Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

knowledge in the form of articles, speeches, and research projects and books,” says Bradach. Even now, despite the economic turndown, demand for these services remains robust as organizations struggle to do more with less. “In the second... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2011
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Four-Letter Word

to a calling — what can I do to help?” Miller said. “I always wanted to go into public service,” which he did, after writing a letter to Treasury Secretary and fellow Goldman alum Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). One Treasury project Miller has... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2009
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Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow

As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he honed his design... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2003
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Spreading the Words

income from national syndication of their daily word puzzle called Rootonym.) Even as they invest more time in developing the Web site, the Cooks wouldn’t think of charging users an access fee. They told Gentry Magazine (October 2003) that the pleasure they derive from... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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When being a good neighbor means economic development

projects in America, Mission Rock will be developed on land owned by the Port of San Francisco. Team officials plan to break ground in 2015. In addition to construction jobs, the project is expected to... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers

Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance

in Calgary on a project for Hyatt in the dead of February, eating a bison burger, and I hadn’t been home in months,” she recalls. “I thought, you know, I probably should start looking.” That moment of clarity led to a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; public education; leadership; charter schools; career paths; work-life balance; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Jul 2024
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On Balance

Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

the School in creating a truly magnificent educational facility." Beverly Hawes expressed the family's enthusiasm for the project and the hope that the students who will be educated in Hawes Hall will use the knowledge that they gain "to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
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Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation

lead donor and passionate supporter of the Montana Legacy Project deal that purchased over 310,000 acres of forest land from the Plum Creek Timber Company in the western part of the state. The Wyss Foundation’s initial gift of $25 million... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

networks, and support the local community. “I decided to participate in the project to help our community of entrepreneurs,” says War Room mentor Jasper Camacho (MBA 2006), who was able to share his experience in sustainability. “I work... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

working on an independent project with NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony, an investor in Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund. “Chris Lyons, who oversees the fund, told me, ‘The number of people who understand how to work with talent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

day’s press reports. I have internal meetings with my staff and then, externally, with various American interests, other embassies, Moroccan ministries, and so on. About 20 percent of my time is spent in the field visiting local Moroccan officials and U.S. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to produce a Volkswagen competitor (a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work collectively. Because the View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the founding, rise, and eventual closure of Holte Capital., a... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2018
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Averting Crisis

Project (BFFS), conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to use data to predict—and maybe prevent—future financial crises. A database of financial stability and investor sentiment measures is published in real time on the BFFS... View Details

07 Aug 2018
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DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

becomes one of the only black women to have raised that much cash in private funding. According to Project Diane, just 34 black women have raised over $1 million in venture dollars. Last year, Woolley-Wilson spoke to the New York Times... View Details

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