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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
how to become one of the winning companies: how to attack competitors’ lock-ins, make their success formulas obsolete, and create the space needed to invent formulas for success. He shows how disrupting your company is critical to reaping... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
him. They still run the company, and they also manage a household that includes their three children. Execution Is Critical Entrepreneurship is difficult even when the idea is great, the teams are complementary, and conditions seem ideal.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
employees. “It is an honor to be Harvard Business School’s first Social Entrepreneurship Fellow,” Scharpf says. “These resources will help SHE succeed during this critical phase of our pilot rollout.” The Social Enterprise Fellowship will... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA 2010) CEO, enVerid Systems Every year, the world adds 51 billion tons of greenhouse... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
First of all, from the from the business perspective, again, our vision is to be where the world goes for seafood now and for generations. To be true, we have to take great care of the oceans and in fact, so we have to do the right thing.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
reforms.” Breed told the group her goal is to protect the public and the police. “She said growing up in public housing helped prepare her for these times, and she’s very hopeful for the future,” says Adams. “She believes that people genuinely View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
thought you all cared about me." Now I realized that I have failed Bob in six really important ways. I have failed, first of all, to solicit feedback. I've failed to solicit both praise and criticism from... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Leading People debuted in July 2020, and Leading Learning will launch in July 2021. The program was inspired by findings from an HBS alumni survey indicating that alumni care deeply about public education. The survey inspired HBS senior... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
(MBA 1995), senior vice president of marketing, loyalty, and sales; and Ralph Lopez, vice president of IOC Operations, hosted the group in the airline’s massive command center and spoke about the critical importance of taking View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
of fried eggs, was paid for by Congress, and there was quite a bit of criticism of it. Some people even made fun of it, said things like can have a side of hash browns with that, sort of thing. But you fast forward 30 years ahead and you... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
to food sites because of their immigration status. There is a high demand for food and it is going up quickly. SY: What are your top priorities at this point? JP: The demand for food is a critical need right now. There's a moratorium on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales. What’s wrong with that line of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
deep resolve to take care of the men and women of the US Armed Forces. I saw the impact on the ground of policy decisions that were being made in Washington. And I saw that the best way for me to make an impact was to leave active duty... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
as sound. Getting a healthy copy of the critical gene to the appropriate cells is a solution, but precision inner-ear drug delivery has been a historical stumbling block. An early breakthrough for us was figuring out a way to pair gene... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Making connections at Harvard and beyond
included a number of senior administrative roles at HBS, as well as 10 years in the private sector as president and COO of the First Marblehead Corporation. “The world’s critical problems are not one-dimensional,” he continues. “Improving... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he listened to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
constrained by finances. About half of our students take on debt, and some may feel that they won’t be able to work in their dream job or industry or geography because some areas don’t pay as well as others. Why is it critical to the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
not typically be part of his studies, yet his dad saw merit in it. “I see this program serving him as a line of defense, arming him with critical thinking and a basic understanding of how the world works,” says Ray. “After HBX CORe, I... View Details