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- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
and then came to HBS, where he graduated with distinction. Horn thrived as Perenchio’s business associate and eventually was asked—by producer Lear—to oversee the creative side of the business. Initially met with skepticism by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
reasons why HBS decided to take a leadership role in organizing and implementing EDP. "The program has energetic CEO support in the person of Jim Wolfensohn, a focus on top-rank managers, and a global orientation," he explains. "It... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
basic accounting that is coming in handy at the moment. She points out that, in addition to handling advance payments, dealing with the challenges of raising capital, scouting locations, and building clientele will all draw from her CORe... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
completely attainable, healthy self-image in leaders who are excited and driven to take up the challenge of developing a more authentic leadership style. Faculty Books Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust by Ray... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Management Leadership for Tomorrow, says the initiative touches on all aspects of the mission of the HBSLAA, by “empowering capable alumni to serve in this valuable capacity, connecting recent and more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change together. Hosted by the HBS... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16 teachers would be furloughed in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
want to advance myself at the expense of other people. "It hasn't been easy," continues Feeley, whose most recent startup is the Sino-American Development Corporation, which he helped launch in 1993 to foster closer relations between U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
free to initiate their own changes. An employee at one of our Seattle hotels said, “I just noticed that they’re delivering all these phone books on a huge palette. Do we need those?” No, we don’t. You save a lot of trees if you eliminate... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience initiative for college students on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching, public service, and the law, Pozen has also written six books and maintained rewarding relationships with his wife and their two children. In a widely read Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
connect with Ukrainian local community to help me with identifying students who may be interested and qualify for advanced curriculum and potentially distant learning or other means to advance their studies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
lost a third of their retirement funds. Saving is on everyone’s minds these days. It’s one of the factors that spurred people to come into our stores in Texas, where we initially had some difficulties when we entered the market in 2003.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
are an entrepreneur who is selling ideas that have been tested through rigorous research,” says Akinola, who teaches the first-year MBA course on leadership development. “To me, it’s just as stressful as being in a corporation, but the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
to the next level. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at HBS, and Norton (DBA '73), president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc., found that the diverse companies that used the balanced scorecard... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of that experience: The View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
at the bottom of the pyramid so it makes good business sense — not a sense of do-gooding — to go after it.” Today, market forces, private-sector know-how, and grassroots initiatives such as microfinance are all being looked to as tools to... View Details