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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
And Tuesday is the day that you solve for trust. So you run the experiments on rebuilding trust with the stakeholder at the center of your problem. Wednesday, we ask you to do things that adults generally don't like to do, which is to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create and strengthen connections among and between HBS... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
be talking to you today if I hadn’t left marketing,” declares Freyre. The move to sales taught her about retailers, how consumers shop, and ultimately made her a better marketer and leader. “I tap into that diversity of experience every... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
business and civic leaders helped the city clean up its act, but by the early 1980s, most of the smokestacks had shut down anyway, as manufacturing jobs moved out of the area. People left in droves. Visitors today see a different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
strategic leader for us,” says retired Ernst & Young CEO Jim Turley, former chair of the Catalyst board. “She thinks big and pushed us to do the same.” At the heart of everything Ilene Lang has accomplished is a fact that Catalyst... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in with practical business View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
learning. Last year, the MBA Program introduced ChatGPT as a component of the required course Data Science for Managers and the elective Launching Tech Ventures (see below). Faculty members have integrated it into other courses as well, and the new elective Generative... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded his father as president of Zions Bancorporation in 1986. "Our... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
the HBS Fund. “The School has been incredibly thoughtful and progressive, and I trust its leaders to continue on the right path,” he says. While it took him some time to create his estate plan, including HBS in his philanthropy is not new... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
organization, teach them how to be more inclusive.” “If you want to skyrocket performance in any organization, teach them how to be more inclusive.” Francesca Gino: We can divide leaders out there into three buckets. The first bucket is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
multiple dimensions.” O’Leary and her husband, DaVita Kidney Care chairman and CEO Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), are alumni leaders whose longtime support of the School includes a recent gift to establish an MBA Program innovation fund. They... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
that has defined the transformational experience of an HBS MBA. "Will we continue to get the most promising young students and future leaders and attract the most remarkable faculty and staff that creates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
consequences and to increase their positive social impact. Bazerman: What I find fascinating about Mike’s work in the tech sector is this: These decisions that business leaders are making affect not just website functionality but how lots... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It became a New York Times bestseller and received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997. More than two decades later, business leaders from... View Details