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- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
civil rights movement leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy was Diamond’s godfather. Diamond credits his mother—who worked in sales with Mary Kay cosmetics—with instilling in him a “high level of enthusiasm about business in general, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
pattern-recognition, numeric, mechanical, and abstract skills. Once chosen, the trainees were employed by HPE and then deployed to client sites. With 1 in 63 Australian school children on the Autism Spectrum, according to Autism Aspergers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Himalayas, through the four spiritual peaks. And we went with two full-time cinematographers and we each had GoPro type cameras. That, much like the death of my friend, accelerated this movement and reorientation of values away from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
turning our considerable energies more and more to giving back. Typically, much effort is original and entrepreneurial: starting film schools for inner-city youth or tackling the problem of what to do with eighteen-year-olds emerging from... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
on both sides as students attempt the deft, precise movements the process demands. After a full day in the village, we’re all left with an unspoken question: How does this slow, labor-intensive way of life jibe with an MBA’s view of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
(science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics). Whether used as an introductory aid or to underscore previous knowledge, the book prepares today’s visually savvy children to succeed in school and life by analyzing the world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Successful Harvard Business School Graduate, As Told in the Case Study Method by Fred Kahn (MBA 1963) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform In this memoir, Kahn uses the case-study method to examine the most pivotal moments in his... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
interested in data streams and manual trackers. This whole movement must in some ways kind of feel like a validation of what you've been doing. It's interesting. I think that in some ways, absolutely. And it is great to see other people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
of the MBA Program before focusing his research on how large institutional investors make decisions about social issues. (He also worked simultaneously at a small church in Somerville, Massachusetts.) With DBA in hand, from 1989 to 1996, he taught ethics and public... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
It’s also about a movement of people away from jobs where they’re not sure they are innovating to jobs at startups where they can be entrepreneurial.” -Diane Hessan (MBA 1977), CEO, Startup Institute Daughters of employed mothers are more... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that you've seen generally in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
shelter–these were the everyday realities of a boyhood spent in the outskirts of London during the early 1940s. In this personal and meticulously detailed account of growing up under the stresses, daily dangers, and constant movement of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE For 50 years, Harvard Business School has recognized a number of outstanding women and men by conferring on them its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving that they call “radical... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business... View Details