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- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75 years, the award has been... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
if people do well, it is only right that they should help to pay for the setup that made their success possible. More to FDR's point, people who do better should pay for more of that setup. FDR's reasoning is far from obsolete; our current President seems to agree with... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Washington, DC. At the time, GOP fiscal hawks controlled the House and the Senate while the Democrats and President Barack Obama held the White House and the executive branch. Negotiations with the... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
[juvenile detention] coming toward me. I thought my worlds were about to collide. But he walked right past me. Either he didn’t see me, or he didn’t recognize me.” In addition, when US President Barack Obama... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
US economy. A hands-on leader who has met with business owners in 36 states in the two years since President Barack Obama appointed her to head the US Small Business Administration (SBA), Mills has had many... View Details
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and joint ventures in the region. In 1995, he returned to the United States to serve as president of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications. After his retirement from the Walt Disney Company, Hightower became a professor of Management at HBS. In 2009, he was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving economic growth and job creation
Karen Gordon Mills (AB 1975, MBA 1977) served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as administrator of the US Small Business Administration, which is focused on economic growth and support for small businesses. In the midst of the 2009... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
into significant growth in net income or share price. In closing, students are asked what Kindler should write in the letter to shareholders to open Pfizer's 2008 annual report. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110003-PDF-ENG The Rise of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
selling accounted for Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Advertising was critical only in a close election—George W. Bush's (HBS MBA '75) victory in 2004. There was no one-size-fits-all marketing approach that swayed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
Cunningham in 1913-14 and a year later The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States had me wondering who the first African-Americans were to earn Harvard MBAs. I... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
earlier this year, Barack Obama appointed General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’79) to head the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Historically, HBS and its alumni have played a key role in... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Nairobi." In 2010, Keshavjee was one of four representatives from Kenya to be invited by Barack Obama to Washington for the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, "to deepen ties between business leaders,... View Details
- Profile
John Oxtoby
Many young people have watched “The West Wing;” John Oxtoby is one of the few who has actually worked in it. In a political career that began with Barack Obama’s Senate race in 2004, and culminated with policy responsibilities in the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
neighborhoods, right as they’re experiencing the problem? Do it! Pre-HBS, I worked for 5 years at a company called Blue State Digital, a communications agency born out of the Howard Dean and Barack Obama... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
financial crisis, and the excessive compensation of its CEO. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309101 Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0 Harvard Business School Case 709-493 Less than a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
accountability.” “More than anything else, leadership is about accountability.” Mullen, who had already completed three four-star assignments, served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs under President George W. Bush. He continued in the role under President View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
neighborhoods, right as they’re experiencing the problem? Do it! Pre-HBS, I worked for 5 years at a company called Blue State Digital, a communications agency born out of the Howard Dean and Barack Obama... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
regulation." But timing is everything, and the collection of legislative bills that ultimately was assembled into the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, which was signed into law by President Barack View Details