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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
schools were the norm. They offered yearlong programs where you could learn bookkeeping or accounting. Our ambition was higher than that: we wanted to immerse students in understanding business and developing a professional identity as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
as doctoral candidates, our MBA alumni are particularly well suited to ask and answer the big questions tied to the real world of practice. They combine an ambition for big, relevant ideas with an intellectual curiosity and rigor.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses.” As James Tobin, one of Schumpeter’s best Harvard students and himself a Nobel laureate, later wrote, “I have always thought that Schumpeter’s ambition was to develop a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
careers that are less financially rewarding. We need to find ways to help them focus on their ambitions rather than on the repayment of heavy debt. For all these reasons, it is crucial that we develop more sources for financial aid. Are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
the right questions and how to process the answers. I acquired a thirst for knowledge and an instinct for reading human nature. And I developed a driving ambition to build something that would give me and my family financial... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
ancestors. “Everybody before me wanted to have a better life,” he says, not just for themselves, but for their children. “The bar my parents set was not necessarily about ambition or achievement, but about respect,” he adds. Howard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
in the DA’s various bureaus, she recalls, was an education in itself and a means of attaining her immediate goal: a transfer to the homicide bureau. Her ambition was met with skepticism in that all-male world; women were thought too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
friend and CassVita cofounder, Nembu Emmanuel, saw that scenario as “a space for innovation” that could improve the lives of farmers by maximizing the amount of produce they can bring to market. Ajanoh and Emmanuel leveraged their engineering degrees and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
us continue to redefine our program delivery as well as scale and deliver our content. But it will also impact how we build a research infrastructure. We have a fabulous physical infrastructure at the School and, as an alumnus, you know the magic of what happens in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
defining a shared ambition for the various components of its population. We shall work on it. MIZO: A peaceful and newly independent country of proud people, looking to the future. At A Glance Total Area: 25,713 sq. km. Population:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
older I get, the more life experiences happen to me, the more important it becomes to cultivate this habit and not let it pass by.” “Our ambition is to create a course here that’s different, timely, and life-changing for us, but also for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Nike) to illustrate the concept. Grand Ambition by G. Bruce Knecht (MBA 1986) (Simon & Schuster) Knecht tells the story of the travails of Doug Von Allmen, an investor who commissioned a 187-foot, $40 million yacht, and of the artisans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
cares, like, where you went to school [laughing]. Like, you know, if it's ... DM: [laughs] JI: ... it's all about, like, who you are and can you bring heat ? So I think the combination of all those things kind of drove an ambition but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
’09), “and when I asked my host family what they were planning to do in the context of time lines and schedules, I realized that my tendency toward accomplishment and ambition didn’t seem to match with my family’s outlook on life.” As is... 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 Americans, regardless of View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
organizations view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways. What do these people have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
learning environment that would, in his words, “reflect the definite ambition of the faculty to help the students be something more than money makers.” “Over an 87-year timeframe,” adds Crispi, “the School’s leaders have enhanced the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, has written an empowering, entertaining, and informative guide for anyone striving for greater personal impact. From deal making to investing, leadership to entrepreneurship, philanthropy to diplomacy, Schwarzman has... View Details