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- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
speakers in the program, very often, have no networks and little resources. Yet they see a problem and say ‘I’m going to fix that.’ And they’ve done it with amazing results There’s no better role model.” For the panel, Hunger and Food... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
The role of business in improving public education, reducing welfare dependency, and revitalizing urban areas was the subject of a stimulating forum held at HBS on April 6-8. The conference, titled "Business Leadership in the Social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
that the future is now for American manufacturing innovation. In a wide-ranging Q&A with Associate Editor Julia Hanna, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney (MBA ’75) says that innovation is the country’s “most sustainable competitive advantage.” And... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
When the airlines sought government financial help in the wake of September's terrorist attacks, Delta Airlines chairman and CEO Leo Mullin (MBA '67) emerged as a powerful advocate for the industry, the Los Angeles Times (September 21,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
gender pay gap for 25 years,” notes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in CEO roles has increased steadily; but, at the current pace, it will take 80 years to achieve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
young dreamers might not otherwise consider—including their personal lives. Early in the course, the professor essentially plays a foil to the blindly enthusiastic entrepreneur by taking on the role of a concerned spouse: "Look at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
romantic relationships. Using a sample of romantic dyads, we identify a novel moderating role of mutual agreement, such that both members of a couple must agree that they have a ritual: different couples can see the same consumption... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Leading the way in sustainable style
Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976), the chairman and CEO of garment-manufacturing giant The Esquel Group, doesn’t spend much time talking about apparel anymore. Instead, she’s focused on improving the livelihood of the company’s 47,000 employees... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
and CEO of KiraGen Bio, a biotech company that utilizes machine learning-driven multiplex gene editing to engineer CAR-T cells that can resist the immunosuppressive effects of solid tumor microenvironments. With extensive experience in... View Details
- Profile
Laura Sandoval
In the late ‘80s, Laura Sandoval’s mother emigrated from Peru to the United States to find a better a future. “We faced some tough immigration challenges,” Laura says. When her father later joined her mother in the US, she said, “My father went from being the View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
Climate Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. Large and growing numbers of business leaders acknowledge, behind closed doors—and some doors... View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
he became the CEO of Second Harvest Heartland. Zeaske’s experience mirrors those of alumni fellows who have benefited over the years from access to meaningful roles and close collaboration with senior... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 05 May 2011
- News
Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck
Morgan: Sees great potential in the nation’s diehard conservative audience. Betsy Morgan (MBA ’95) set media-world tongues wagging when talk-show host Glenn Beck announced in early January that he had hired the former Huffington Post CEO... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
representing pharma, energy, and investment discussed their responses, and those of other corporations, and the critical roles that partnerships and collaboration with US and other non-Ukrainian companies can play in supporting their... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
(MBA 2020), Director of Network Intelligence at Volta Charging "When I started my search for a job in the climate space, I was worried that my criteria were too narrow and there wouldn't be many interesting roles for someone with my... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Capital, and Corey Thomas (MBA 2002), chairman and CEO of Rapid7. 2020 OCTOBER 20 In their new book A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) and Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) address Black... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Courtesy Pentagram Graphic designers have created some of the world’s best-known logos, from Coke to Mercedes to McDonald’s. Yet their role in establishing a company’s identity is not always understood or valued by senior management. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna