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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 80. While a partner at McKinsey, Pearson was recruited by PepsiCo to be its COO, and soon became its president as well, serving the company for fifteen years. During his tenure, PepsiCo’s revenues... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
By all accounts, September 11, 2001, was the worst day in the history of the airline industry. But that didn’t stop Jim Whitehurst (MBA ’94), then a partner at The Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta, from joining Delta Airlines that day... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
McFarlan, Thomas Piper, Richard Vietor, and Michael Watkins. They are joined by several members of the Wits faculty. "I was deeply impressed and moved by the participants'... View Details
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
A note to the 73 incoming MBAs moving into newly renovated Gallatin Hall: You are some lucky ducks. I tagged along on a tour of Gallatin led by principal architect Steve Erwin and project architect Patricia DeLauri, both of Shepley... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
With a long tradition of sponsoring nonprofit community leaders to attend Executive Education programs, the HBS Club of Buffalo viewed the Managing Healthcare Delivery program (MHCD) as an ideal means of expanding that impact to the region’s health-care systems. In an... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
I came to HBS with an interest in social impact but without any specific career convictions. Over the past year, the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) has been especially influential in guiding my career choices. Most tangibly, SEI helped me find my summer internship... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Richard W. Beatty (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business Press) Many companies spend too much time and... View Details
- Web
Full Circles | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Full Circles A native of San Francisco, Landon Dickey (MBA 2013) has come home. Currently serving as Special Assistant for African American Achievement and Leadership, Dickey is working in the San Francisco Unified School District alongside Superintendent View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
implications of the VCR - one of the "most powerful" innovations in the industry. Biondi was joined by a panel that included Richard J. Bressler, CFO, Time Warner Inc.; Bruce Paisner, president, Hearst... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
government has run it as a for-profit corporation, increasing safety and decreasing costs along the way. Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It by Richard S.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
she will help launch a new Business in Global Society (BiGS) Institute. BiGS will serve as a hub and provide support for research in this arena, and ensure that the faculty’s work can have maximum impact and reach the widest possible audience. Here are five examples of... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Photos by Richard Bolger Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) crossed the world many times in three decades as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, an international distributor of... View Details
- Web
Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
repeatedly use and reference proved another effective way to keep a product’s name in the mind of the consumer. Business cards, postcards, holiday greeting cards, and books of songs, recipes, or medical advice, all created for “gratuitous distribution” View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
(Above: photo by Rick Pryce) Bill Tai (MBA 1987) is as renowned for his devotion to kiteboarding as for his savvy investments. Ten years ago, the “Kite VC,” as he is known in Silicon Valley, married his two passions with the debut of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
open up new possibilities within and between groups. Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business by Anthony K. Tjan (MBA 1998), Richard J. Harrington, and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
access to basic sanitation.” This stark reality demonstrates an urgent need for action in order to make meaningful progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 of reaching universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the View Details