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Arjun Goyal
pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni investment group, and have high hopes for the annual New Venture Competition. “On a commercial level,” Arjun explains, “Foresight is innovative in the way it applies new technology to treatment View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
returned home to Nigeria for a year of National Youth Service, a program designed to engage young people in the development of the country. During her year in Nigeria, Kuyoro considered her next steps and recognized an important theme for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
designated that the fellowship be used to support a student “with a particular focus on professional or volunteer work that has benefited underprivileged or deserving children.” Aliya Shariff (HBS ’06) was a fitting choice for the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
hone their leadership, teamwork, and design thinking skills to prepare for their Brazil immersion. The process informed the goal: to help their partner company attract more young families to the bakery chain... View Details
- 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 18 Oct 2016
- HBS Alumni Events
Alumnae Circles Open House: San Francisco
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Course Number 1350 Baker Foundation Professor Robert Simons Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper This course is designed as a capstone for graduating MBA... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
thousands of years to compute. More important, the quantum revolution would give us the ability to solve a whole class of problems that digital computers could never touch. In the quest to help us get there, Aliro offers two tools, both in beta for now. The first,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
first-year Required Curriculum. It aims to bridge the gap between learning and doing through team-based leadership development, global experiences, and integrated thinking activities. FIELD coursework will take place inside classrooms... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
by democratic institutions as they implement their demand management programs or dictate the design of whole new cities to meet energy targets. Yet, even with all of China's "advantages," the EIA/IEA reports tell us the same story. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
articulating the desired ‘way we intend to operate,’ but even this is best done to explain ‘why’ we are making process, design and/or strategic changes.” Others refused to think in terms of one primary... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
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Mardie Oakes
soul, but the experience prepared me well for my next step. Creating fabulous places where diverse neighbors can coexist is the foundation of the work I'm now doing. Six months ago, I started a nonprofit that is bringing together real estate financing tools and View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
problem the product or service should be designed to solve. For example, when Walt Disney was plotting out Disneyland in the late 1940s, he didn't concern himself at first with typical amusement park issues like how many rides to build,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
previously been employed, was now the director of the newly-formed Airbel Innovation Center, an internal team focused on bringing human centered design and innovation to the humanitarian space. With the help of Harvard’s Summer Fellows... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
simple products like the Hippo Roller (a device used to carry drinking water) and insecticidal nets, realizing their potential to significantly improve communities. This revelation shaped my guiding principle: to use design and... View Details