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- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with everybody,” he recalls. “The... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to California, first to build a risk View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
2:00 that afternoon, closed, worked all night to make more food, and sold out again the next day.” The business grew 8 percent each month for the first fifteen months. For a while, Garner served as chief pasta maker, accountant, and general business View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
life. There are only 24 hours in a day. So work to improve your time management skills every chance you get. List and prioritize what’s important to you in terms of family, career, and other parameters. Use... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
As we begin the new academic year, I welcome the opportunity to share the exciting initiatives and activities under way at Harvard Business School. All our efforts are designed to pursue with excellence the School’s mission: to educate leaders who make a difference in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
explore a wide range of contemporary business issues and top management concerns. Beyond that, the program was aimed at giving these leaders the opportunity to reap the benefits of spending time with other top-level women executives. In a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
the New England power industry, where he played a key role in building a start-up company into a $300 million energy marketing enterprise. Seeds of Success When he rejoined Outward Bound full time at Thompson Island in 2005, Pearson stepped into a situation that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential. After a decade of experimentation in education and global development, I enrolled at HBS to develop the skills and strategy to bring Global Citizen Year to life. Winning the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these initiatives... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
retraining and enabling people to adjust their skills as the jobs adjust. Today, there's an incredible shortage of computer programmers. Well, those people who were the elevator operators are not prepared to be computer programmers 'cause... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
remained optimistic about the future, carving a path for himself and others despite the obstacles and racism all around him. He was the leader of leaders. His legacy fuels my work. —Deborah Blagg Back to top Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
help get us—whether as a school district, county, state, country—where we need to be.” At Treasury, Cognetti staffed meetings between high-level officials and European foreign ministers. Coming into HBS, she wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. But the case method honed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
extraordinarily demanding group of fellow students and faculty. Developing the skills to listen carefully, think analytically, and communicate clearly is a requirement of leadership." CHARLES WAITE University of Connecticut, 1957 B.S.,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging directly with the team, to help... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
not luck. It’s the ability to recognize opportunity. Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ I was ready.” Indeed, he was. Summoning his HBS skills and McKinsey experience, Rogers quickly went about rounding up the $1... View Details