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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
of universal goals for all women. Instead, Kraus says much of her academic focus—informed by her study of entrepreneurship, career planning, and the juggling of work/family priorities—is on helping women develop and commit to a personal... View Details
- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
integral part of my life,” said Griffin. “It helped me become the person I am today and that’s why it’s been so important for me to stay involved with the School throughout the years, as a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors, the 15th... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa. I’ve served on the board of WildCare, an education and advocacy nonprofit based in San Rafael, California, that cares for injured and orphaned animals, which is how I became involved in rehabilitating and View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
family established a financial aid fund in 1995. As a donor and the son of a fellowship recipient, Petersmeyer urged attendees to “concentrate on value, not on worth” and stressed the importance of personal relationships. Fellowship... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
highly-diversified food service company into what became a highly-focused Dunkin Donuts. I will always be grateful to Professor Salmon for his training and wisdom in those HBS years and in the time and counsel he provided me in subsequent... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
positioning yourself? —Caroline Pan (MBA 2001) STEWART: There is no one answer to this question. The advice is not different from what men do, by the way. Unlike almost everything else a successful person does in his or her professional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
front of the other until you hit the finish. Everyone has a different take on training protocol, but for me all that mattered was that I believed I could do it and therefore decided not to quit. Second, View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
came across a study about the differences between men and women legislators. I began thinking, what would it be like if a woman were president of the United States? One way to find out, my MBA training told me, was to seek out examples of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
“everybody knows Uncle Billy here at Chapman Partnership,” she says. Hudson has brought both her personal experience with the plight of homelessness and her business knowledge to the organization. Those combined perspectives led her to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992), who created a summer training program for five students in response to the School’s outreach. “My background is in health care,” says Powers, who worked remotely for the San Francisco, California–based firm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
job today is 30 to 40 percent about people, mainly teaching them how to compete in the 21st century”); judgment as to what constitutes a sound idea (“Being able to see through the chatter into those one or two things that make a difference”); and the importance of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ask questions or to appear vulnerable, and pressuring coworkers to prove themselves through acts of physical bravery. The goal of this company’s training was to enhance employee safety and reliability in a very hazardous workplace. We... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
telephone-television-Internet system." Given the success of the Internet, which the authors liken to "a kind of broadband on training wheels," they predict that as broadband technology evolves during the coming years, its power to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
think is right.” How did you prepare for this assignment? I took a two-week ambassadorial training seminar and several weeks of refresher instruction in French. I read up on the history of Morocco and attended a number of State Department... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
training program, and now just became employee number one at Microsoft's development center in Nigeria. And he's an amazing person, I mean with or without Andela, he would have been fine. When you meet him, you'll know, he's on a mission.... View Details