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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
generation to run Tension Envelope, the company (now Tension Corporation) founded by Berkley’s grandfather in 1886. Berkley became CEO in 1962; his son Bill was the fourth generation to step into the role, in 1988, with Berkley staying on as chairman. Based in Kansas... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
sometimes vigorous debate about pivotal issues. The "tip of the iceberg" is how Professor Thomas K. McCraw, one of the principal organizers of the symposium, described the event's program. "A tremendous amount of important research and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a book and presented a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
business and pursue their own ventures—whether they are just starting out with a great idea or are ready to go to market. In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, a number of current and former teams in the Venture Program doubled down or View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
going to help fill a gap for those people who find themselves without a job and want to learn a new skill or brush up on an old skill to make themselves more competitive. I hope it’ll help people get employed faster or even pivot to a new... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
forced to work from home in the pandemic, it pivoted from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to lead the Alumni Association over the last two years at such a pivotal time in the School’s history. Susan Luick Good (MBA ’71) May 2003 View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of billions in federal bailout... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
She asked Bulletin readers for their thoughts. The Decision: “We absolutely went digital,” Cass says. Doing so required adding mechanical and software engineering specialties to the team, as well as a data scientist. They also pivoted... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
plant from the age of 16. He emphasized the importance of education, and thanks to my mother I could write cursive and read before I started kindergarten.” Pivot point: “I was nearly two years into a PhD in electrical engineering when I... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
handful of individuals may have been out.” Yang and Rocco recently took on the task of rebooting the LGBTAA and were about to kick off large social events in four cities in the spring, when COVID-19 forced them to pivot to online... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
for a lot of us, especially Harvard graduates, work is probably all-encompassing and the prospect of stopping work and pivoting into something different is a little bit frightening. And so I think it's really important to start in your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
innovator. In this playbook, Schultz makes the case for not raising outside money, finding mentors, and doing every job before hiring others and also discusses how to pivot when things go wrong and why failure is an outdated concept. What... View Details