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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
began operation as a school without walls. Nine "at-risk" high school students - some of whom had been referred by theirschool guidance counselors, others who found Shackleton on their own - set forth in two specially equipped vans on a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
with executives in transition: the tendency to assume that “everyone is just like me.” “You are not the person in the next office,” he emphasizes. “Most of us imagine that other people share our values and are motivated by the same forces... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
issues, and basic survival needs. You need to be able to show people how preserving the environment can help them economically. For example, we created a buffer zone around a national forest by establishing an "extractive reserve." We... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
initiative's rapid progress has been aided greatly by the strength of the technology groundwork that has been established at the School over the past few decades. "This is not something brand new," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to graduating MBAs who work for a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
array of challenges: HBS courses were taught in classrooms scattered across Harvard Yard; faculty and student ranks had been severely depleted by the Great War; finances were precarious; and the curriculum—focused on industry-specific... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
possibility, but between her junior and senior undergraduate years, a summer internship with UNICEF in the West African country of Benin and a visit with relatives in Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria put that plan on hold. “It was, by far, my... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
senior vice president at Symantec by day, and by night—well, at least seven or eight nights a year—a no-holds-barred guitarist, vocalist, and emcee for a band that donates its earnings to local schools. The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Oh, I discovered many things. For example, I learned that refrigerating coffee beans makes them lose their flavor, so I’ve stopped doing that. And now, I wash my hands for the length of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice through, as recommended View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
connections, confidence, and cognition that individuals acquire or cultivate by virtue of working at a company during a particular period of time. It’s organization-specific as well as time-specific. Do all organizations leave an imprint?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
back to analyze why. Consider the validity of the feedback. Opinions are often subjective, but if you are getting the same advice from more than one source, take it to heart. By taking the lead in soliciting feedback, employees gain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
In early April, nearly ninety HBS faculty members came together for a half-day symposium on “Strategy, Values, and Governance in the Rise and Fall of Enron.” Organized by the School's Division of Research and moderated View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
and author of The New Job Security, says that over-50 managers can vanquish negative stereotypes by seizing control of the career-transition process. “Midcareer MBAs, especially those who have been at the same company for a while, can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
cautioned Davis. “Don’t isolate career decisions from other factors in your life.” During a job transition, she said, “It’s wise to put all your cards on the table.” Should I take this job offer? Radtke said he answers this question by... View Details