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- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller
View Video Editor's note: Watch the video in "full screen" mode for the best viewing experience. Before shaping one of the world’s largest sports brands, Nike executive Larry Miller spent years of his youth and early adulthood behind bars... View Details
- 19 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
One thing that stuck with Pete Stavros from the dinner-table conversations of his youth was that capitalism seemed fundamentally broken for his father, who earned an hourly wage working construction. The incentive was not there for... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Marketing Director for Beneficial Pain, an educational nonprofit focused on empowering and investing in youth in Baltimore. She has also done communications freelance work for nonprofit social impact organizations like Partners in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
it was and what might have caused or contributed to it (such as having a “fixed’ mindset after having been told all my youth that I was “so smart”) and to know that perhaps the voice inside my head was mistaken. Today I am surprised to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Joint Venture
is still a big, unmet need.” In that, he saw a significant—and growing—business opportunity. With risk factors leading to knee replacement on the rise—obesity, longer and more active life spans, specialization in youth sports—demand is... View Details
Keywords: Shoshi Parks
- August 2018
- Case
Christine Lagarde
By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
Battilana, Julie, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas, and Noemie Assenat. "Christine Lagarde." Harvard Business School Case 419-016, August 2018.
- Profile
Chris Aguemon
amazing to hear the joy in the room and see how close we had come as a section alongside an exceptional faculty member. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I was 10, I started playing youth football. I remember one particular... View Details
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
French youth services organization Unis-Cité, which was modeled after the American nonprofit City Year. Credit: Unis-Cité “If you do not innovate and have a solution to the problem you’ve identified, the movement will die,” she says. “I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Portrait Project
Alex Angelopoulos
I still remember the feeling of emptiness while evaluating my career prospects when I graduated college in 2015. With youth unemployment at 50%, I was entering the workforce in one of the worst job markets Greece had ever seen. I was an... View Details
- Web
Profiles - MBA
minority youth with mental health support. The nuanced process of building and scaling a solution to a pressing social issue inspired me to study the ways technology interfaces with other disciplines to create change. Professional goals:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
themselves immediately but also aspire to advance. By offering an optimal club experience, McCarthy aims to establish a long-term membership base that functions as an annuity stream. That, in turn, affords him the ability to bring in more pros, develop View Details
- Web
Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Volunteer Corps The mission of the Volunteer Corps is to inspire, organize, and facilitate community volunteer programs for members of the Harvard Business School community. Our main programs include small business consulting, youth... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
City of Boston Mayor’s Office, she led cross-cutting initiatives including the city’s COVID-19 crisis response and recovery, and Boston’s Police Reform Task Force. At the U.S. Department of Labor, she catalyzed youth workforce efforts and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
cannot surface: Abjuring rigorous debate about its merits, a youthful president John F. Kennedy essentially rubber-stamped a 1961 plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, resulting in one of the biggest U.S. foreign policy fiascoes in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
has personally made a significant effort to share his good fortune with the community, creating a $5-million foundation to help inner-city youth with education and job training and establishing scholarships for the children of Polaris... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
macro to micro. At the macro level, we have to ensure that our youth have hope. The three things that I always ran on was, number one, we need to ensure that our schools reach accreditation status. Currently, they're not fully accredited,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
explaining why the club organized the webinar. “Over the next 20 years, it will become the most populous continent, and with the largest youth population that would be 100% digital native. They are smart, highly motivated and, with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Runner-Up Empowering youth in West Africa to access employment opportunities through vocational training. Business Track, 2012 Vaxess Technologies Michael A. Schrader Anura Patil Livio Valenti Patrick Ho Kathryn Kosuda Isa Watson Business... View Details