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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
rich, poor. I put a book on hold and when it arrives, it’s kind of magical.” The big L: “For me, leadership means making decisions even when they’re hard and nobody else wants to, and doing it with integrity. I can compromise on issues,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
Despite New England’s long traditions of farming and fishing, only an estimated 5–10 percent of the food consumed in the region is actually produced there. That’s a fact Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is working hard to change. “At least 50... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
management techniques to the bank his grandfather founded. In the process, he has gained international attention and praise. Cultural differences between U.S. and Thai organizations, Banthoon explains, run deep. In Thailand, he says, “it is unacceptable to come down... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
students said, ‘If I can’t see it, it’s hard for me to be it.’ And we fail our other students because we don’t show them the many sources of amazing talent in the world. We put them at risk of overlooking talent.” “When our cases don’t... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
CEO, having first served six months as COO. Since 9/11, it’s hard to think of a business with more growth potential than security. Even before that fateful day in 2001, GE executives made the strategic decision to build from scratch a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa. Morrell: If you live with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
than when you arrived. Ginger Graham (MBA 1986), former president and CEO, Amylin pharmaceuticals, Boulder, Colorado Approach your career as a life-building exercise: go where you can grow, treat everyone with respect, learn every day, and give back every chance you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
traditional Indian greeting. It’s hard for Western observers to fathom, but EMRI’s 108 service is India’s first coordinated emergency response system, similar to the 911 system in the United States. At least for residents of Andhra... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Wallace Stevens called playing “A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,” is a fugitive thing. It depends on an artist’s skill and a viewer’s perception, neither of which can be quantified or standardized. For many, this moves art beyond the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
cigarettes,” DeLong writes in Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire. “When Mr. Snively told a story about the Revolutionary War, I remember holding my breath with excitement.” DeLong unpacks what goes into making that kind of magic happen, taking a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
from your struggles, it can still be hard to share those publicly. Nevertheless, we set up on Spangler lawn at Spring Reunions and asked a few brave souls to recount some of their greatest challenges and tell us what they learned from... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
skills in the house, spent his after-school hours submitting hundreds of job applications on her behalf. But even after following all the advice he could mine from Google and the public library, they didn’t get any call-backs. It was Ng’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series of occasional opinion pieces by HBS alumni who are professional writers, Time magazine’s national political correspondent Karen... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
single woman doing buying that old farm?”) to a firmly established member of the community. With a long salt-and-pepper braid snaking down her back and surrounded by her sheep, cows, and land, it’s hard to picture Reade in her previous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
been effective. The issue is finding the dollars and the leadership to do that." SOLVING THE HR DILEMMA "It's difficult to recruit the skill level we need for district-level finance positions when most people capable of overseeing a $100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
world will flourish. Those who cannot will suffer greatly. There are clear signs everywhere that we need new ways to think about the world and our place in it. Our old ideas about education, lifestyle, success and happiness no longer work. How is work changing? How can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
in the school of experience. The skills that leaders have—or lack—depend heavily on which “courses,” so to speak, they have and have not taken along the way. When the Right Stuff Isn’t Right at All Take, for example, the story of... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
as the professors and courses. “What they were doing in the world was amazing, and I realized I had been given a tremendous opportunity. I gained leadership skills and strategic vision that has enabled me to make a difference in the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
monthly panel discussion series called "The Future of ," which offers experts' perspectives on emerging technologies, demographic shifts, and macroeconomic developments and highlights the leadership skills required to navigate a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
the area. Marietta also had an ideal mix of skills and experience. In addition to launching Giant Otter at HGSE, he founded a consultancy that helped schools across the country improve labor, management, and community relations; so he... View Details