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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
Fortunes, and Fidelity”—will be a major demonstration of his commitment to service and leadership on a global stage. He calls the summit the ultimate business development, info-gathering, and networking opportunity for US service academy... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
contribute a lot.” Since then, he’s proved that thesis correct—several times over—in positions at the New York Public Library, at America Achieves, and currently as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a global... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
People Watching
Moore: a success story worth of People. Photo courtesy Time, Inc. In 1991, Ann Moore (MBA '78) saw an opportunity where others saw no chance — building a national magazine out of people's interest in celebrities and human-interest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
create a more diverse and inclusive environment. That’s what we’re doing with Project Include. Through our program, a CEO can talk with peers and see data on their startup’s diversity and sentiment levels.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing content and more about managing... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
was probably a pretty likable guy and much like his characters — funny, tenacious, and creative. And that’s the way he really is.” Hood is now completing her third year as CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
create the conditions that allow everyone else in an organization to realize their own potential and power. When done well, as the authors explain in the following excerpt, leadership is about creating an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
on their smartphone within the last month. That trend is fostering a next generation of entrepreneurs developing new revenue models that aren’t built around the traditional program formats, a shift that writers and producers are taking full advantage of by View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 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... 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
and so on. My pivot from the business world to journalism happened in 2016, when a friend who was working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign called. At the time, I was CEO of an education startup, but I’d spent 14 years building... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
ever offered me a normal job. Obviously, it would be much nicer to be the chairman or CEO of a high-performing business that floats gently upward. I do what I do because the river carries you in a certain direction.” And there’s an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
Carroll (MBA 1989) as CEO of global mining giant Anglo American. Both cases center on her decisions around the temporary shutdown of mines in South Africa, one of many steps the company would take under her leadership to prevent worker... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
continued as a doctoral student at HBS, where he challenged GE CEO Jack Welch in front of uncomfortable first-year MBA students about GE’s investments that, according to Massie, supported South African apartheid. Massie has never been shy... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
most effective boards are those at companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days... View Details