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- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
equipped to solve the problem. It has spurred “Commonwealth Connect,” utilized in more than 40 communities statewide and has become a model for citizen engagement around the world. “The innovation Chris has injected into City Hall in his View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
they think I'm incompetent or because they think I'm a jerk?" And I went, "Which is worse? I don't want to be either." Surely, those are not my two choices. So I spent a lot of time throughout the rest of my career wrestling with this and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Non-fiction The Most Important Things I Know: 55 Handwritten Ideas from People Who Changed the World by Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) Lorne Adrain A best-of collection drawn from Adrain’s previous books, this edition contains notes from Buzz... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
intranet. Clark outlined what he sees as the four aspects of leadership: strong values and high standards, a global perspective, an entrepreneurial spirit, and literacy in information technology. "We teach with the express purpose of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
work from home. I learned the benefit of meeting people where they are.” Let’s get real: “One day I said to the office manager, ‘You know, we have to get more women in here. If I had a heart attack in the ladies’ room it would be three weeks before anyone found me.’”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
great career to be an entrepreneur. It's something you do out of necessity if you haven't gotten a job in the other sectors. And that needs to change as a way to continue attracting the best talent, the best... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
years later, he’s still at Accel and can lay claim to one of the most storied careers in the venture industry: 25 companies that have completed IPOs or successful mergers; directorships with Wal-Mart Stores, Marvel Entertainment, and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
ratings boost and launching a career that has seen a variety of radio gigs, including on Sirius, and many appearances on national television (such as Larry King Live and Nightline) and in print media (including Playboy, Glamour, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Robert Sullivan (MBA ’61). “Levitt made me a convert. He taught that marketing is the guts of any business, that it’s critical to understanding the connection between sales, manufacturing, finance, human resources, and interpersonal relationships.” “Ted Levitt View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
secondary leukemia caused by myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes few healthy blood cells. The doctors changed the woman’s therapy plan, and her health improved considerably. She was discharged from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
better future beckoned. But then as I entered the border town of Safwan, which is a few miles into Iraq from Kuwait, it became clear that this was not the country that I had left. It had changed in ways that were incredible. Safwan seemed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens and a book on the topic in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
embarked on a career as a successful venture capitalist. Then, in 1980, the role of entrepreneurship at HBS changed dramatically with the appointment of Dean John H. McArthur. In one of his first acts as... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
leaders of nonprofit institutions that was established under the Initiative's auspices in the fall of 1994. "SOS-KDI is a $400 million organization with a brilliant formula that has helped them expand internationally to serve more than 100,000 children," Rangan... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
students at the most prestigious schools now shunned traditional management careers altogether in favor of fields like consulting and investment banking. Faculty at the elite business schools were thus educating fewer future managers,... View Details