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- 01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Major Career Transitions by Michael D. Watkins (PhDDS ’92) (Harvard Business Press) Although leaders get their toughest tests in career transitions, far too often they fail to move effectively into new... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
cluster concept pioneered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (Renewal Leave) at HBS, Mills argues that organizing a region’s small and large businesses around specialized... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis
Almost two years ago, HBS professor Michael Y. Yoshino embarked on a study in Southeast Asia. Little did he know the twists and turns the region - and his research - would take. With Southeast Asia's economy booming, Yoshino, an expert in... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
directed his giving to support the Business and Environment Initiative. He is enthusiastic about “integrated reporting”, developed by HBS Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles, combining an organization’s financial and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
"mainstream" organizational culture. But Meyerson argues that these "everyday leaders" can act as crucial sources of new ideas, alternative perspectives, and organizational learning and change. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
content each and every month,” says Puz. This fall, the VRT series will include Michael Watkins, professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD, giving a talk titled “Making the Most of Your First 90 Days,” based on his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Sky Lucas (MBA 1983) and Jeff Hamer (Amazon Digital Services) The authors, two stock-market veterans, share their hard-won wisdom through entertaining and insightful tales about the cruel world of stocks, money management, and irrational... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Managing Director, Alumni Relations, facilitated “Alumni Dialogues,” a participant-led session where members propose and engage with each other on topics of interest spanning professional and personal lives. The Board also experienced a “Sprint” led View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
together to produce “leaders who make a difference not just in the world but for the world.” Leadership Takes Center Stage Just how to make a difference dominated the leadership discussion that opened the summit on Monday. The topic was taken up View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
readers to use ingredients more effectively, experiment with temperature and texture, excite the nose and palate, and balance all elements of an extraordinary meal. Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
leadership was taken up later in the day by Professor Michael Porter. "Inequality is probably the single biggest problem facing America," he stated in a talk titled "Inner-City Renewal." Noting that the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Getting Smart About Philanthropy
Seven HBS alumni are among more than 50 philanthropic leaders who share their strategic thinking, insights, and wisdom in a unique set of video interviews being showcased on the new GiveSmart.org website. The "Conversations with Remarkable Givers" series was created... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
which fired Condo’s imagination. He was also excited by the concepts in HBS professor Michael Porter’s watershed 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “My decision to study at Harvard was inspired... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna