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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records... View Details
- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
focused on developing new markets. Before starting Auditory Insight, I created and ran the patient engagement business for HPOne, which was founded and led by my section mate, Bill Stapleton. Before... View Details
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1.18 FIELD Global Capstone - MBA
with their assigned Global Partner organization. The agreement is designed to facilitate the educational objectives of the course, by giving the Global Partner reasonable assurances (about confidentiality, for example) that will encourage... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Illustrations by John Ritter HBS/HU Growth With the Allston land purchase, Harvard University has begun to expand across the Charles River and around the HBS campus. How do you see the School interacting with the University (and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
employees. This seems both ill-considered and unlikely to work. I doubt this bill will become law. But when capitalism goes unchecked and unexamined, and management is seduced by a narrow and myopic... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Dream: Tales from the Middle of the Pack By James Riehl, Jr. (MBA 1978) Palmetto Publishing During the running boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the names of the swiftest runners were on everyone’s lips. Frank Shorter. View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
words to share how outraged and disappointed I am by the continued extrajudicial killing of Black men and women. I feel a deep tension as I am inspired by the energy and passion of those that have gathered... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
low income individuals or veterans or women or LGBT people. We asked ourselves, ‘How do you bridge that gap?’” In September of 2021, then-New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio announced that BlocPower had won a $37 million contract to create... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the founding CEO of Palm and the cofounder of Handspring, ushering in two of the tech ages biggest leaps—handheld computing, and the smart phone. So, she's essentially been famously successful by being right about the future. We sat down... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
shines on White House honorees - illuminated these issues, and their HBS champions, in high relief. It was an indication of how much these matters have come to the fore. At a February 11 awards ceremony and daylong program of events in the nation's capital, President... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also considered how... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company actually admitting that to themselves and to the public—then real change is afoot. “When we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details