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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
while at HBS, sparked by a case she coauthored with Professor Geoffrey Jones on female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the true story of an entrepreneurial young woman succeeding in Taliban-ruled Kabul. It became a bestseller.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
Photo via BostInno Photo via BostInno Former General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982) has been tapped as the new chairman of athenahealth, the Massachusetts-based health care IT company founded by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997). Bush, who serves as CEO, will stay on... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two well-regarded K–12 private... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
appointment with Harvard’s Kennedy School, where she founded the Social Innovation and Change Initiative. Here, they look back at the growing legacy of the SEI and the work still ahead. What are some of the effects from the first 25 years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
enhance the value of the MBA Program by creating a true partnership among faculty, students, and administrators. The Student Association seemed a good vehicle for implementing those ideas; in tandem with the School's MBA: Leadership &... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
community informed, doing monthly debriefs with leadership across the School and kicking off a “Lunch and Learn” series for staff. EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION READ MORE STORIES EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION READ MORE STORIES What... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. She began her career with 25 years in the corporate world, the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the medical technology sector. From 2016 to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
ship. Many of those changes centered on driving readers to an online presence that would go on to win a National Magazine Award in 2013; today, TheAtlantic.com and associated Atlantic Media sites (such as Quartz, its award-winning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
outstanding efforts. Twice Bolick has spearheaded awards programs to honor worthy achievers and to inspire others to reach similar heights: in the Army, where he helped establish the Hurley Awards to recognize leadership and community... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 May 2015
- News
Alumni in Paris Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
our institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,” said Dean Nohria. “As we do so, we need to think not only of the challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of CEO-in-residence be part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Washington University. "Now think of the magic of Avatar in 3D. In that interim period, between 1977 and 2010, the technological advances in moviemaking were unbelievable. But that was not at all matched by any change in the concession... View Details
- 03 May 2019
- News
Giving Voice to Black and Hispanic Women
Edward Lewis (OPM 7, 1980) is the cofounder and chairman of Essence Communications, publisher of Essence and Latina magazines, and a senior advisor at Solera Capital. In this interview, he reflects on the impact of launching these two groundbreaking publications. “In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of Manhattan. Among their many virtues,... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which builds open-source software products... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
when the economy comes back? I think people’s mindsets have been changed by this recession. How long it will last, I don’t know. People who grew up during the Great Depression were frugal throughout their lives. We don’t know how that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
transparent and accountable. Our theory of change is time-proven: One, education matters to your opportunities in life. Two, early education is determinative. Three, media and technology can deliver education at scale costeffectively. And... View Details
Keywords: April White