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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
have found their passion in municipal government. “You’d be hard pressed to find any position where you are a senior manager of a $3 billion organization that impacts people so directly,” says Koh. “There is no greater meaning in life... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
of the K–12 system in the United States and the teaching profession. How would you describe the state of the teaching profession today? Mallory Dwinal-Palisch: We're in a race to the bottom. And what I mean by that is, there are 4 million teaching View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior associate dean for University... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
guilt, and feeling the loss of how things used to be.” Pasricha also gave some leadership advice, as well as tips for individuals to develop a positive outlook. “The best thing leaders can do is have frequent, casual check-ins where they... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
in this area in both our MBA and executive education programs. For a quarter of a century, our Owner/President Management Program has set the standard for educating entrepreneurial managers for leadership positions around the world. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
“Surely you don’t want me to hire somebody for a job that doesn’t exist?” The reaction from callers has been very positive and very respectful. Months of bad press after 9/11 must have crushed morale. How did you turn that around? Through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
boards, including those of UAL (the parent company to United Airlines), Liz Claiborne, and St. John's College. Part of that transition includes his position as executive- in-residence at Columbia Business School, where he teaches... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
lacrosse season as a coach at Brookline High School, traveling, then back to the working world with a position in private equity. That’s a nice benefit. What else was valuable about the learning team experience? Courtney Hughes: The... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
outlook. As Goldman helps the new executive director transition into the role and steps back into her board position in 2023, she will do so not only with more knowledge of the challenges faced on the ground but also the assurance that... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
platform—you can run it with two or three people—and it’s the only one of its kind that I’m aware of. The Big Give could be the vehicle for all kinds of global appeals. It’s very much underway, and we’re well positioned to do that.” View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
Outside the Building, Kanter profiles many such people, including Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981), the president and CEO of Sesame Workshop who brought the power of Sesame Street to refugee children, and offers a roadmap for others preparing to tackle our era’s biggest... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
book titled Ironclaw (the radio call sign of his carrier squadron). He completed the nonfiction account in 1995 during the last year of a final tour of duty in Washington, D.C., that included positions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
opened up all these possibilities for me,” adds Tierney, whose summer internship at Bain & Company turned into a full-time position upon graduation. Although he claims to have gotten off to a rocky start, in three years he was promoted to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal can capture many midsized markets where it will confront fewer rivals, it will be in a strong position to eventually partner with big-city victors to create a shared platform that allows travelers from any city to dine with... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
policy. "I loved that course because it really had the general manager's approach in each case. It allowed me to experience being a general manager, taking the whole business view, not just the accounting aspect, positioning the company,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
the airline JetBlue, for example: It has no meals and no round-trip airfares, but it does have leather seats and personal entertainment centers that delight and surprise its passengers. JetBlue’s unique combination of features is what gives it a unique View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Meanwhile, graduates are snapped up by financial, consulting, and other leading firms at ever-increasing starting salaries. So where’s the rub? Despite these positive indicators, there are deep-rooted concerns about the “industry.” For... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Defecting from his position as Rajapaksa’s minister of health, Sirisena’s unexpected win signaled a miraculously peaceful transition to a more democratic, just future. A coalition government formed, with Ranil Wickremesinghe, a... View Details