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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
certain size, one person making all the decisions is no longer feasible. It’s really different when a business is bigger and a leader needs to build a team and manage through people. You can’t manage one-on-one in a large company. It’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
for partnership between the faculty, staff, and students." Even as an undergraduate at Harvard, team leadership came naturally to Mitchell. He was a two-time captain of the varsity basketball team, was voted the team's most valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Lawson, 27. "My partner and I were inexperienced managers, but we had a lot of energy and a solid business plan." Once she raised the seed capital, everything began to fall into place: she filled out the management team (including a CEO),... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
O’Donnell replied, “We went out and said we have hope.” A month later, the O’Donnells made news again, with a $30 million gift to Harvard University. “Harvard has played a very important role in my life,” said O’Donnell, who is also a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
partners Howard E. Cox Jr. (MBA 1969) and Henry F. McCance (MBA 1966), were honored in 2003 with an HBS Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of Greylock’s role in helping to build more than 250 companies and nurturing numerous... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
hand and turn it into action. For instance, the Synthesis process might find that a CEO who is frustrated that her leadership team is not taking charge has been the sole decision maker and naturally continues to fill that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
particularly Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, and those who have supported our events in the past, play an important role in our continued success.” Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson delivered the opening address of the... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
of a requirements interpretation and making sure, again, that the astronauts are safe. But that provider is providing the service to NASA to get them from the launch pad to the International Space Station. So those roles have changed.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
cofounder and COO of FarmTogether, a startup connecting investors to farmland investment opportunities. “There is a strong coalition of alumni working in various roles and industries here in New York City who are committed to generating... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
the behaviors necessary to learn and perform well, and they appeared to be less constrained by outside factors," Edmondson explained. Edmondson contends that managers and team leaders can set an example when it comes to creating an open,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Liang and her team built filters that would spit out a list of the top-rated options available. Meanwhile in the evenings, to blow off steam, Liang took to her lifelong passion, which is dance. But finding new classes meant cross-checking... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
are a great asset in continuing follow-on discussions.” If your club has ideas for a specific topic that may fit with BEI’s The Role of Business Leadership in the Age of Climate Change series, please reach out to the HBS Clubs View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from its diminished role in the post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world’s reserves of natural gas,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
Ann Sarnoff To Lead Warner Bros. Studio
Former BBC executive Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987) has been named the CEO of Warner Bros.—the company’s first-ever female CEO. As detailed in the New York Times, Sarnoff’s career “has included leadership roles at Nickelodeon, the Women’s... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Social Enterprise Pioneer
HBS professor Kash Rangan talks about a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists who are experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises. And they are insisting that these enterprises operate with greater transparency and accountability. more View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
class and outside my class—that whole network is working for me to make a difference," says Morrison. Morrison has been making an impact since 2010, when she assumed the CEO role at the Council for Economic Education, based in New York... View Details