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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
and have the benefit of significant life experience. They have a lot more to offer than someone off the street who gets the bug and decides to run.” A Change of Pace Beth Terrana (MBA ’83) Age: 47 Home: Wellesley, Massachusetts As a View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
conference organizer Karen A. Page (MBA '89) put it, to "tell their stories, discover they're not so different from one another, and learn some useful ideas for making their lives and careers more successful and satisfying." It was a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
as editorial director and senior vice president in charge of its publishing division. Kiechel's joint MBA/JD degree reflects, in part, a bit of "career confusion." A Phi Beta Kappa Harvard College graduate, he enrolled in Harvard Law... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
my ambitions. Also, my parents were Holocaust survivors, and we lived in Palestine until I was eight. There were constant blackouts, and we were often running for cover. On one occasion, a bullet passed behind me and grooved into the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
leadership,” said Kenneth. In Kenneth’s work in venture capital, he is seeing efforts to address this through cross-firm mentorship. Helping junior level employees find mentors with shared lived experiences is important for their future... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
online will likely worry about receiving gifts on time. Training staff to enforce rapidly changing health guidelines and diffuse tension with customers who don’t comply mask-wearing regulations will also be critical to keeping the peace (and keeping shoppers and staff... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
requiring that much software be rewritten. Over the next twenty years, Murthy spent little time at home. In 1990, he lived in France for three months, closing just one deal. His efforts paid off. Today Infosys is a serious contender in... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
so that the kids grow up to be responsible about their lives and don't become, not only a drain financially for us, but a pain in our hearts and an embarrassment socially? Those are universal concerns. One part of the work I do is getting... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
When most high school seniors were thinking about college applications and prom dates, Marla Malcolm Beck was thinking about business. Smart and athletic, Beck played volleyball and softball and she was accepted to the University of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
alumni such as President George W. Bush (MBA '75), Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (MBA '79), and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66) are well known to everyone, as is the impact of other newsmaking senior executives such as IBM's... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- Web
5.6 MBA Community Standards Annual Report | MBA
everywhere. Matthew C. Weinzierl Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research Established in 1908, Harvard Business School was the first graduate business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
programs, graduate business study has not been a natural leap. PRIMO is one way to change that." Tami Kim was a rising senior concentrating in government at Harvard College in 2011 when she participated in the inaugural session of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
heart attack and fell backwards. Both survived, but the event instigated a crisis in care. “My parents had come to help us with child care, and I found myself worrying about both child and senior care,” she says. “I was working at an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
Rodolfo A. Diaz Cabello (MBA 2021) reflects on how his experiences at Harvard Business School supported his path to building new products at Spotify. In October 2022 I joined Spotify as a Senior Product Manager leading a team that... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
women from advancing and make their work lives uncomfortable. In my experience, Damore’s assertions don’t match the reality in today’s corporate environment. Having worked with female CEOs under enormous pressure, such as General Motors’... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George