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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
their careers in nonprofits. We all have to work harder to eliminate these barriers. The nonprofit sector presents an outstanding opportunity for talented managers and consultants to put their skills to work for a wide range of worthy... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
hope. So last December, speaking in a crowded, harshly lit room typical of government offices the world over, Cognetti put herself forward as one of 10 candidates to vie for a seat on the Scranton School Board. As part of her personal... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
from mistakes we learned a long time ago not to make. Why would we now repeat the mistake of banking on a nuclear option that simply makes no economic sense? Michael Hogan (MBA ’88) Sunapee, NH Priorities Trump Prescriptions Your December... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
they were thinking about and gave me the option of what I wanted to work on,” Westphal explained. “The project I chose enabled me to spend 90 percent of my time working with Diego on financial analysis and modeling. I also helped assemble... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
pursue new careers. “That mission is also the most challenging. The goal of higher education should be nothing less than to provide people with a better life. Students put a lot of faith in us to deliver on that promise; they quit their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
venture and the founding team, putting that early split into disarray and imperiling the team. Splitting equity early can be valuable in maintaining team stability when a venture is just launching, but devising a static split doesn’t... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
exacerbated by the workplace flexibility of the COVID era has put increasing demands on businesses to offer or expand benefits that support family schedules. In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Stephen Kramer (MBA... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
plus. In terms of the modern framing of it, there’s a golden book that I love, by the author of the Black Swan. It’s called Antifragile. And if you think about the usual way that we go and deal with these setbacks in life, it’s fragile. Essentially, we View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
unanimity” emerged, says Garvin, namely, that bridging the knowing-doing gap at HBS means supplementing the curriculum in three areas: globalization, experiential learning, and leadership development. But how? “That’s the big question,” says Datar. “To View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
who could speak to a particular process in more detail than even a case could. To Sonia’s point, getting that contextual knowledge firsthand from my peers has been awesome. The people here are a different kind of smart, where they pick apart things and View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
understanding of the attitude needed to manage entrepreneurially - a commitment to continuous improvement, a belief in the importance of creativity and innovation, a belief in the possibility of many options for success, and a sense of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical device company marketed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration levels by analyzing their sweat.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those predawn hours. For the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
to tell a couple of people what I was going through. But more than anything, it was just putting one foot in front of the other. It was extremely difficult, but I think I just thought, what other choice would I have? I certainly didn't... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the... View Details