scale can... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

you will find all the usual enthusiasm that you’d expect in a growing economy,” he says. “But there are also a number of people who believe we have an incredible mission to create a positive change in India. I have a sense of a much... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

there’s something very intoxicating about the feeling of, ‘Oh, this whole thing is something that I’m creating.’ That’s really a reason to wake up in the morning and also something that’s terrifying on a level that I hadn’t appreciated before.” She can lean on the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit organization whose View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

company’s director of marketing and is now brand manager for a large, national product line. He’s interested in either starting or acquiring his own company when the opportunity presents itself; the family company will provide the capital for that strategy. That’s it.... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

active church members and had traveled to missions in the West Indies. The couple are survived by six children: David, Hamilton, and Royster Peterson; and Jennifer, Grace, and Catherine Price. Peterson is also survived by two brothers,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

he had with these doyens, in an easy-to-read, anecdotal form. Converting the Saints: A Study of Religious Rivalry in America by Charles Randall Paul (MBA 1972) Greg Kofford Books Inc. In this study of religious conflict in the US, the author focuses on the early... View Details

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