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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
during its virtual annual meeting on June 21. More than 700 HBSWANY members were invited to nominate a Rising Star from among the membership, which yielded 37 initial nominees, according to organizer Carmen Li (MBA 2016), HBSWANY board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
Justine Smyth (PMD 77, 2002) remembers a time when no one in New Zealand talked about breast cancer. It was 1980, and her mother, just 45 years old, had been diagnosed. Her mother underwent a mastectomy and survived, but “we weren’t allowed to tell anyone,” Smyth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
ideologues seeking to point fingers, assign blame, and make reckless changes to the system. One US senator recently unveiled the Accountable Capitalism Act, which requires corporations of a certain size to procure a federal charter that... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
mission. And as I was walking out of the door my dad looked up and said, son, when you finish firing my manager I expect you to replace him with your manager. And yours better be as good as mine. So as I was on the way back to take care... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
organization dedicated to improving educational access, quality, and outcomes for children from underprivileged backgrounds. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the foundation launched a crowdfunding campaign that has raised... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
were battening down the hatches and assessing where we were from a cash perspective, trying to get a sense of what the baseline was going to feel like. Then we started to get very creative and scrappy about taking care of people yet still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
trip was a treat and they really valued the visit. It was very gratifying.” HBS Club of France Honors Self-Made Entrepreneurs The HBS Club of France, in partnership with the global accounting firm, Mazars, celebrated outstanding French... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop paying office rent — upwards of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
organizer and HBSAB board member Radha Bennett (MBA 2014), adding that only about 2 percent of VC funding goes to women founders. That doesn’t mean they won’t find VCs to back them, just that they might have to pitch their ideas to many... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Leading People debuted in July 2020, and Leading Learning will launch in July 2021. The program was inspired by findings from an HBS alumni survey indicating that alumni care deeply about public education. The survey inspired HBS senior... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
reforms.” Breed told the group her goal is to protect the public and the police. “She said growing up in public housing helped prepare her for these times, and she’s very hopeful for the future,” says Adams. “She believes that people genuinely View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
ability to care about other people and treat them well. Plenty of people are smart enough to chart a new course and know a good business strategy from a bad one. We can’t forget that the authenticity and credibility of leaders is more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
special connection: They have both been fellows in Harvard Business School’s Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO), a 10-week summer program for Harvard undergraduates that matches students with HBS faculty members to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter choices about the businesses they start." Entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
entrepreneurial in my role, and that I am given the latitude to form partnerships that will benefit our organization and the cities we work in. “I work with some of the largest and most innovative companies in America. My team resides in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
purpose can propel an organization’s accounting and stock market performance. According to a recent working paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Serafeim and Claudine Madras Gartenberg (MBA 2006, DBA 2011), the finding upends... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details