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- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
Subsequently, Westphal returned to the Boston area and joined Providence Equity Partners founded by HBS alumnus Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). Finding a perfect fit for himself in private equity, Westphal didn’t consider an MBA originally and View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
everywhere I could to help craft an action plan, identify job openings that were occurring, create new ideas to make this initiative known, and outwit or overcome opposition to the appointment of more women. Those alliances were crucial... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells “This book is a beautifully written call to action that instantaneously absorbed me into a world that I was not, but should have been, familiar with. It simultaneously made me feel powerless... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
overseas. Although it is questionable whether the industry can continue to grow at the same pace as in recent years, the authors predict that venture capital firms will be "an enduring feature on the global economic landscape in the years to come." Learning in View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
fostering an actively anti-racist culture both in and outside the organization. The move comes as a direct response to Dean Nitin Nohria’s recent pledge that HBS would make more urgent progress toward being actively anti-racist, and immediately begin developing an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
As I write this, it has been a year since our world changed because of the pandemic. In March 2020, our Alumni Relations staff were busily planning the upcoming spring reunions, a cohort of alumni had just arrived on campus to attend our... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
takes seven barrels of water to produce a barrel of beer; MillerCoors has gotten that down to 3.5 with plans to reduce to 2.8. “At a high level, we’re addressing water use in our breweries, but also taking a step back [to address water]... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
advantage at Lehman was that I knew I wouldn’t stay there. I was planning to go back to San Francisco and work for my dad,” he explains. Hellman seemed to have a natural ability — he calls it genetic, given the legacy of banking in his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
have one last morning of kissing his three kids goodbye and going to work and thinking everything was OK. One final bit of normal, she thought. The initial post-diagnosis plan was for Benjy to continue his busy schedule as a radiologist,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
car. The human observer was not surprised by the child in the street. Subtle behavioral cues had told him the boy was planning to cross to his mother. What was surprising was that the self-driving car simulator recognized those cues, too.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
smart can be even more important than working hard." HBS Press Books in Brief Leading the Revolution, by Gary Hamel, offers an action plan -- indeed, an incendiary device -- for any company or individual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and COO of the 2010 World Series–winning Giants, is on the air at a local sports radio station. He’s announcing plans to take the Series trophy on tour, not only throughout Northern California but also across the country to the site of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
in subterfuge. No one of them knew the full plan for producing and distributing the posters, and each took a circuitous path to the central Warsaw basement where they would be printed. But as Maj and his friend Janek walked away from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human... View Details