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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About
part of what makes us who we are could ever be irrelevant. Harvard must always be a place of opportunity, a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed, a place where many will have the chance to live dreams... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
job as similar to that of a curator. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it, but you also can't look at these products like they were clear product. You have to create an aura around them," he explains. "I'm... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
change,” he says. “So changes in behavior were driven mostly by changing beliefs or changing expectations of the job seekers.” Using cash to weather a talent drought So, what’s a job seeker with dreams of working for a startup to do?... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
them to open up and share their authentic selves, life stories, crucibles, and their hopes and dreams enable them to flourish and grow as leaders by feeling fully accepted. The real danger of labeling people by their external... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
the top of an organization? Is it the best argument yet for the idea of diversity, broadly defined, in organizations? Or is it a utopian dream forged in the laboratory by organization theorists in support of the mantra of decentralized... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a longing for 'being there.'"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 10 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Working with Professors at HBS
mailed me a copy of the case to frame. I think faculty members are extremely important to our education and development, so much so that my one-on-one chats with Anita, Henry, and Mukti Khaire were some of my favorite educational experiences at HBS. I loved sharing... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
search for adventure. These places gave a flavor of that.” There were more corporate transfers (to fresh vegetables, then fresh fruit) until 1983, when he landed what he saw as his dream role as Castle & Cooke’s international controller... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
remained in New Jersey, where she, too, worked for IBM. Once Parker (known by his nickname “T”) graduated, Alita enrolled at HBS, graduating in 1992, while he headed to New York City for a dream job with Morgan Stanley. Landing an... View Details
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football League team, his View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
at Harvard Business School. Nicholas Howson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, focused his comments on developments in China. Corporate investment in China used to be long-term and brand-focused, he said, with an MNC View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS
doubt my dream school. Nevertheless, when the moment came to apply to B-school, I did not feel ready. I was finding excuses to postpone the application like: “I am on an intense project with very limited time to craft my application.” ... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
and went to school for engineering,” he says. “Then I got a job, got married, and had kids. There was no time for flying.” With his aviator dreams grounded, Hamilton pursued another passion: designing and building things. A Seattle... View Details
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech Leader Turned Healer
feared feeling judged by her classmates back on campus, Zhalisa instead felt admired by her peers, even those who she’d assumed were happier and more successful than she. Soon after, Zhalisa decided to return to work and to fulfill her View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an expert on leadership and organizations. "For most of the industrial age, we expected large employers to provide essential benefits, including healthcare after retirement. That meant we didn't have to face much public... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
consumers. Webvan was perhaps unrealistically imagined to be such a channel. The difference between Dell and Proctor & Gamble is that Dell can supply all your computing needs, but Proctor & Gamble can never aspire to supplying all your home provisioning needs.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
says the experience allowed him to help people who were motivated to help themselves. “It was exactly the mission I wanted,” he reflects. In the aftermath of 9/11, Kennealey decided in the spring of 2002 to put his career as an educator on hold to pursue a... View Details