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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Cynthia King Vance (MBA 1985), director, Advanced Strategies, New York, New York Follow your instincts. Looking back, the decisions I made along the way make more sense now than they did back then. There are common threads that reflected... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
bowing out of certain faculty meetings in which he no longer felt that he was adding value (and where it was socially acceptable to do so). He also stepped down from the editorial boards of four prestigious academic journals and, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to participate in a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities, and Melcher made the View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C.,... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Women can also connect via a series of WhatsApp groups and through LinkedIn. “Because women have many different roles in society, being able to connect and collaborate with and learn from each other throughout all stages of life is hugely impactful,” says Sherri Sklar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
“personal board of directors” cannot be overstated. These small, highly organized and facilitated groups, which are run through the HBS global alumni clubs network, serve as a sounding board and reality... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
(MBA 1980) Crown This book is a fresh, intimate look at a series of American Presidents who took the nation into war and mobilized the country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
percent credited the School for preparing them to make decisions with incomplete information, and an equal percentage also reported that HBS prepared them to address complex problems. Other valued skills included developing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
sync with the larger interests of the nation. Paul Healy: We may have been through these experiences before, but it's shocking where we have ended up, given all the advances in technology and improvements in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
Cofounder, CEO & Board Chair, Numenta, Inc. Former CEO, Palm Computing, Inc., & Handspring, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1977 B.A., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Integrity... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
“expectations of integrity and display of compassion really reflect Mercy Corps team members around the world and how they show up for work every day,” says Kordestani, cofounder of the tech startup Crowdpac and a former director at Google. She had served on the Mercy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
experienced. Why did the SEC override strong industry opposition and require mutual-fund boards to appoint independent chairmen? The commission felt, and I strongly agree, that there’s an unacceptable conflict of interest when the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
customers and from outside the industry), decision agility (anticipating changes and turning even troubling trends into opportunities), and execution agility (building new capabilities, shedding what doesn’t fit, and taking the first... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
business community," Graves said, "continues to reserve the real positions of power for white males." But Graves, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates of Harvard Business School, cautioned that the majority of African... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
working for an investment management firm in Boston. He then served as the Chairman of the Board of the investment management company I started in Boston nine years later. Professor Salmon constantly amazed me with his ability to ask the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man between corporate America and the U.S. government. President... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details