Managing up - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

leading Bay Area companies. It also offered plenty of opportunities for alumni to network, compare notes, and catch up with friends and classmates. As Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine - the first Harvard president to attend... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

16 Jan 2018
News

Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

Photo courtesy of HBSASNE Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Southeastern New England (HBSASNE) recently held its first-ever reunion of the local nonprofit leaders it has sent to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2025
News

Crucible: Relocation

no longer manage my anxiety by stacking up wealth or titles, but instead celebrate an active life in nature, my creative and intellectual pursuits, and relationships. In addition to sharing personal stories,... View Details

Keywords: Zhang, Qian

01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present

Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) Sangu Delle always intended to support the educational institutions he attended, including Harvard College, HBS, and Harvard Law School, but he was planning to wait to give back until he’d achieved a certain level of success. However, one night... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

Careers in writing and business were foreshadowed early for T. A. (Tom) Barron (MBA '80). When he was nine years old, growing up in Harvard, Massachusetts, he produced a humor magazine, The Idiot's Odyssey, which he peddled to the public... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

conditions of the distribution of capital on nonprofit management and organizational performance. He will also investigate how the availability of capital at various stages of an organization's evolution affects its growth. Jed Emerson... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

diagnosis -- a "road map" or "operating guide" for breast cancer patients. While Just Get Me Through This! includes medical information from her coauthor, Dr. Robert M. Gelfand, its primary intent is to help women manage the day-to-day... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

College, is also committed to public service. Re- cently she put her career on hold for six months to help make a difference in the lives of hundreds of South African children. She left her job as managing director at Abt Associates,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

that many of you have already signed up for what promises to be another stellar event, like the previous conferences in Berlin, Cape Town, Chicago, and Hong Kong. Buenos Aires is the site for the conference in 2002, and I'm proud to... View Details

Keywords: conferences; committees; leadership; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

spend two months in eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and then six months in Argentina. In 1994, Brooks took a break from her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University for a fellowship with Africare, on the Ivory Coast. There, she helped View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

There is something in the human soul that yearns to get away from it all, to some unspoiled paradise by the sea, lulled by gentle breezes. And those dreams of golden days and starlit nights translate into a startling, cold-cash reality: Tourism generates View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

and T-shirts. Going against the corporate norm is nothing new for Scher, who shunned the usual perks and salary an HBS graduate typically commands in favor of the glamourless, risky, and low-paying job of starting up a company that wasn't... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

to lymphoma and later as a practicing physician in his native Switzerland. Both his years in medicine and the business career that followed have focused on helping people. So when researchers at Novartis came up with a drug that promised... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

An Authentic Leader

communities where they serve. It sounds old-fashioned, and yet it’s almost revolutionary. What set the stage for recent business scandals? Greed took over. It started with the junk bonds and the corporate raiders of the late 1980s. This put a lot of pressure on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton, Massachusetts. “At 19, I helped... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course

framework around which to figure out whether they’re making the right decisions. We’ve also reorganized into three lines of business: aviation, maritime, and the Tobin Bridge (linking the city to its northern suburbs). General managers... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

resources and the management of technology, while a Deutsche Bank case covers universal banking. "We wanted to develop a framework for students that would help them understand the rest of their HBS experience," says Koehn, a prize-winning... View Details