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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
Harvard Innovation Labs Students at the i-lab facilities in Batten Hall (photo by Rose Lincoln) The Harvard Innovation Labs are an ecosystem that bring entrepreneurial ventures to life. Successful ventures like RapidSOS—a startup that has raised more than $30 million... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
the four tasks of retirement, and that it is a gradual process rather than a one-time event. Amabile became a Baker Foundation Professor in 2016, went half-time in 2017, and shifted to less than half-time the following year before... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Innovator’s Dilemma, Second Edition By Charles A. O’Reilly, III and Michael L. Tushman, Baker Foundation Professor; Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and Charles B. Thornton Chair, Advanced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical models to accurately predict large-scale movements of history, sees an oncoming dark age that will last 30,000 years. To shorten that dark... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
the New Competitive Landscape," brought together some 450 participants to focus on challenges arising from the current political and economic climate. Given the prominence of Fitzhugh's legacy throughout the weekend's events, it was a particularly fitting time for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and in 1968, his entry to NASA, which early on sent him to the University of Michigan for a doctorate in radiation physics. Even as he rose through the ranks at the space agency, Earls' scientific training was an important View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
of its HIV/AIDS medicines. In addition, Merck has initiated a unique partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Republic of Botswana-where more than one-third of the population is infected with the virus-to model how the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
In 1986, Joe O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971) and his wife, Kathy, founded the Joey Fund in memory of their son, who died as a result of cystic fibrosis. O’Donnell has raised millions to battle the disease, and when asked to help the Cystic Fibrosis View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
and develop friendships with those outside your class as well." The academic program began early the next day and included presentations by W. Earl Sasser, Jr., the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management and chair of the School's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
CarterCovington Entrepreneurial Spirits: Through the Seventeen Principles of Napoleon Hill by Polycarp Emenike (OPM 38, 2009) The Napoleon Hill Foundation The Missing Something Club by Bill Haylon (MBA 1988) Terwilliger Press The Spice... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
firms, establishing the foundation for her eventual move into television and the executive suite. In 1999, feeling "the ten-year itch," Thomas-Graham talked to a longtime mentor who recommended that she meet with Jack Welch, then CEO of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
the learning team model create the foundation for building positive relationships between students. Peter Stone: I thought my HBS experience would be a lot more about learning content in classes. In the end, I’ve been surprised by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
of HBS alums who are leading personal crusades against rare diseases. Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation soon after being diagnosed with the blood cancer in 1996. Since then, MMRF has raised over... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
to change the rules of the game to get to outcomes that are good. I'll bet they'd come up with lots of great ideas. They would go out into the field and grapple with these difficult questions, and it would give them a solid foundation for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
catastrophic flood destroy his house, leaving his family, including five kids, homeless. Yet Richard didn’t want a bailout. He told no one at work. HFE already had a foundation in place to help employees in such need, but Richard hadn’t... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Karavites’s store underwent—the reshaping of the experience, the modernizing—that’s the fun part of the turnaround, Kempczinski says. The less-fun stuff had to come first, though: foundational things, like paring back some of the... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
a code of ethics and contribute to the betterment of society. The authors demonstrate that this is much harder to achieve than unicorn status. The authors show how these stories are less about building a get-rich-quick organization and more about triggering View Details