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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making sure all the numbers actually add up across and down, and that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Lorentzen, a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), was a leading figure at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. His message then and now is that "the discipline imposed by environmental concerns can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard’s Next Frontier
more important to improve humanity than education,” said Paulson, who graduated as a Baker Scholar. “For 379 years, Harvard has had a profound impact across a multitude of disciplines that benefits all of humanity.” Paulson said the gift... View Details
Keywords: Drew Faust
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
conservative, disciplined approach. At the end of 2018, Tesla’s cash on hand totals stood at $3.7 billion; that total was $14.5 billion for the third quarter of 2020. That’s money the carmaker can use for global expansion, including new... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
gives high school juniors and seniors interested in STEM subjects an early immersion in the college environment, and helped an organization win a $5 million grant to promote entrepreneurship to high school students. “It’s an opportunity to marry technical View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the local community. For the first time, students from different academic disciplines across the University will have access to shared space to work on new ventures, guidance from HBS’s... View Details
- 20 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business
Leading innovation is the foundation of a company's success—in bad times as well as good. This is the lesson Lynda M. Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor, has drawn from her research. Applegate has identified an approach to managing growth and innovation while also... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view of the many different View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
discipline,” says Henderson. “Here at HBS, it’s designed to support faculty working together across disciplines and across the University, and to make sure we’re all aware of each other’s activities and of common issues that come up.”... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Zone, and the Salvation Army, among others. “One of the things that’s remarkable about Tom is his discipline and intentionality,” says Bridgespan cofounder Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992). “Tom has a personal commitment to making a difference... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
“John is the epitome of a visionary leader,” said Nohria. “He understands that this gift will be the cornerstone for a Harvard campus in Allston, where multiple disciplines can converge and combine their passion for knowledge, unleashing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
leadership of Henderson and Professor Forest Reinhardt, the BEI coordinates the activities of a large group of Harvard faculty members from multiple disciplines in an effort, Henderson says, "to create new business models that encourage... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
case-method curriculum broadened my horizons and expanded how I think about problems,” says the Baker Scholar. “I gained the discipline to strategize and think longer term.” Burt would go on to lead a distinguished career, retiring in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. HEAR MORE Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. A nonprofit needs to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
2.8 percent to a total of $294 million. Commenting on the results, HBS chief financial officer Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) notes, “The combination of tight fiscal discipline and renewed revenue growth across the School allowed us to make... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view of the many different View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
strategy can stretch an agency’s core capabilities and push it in unintended directions. If a nonprofit doesn’t develop (its) operating mission and strategy platform in a disciplined way, its management tends to think every program is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
getting students to think across disciplines and functions. “The front-end perspectives courses and the capstone Synthesis Seminar definitely focus on the integrated nature of management issues,” Joss explains in an e-mail. “But most of... View Details