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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
like the ones her former teammates had experienced, she needed to understand the problems. In 2016, she quit her accounting job and moved to Bolivia to work as a teacher for A Ganar, a youth-workforce-development program that uses soccer and other View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
team and, you know, how to wash dishes, all skills I carry with me today. At spring reunions, we asked the alumni to share stories of their worst experiences in the working world. And this episode includes all sorts of life-altering... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
the first days, and we had 1,600 people sheltered there the first night." Gokgoz and his team organized to get emergency supplies, food, blankets and other essentials. They provided communications support as well as financial and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
fact, this was now an open door. They needed us. We were in working with them. There was a wonderful team that was selected by the government to work in sanitation and the partnerships that we formed therein were just invaluable. We were... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
remained optimistic about the future, carving a path for himself and others despite the obstacles and racism all around him. He was the leader of leaders. His legacy fuels my work. —Deborah Blagg Back to top Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
country riven by tribal factions and lacking roads, electricity, and a well-functioning government—required the mindset of a manager who half-jokingly refers to himself as a “lovable dictator.” Khoja below a billboard on Bibi Mahru Hill,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
knowledge of how to get the product out there. Distributing refrigerated products is not an easy business. People could probably come pretty close to copying our re-cipes, but to actually do the marketing and distribution, manage shelf... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
began to meet the officials and advisers who were attached to my first ministry, and I discovered the varying qualities of those people. Before I went back to Iraq, I spent a lot of time reading about the occupations of Germany and Japan so that I could compare and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right people to help your venture fly? If you get your team right, the idea will come. And the money will follow." Bhide, who for the past eight years has been studying five hundred mid-level entrepreneurial businesses around the country,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives By Brian Elliot (MBA 2008), Sheela Subramanian (MBA 2011), and Helen Kupp (MBA 2015) Wiley The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
of innovative plan.” Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and the host of an HBS conference last summer that examined Massachusetts’s health-care reforms, says hordes of curious officials from across the country have come to see... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Dumbarton Oaks energy conference inspired by Energy Future. COURTESY ROBERT STOBAUGH An eighteen-year veteran of the energy and petrochemical industries who had left business to enter Harvard as a doctoral student in international business at the ripe old age of 37,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core leadership are Greg Shell (MBA... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
stroke; a solo parent to two sons, 11 and 14 years old, she takes a very centered, practical approach to managing her time. Depelsha Thomas McGruder: I would say my top three tips for living a balanced life. Well, one thing I said very... View Details