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- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
asphalt on me and getting a lot of burns that are kind of like napalm, because it'll cool on the outside but not on the inside. And so it was a very dirty job where you'd go out and you get 2,000-pound super sacks of crumb rubber, run a forklift. View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
faculty office building) and Baker Hall (now Esteves), a residence hall for Executive Education participants. Typically, he left nothing to chance. According to a 1993 article in Harvard Magazine, “Professor Uyterhoeven resurrected the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
in the planning room one day when a US Navy SEAL walked in the door, and asked me if I've heard of Operation Red Wings. So we talked for a little bit, we opened up a map, and he pointed to a place in Northeastern Afghanistan called the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
in and turn the tables on things,” Herp says with a smile during an interview at the offices of Linear Air, an air-taxi service based in Concord, Massachusetts. “Just ask my wife and kids.” As VLJs were being developed, Herp, his e-Dialog... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
officers spent 30 to 60 minutes with frontline workers involved in the processes of a particular unit. In addition, they held open communication forums related to patient safety. After generating a list of... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
Policy Officer A. G. Breitenstein. PrivaSource integrates and "scrubs" healthcare data for pharma, biotech, and healthcare companies so that it is meaningful to them scientifically. At the same time individual patients are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
shown in my office used to say you need ‘ruthless prioritization’. During business school, I learnt to focus on questions like how to prioritize my time, what matters most to me, what is important but not a priority, and to spend my time... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
point in life where they can give some time and share their considerable skills but they don't know where to go to volunteer." Last year, with the help of several professionals from Microsoft who had founded the original SVP in Seattle, Venkatesan set up the first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies —... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought him here, far from the sleek,... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Eli Lilly Canada, the Controller and Treasurer at Eli Lilly and Company and Chief Financial Officer at Cardinal Health. Lara Hodgson MBA ’98, Harvard University; BS, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Lara is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week interview:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
that support the work of teachers and learners in the classroom. "When we visit districts," reports HGSE professor and PELP faculty member Monica Higgins (PhDOB 1995), "we literally see the PELP Coherence Framework posted on the walls in the central View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
officer at CarbonCapture Inc. “The impact of the Inflation Reduction Act is enormous. I think it really hasn’t hit home yet,” says Jonas Lee (MBA 1993), chief commercial officer at CarbonCapture Inc., which... View Details