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- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
School,” he responded. Sills knew he wasn’t being truthful but nonetheless hired him to be the opera’s finance director. Later, he would be promoted to executive director. “This was the first time I challenged the path that seemed laid... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
honest." —Michael Horn (MBA 2006) Education Executive Director, The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, San Mateo, California Carl Christopher (MBA 2006) Director of School Operations, Partnership for LA Schools View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
customers, so of course it makes sense that we care for our employees and our communities as an extension of that. Eco-consciousness has been part of the company since the beginning, given our practice of recycling and renovating older... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
business in 2004, starting Chalsys, an investment and advisory practice that helps large companies avoid the pitfalls of corporate venturing. And it was through this company that she met a German investor who would become an initial... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
(Courtesy Bradley) “I don’t want to decide anything until I understand everything, out to the corners of the map,” Bradley adds. “That’s a Lou Wells–kind of discipline.” Bradley’s second tactic is finding and cultivating “extreme talent.” (See sidebar at right.) An... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
admired and respected McArthur were legions of HBS alumni. Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) noted, “Early in my career John took a chance and hired me, and we became lifelong friends—our families were literally intertwined. I’ve since had the... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says Sahlman. Plugging HBS In... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and business partners. It took the federal courts nine years to determine in a landmark case that Alibris email practices had violated no privacy laws, caused no harm, nor created undue benefits for the company. I never forgot the... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
explains. Drawing on lessons from the practice of real-estate deal-making, Stevenson came up with his now famous definition of entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled.” That insight in turn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Greater Taylorism has chewed its way across the corporate landscape to virtually everywhere large companies practice twenty-first-century capitalism, which means on just about every continent. Its appetite for more numbers, more data,... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
cofounders deployed their vast expertise and significant networks to get the idea off the ground. “Boards tend to hire from their own circles of interest, and you end up with people on the board who look like you and who sound like you,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them.... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
in seven years. Kewalramani quickly fulfilled her goal of being a "triple threat," working as a researcher, practicing physician, and instructor, but soon realized her true passion lay in making medicines to help patients. She joined... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
redoubled his professional reading. Beck learned to trust her instincts, even when they flew in the face of convention. Rather than follow industry practice and hire part-time employees, she insisted on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an early View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
in the corporate environment and how harmful their absence can be." Bringing Soul to Work Many organizations have begun to tend to the needs of the spirit by hiring holistic consultants who offer classes and seminars on topics such as... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
difficult,” he says. In its new incarnation, EyeView provides advertisers, agencies, and video networks a platform to create personalized online, broadcast-quality video ads tailored to the viewer by location, time of day, real-time offers, and weather. Today the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders, yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Burton provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology to help professionals thrive in the “age of... View Details