Mission And Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

years later, looking for a new challenge, she came across salauno. Captivated by the organization’s mission and work, she negotiated a month-long project to show the directors how she could make their... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

media for support, creating a private Facebook group for entrepreneurs in 2017. What started as a group of 25 is now the 20,000-member Female Founders Alliance, a social purpose organization that provides guidance to founders View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

there’s something very intoxicating about the feeling of, ‘Oh, this whole thing is something that I’m creating.’ That’s really a reason to wake up in the morning and also something that’s terrifying on a level that I hadn’t appreciated... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago

Clubs News Clubs News “For entrepreneurs to succeed, they must stay humble.” This was just one of the takeaways from the HBS Club of Chicago’s (HBSCC) recent conversation with Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of investment firm PSP... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

patriot’s one dollar a year. On January 26, 1942, Weinberg was made assistant to the chairman of the War Production Board....To get the numerous topflight young executives he needed, Weinberg called on practically every giant corporation in America, met one-on-one with... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

purpose for meeting with me was to share this experience and to emphasize the integrity, goodwill, and leadership of the protagonist. Clearly, the experience of working with a... View Details

Keywords: Dean

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area nonprofits View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

a plane all the time. But again, that was a bet that I think I took professionally and personally that paid out well. Reddit I think is, if you don’t know the mission for Reddit is community, belonging,... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

children around the world. That volunteer work evolved into a full-time position: From 2000 to 2005, D’Avella worked in the organization’s offices in Virginia, Rome, and London to support its missions in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

achievement-oriented and purposeful to a fault, although we’re good friends today.” “I worked at GE and 3M before coming to Boeing in 2005. When I arrived, the company had... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

for the future of leadership education? MW: The School’s mission is to help educate leaders who make a difference in the world, and I think we can spread our social enterprise work more widely. I’d like us... View Details

23 Aug 2018
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Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming

virtual roundtable discussion, accessible online with registration, to enhance their knowledge in the industry and keep them connected to each other and to HBS. As part of the club’s View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

environment and the quality of life if it is to stay competitive. Building Global Bridges Dean Clark's Sunday afternoon address outlining his vision for the School in the 21st century complemented the conference's global theme. Addressing... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

continue executing the School's mission successfully: "We have been committed for more than seventy years," he said, "to a model of education in which we bring the world into the classroom - we immerse our students in the context of... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

Super Bowls a day for sixteen days." Track Records and a Marathon Sprint Frazier notes that for such an endeavor to succeed, the ability to rapidly build a cohesive entity - forming an institution - is of paramount importance. The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

spring and summer based on the HBS mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. These could be panel discussions, or fireside chats with leaders in the San Antonio business community. Then... View Details