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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Schechter closed on March 12, then went to remote learning the following week. Schwartz says the speed at which he and his fellow school administrators were able to pivot benefited from advance warning about the severity of the crisis... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
moment in time.” He sees strengthening our “culture of democracy” as the pivotal issue in US governance today. Moss points to the results of a survey, cited in a 2017 Journal of Democracy article, which asked respondents around the world... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
them from the field to the sanctity of that moment, the sacredness of that moment, is generally just a quick prayer and an acknowledgment that we're blessed to be in these roles, and to have these opportunities. But then, we also pivot... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
and pivot into a substantial unknown. In-person gatherings were canceled—and everyone wondered, what comes next? To their credit, the staff who decamped to their homes across the greater Boston area and beyond quickly regrouped and began... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Stevenson Accepts Key University Position
President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier (MBA ’92) on strategic planning for University fundraising, as well as its implementation. “Howard has played a View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy jobs she aspired to had MBA... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming for the emerging Generation Z. Ng knew she wanted to pursue... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture — it’s also about personal... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we pivoted and developed some of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
the Beatles, Thomas Alva Edison, Michael Jordan, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the founders of Infosys, author Amish, and others have used rejections as a pivot to swing their careers and businesses around. Parameswaran brings his decades of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
way to solve it. Morrell: With this goal and the investments from Omidyar and others, Ruma pivoted and soon rebranded as Mapan, a word that implies something is “financially self-sufficient.” Haryopratomo: What Mapan does is it solves a... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
pivotal concepts I learned at HBS was how so many other industries deeply think about the customer’s needs, and how they can achieve those needs in the fewest and most-simple, well-designed steps. I’m thinking if I could harness the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Kushner (MBA ’11), the company’s 25-year-old chief strategy officer told the FT. “So we pivoted to gaming.” That decision changed everything. Now, Vostu is the largest social game developer in the Brazilian market, with games like Mini... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Today, Lambert feels fully herself in a way that wasn’t true in the past. Granted, she isn’t making a typical MBA salary. But she and her husband, Cei, have enough resources for what they’ve prioritized: art, community, good food, and the freedom to View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
Jakurskis were inspired to support junior faculty during a pivotal point in their careers. “By investing in associate professors, Maria and I feel we are helping HBS sustain and further its world-class faculty,” says André Jakurski,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
range of online cyber attacks, from spam to large DDoS attacks, and will make it easy to add third-party services. That first sentence of the business plan is what we do today. I think that it’s gotten broader, but we didn’t really pivot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Successful Harvard Business School Graduate, As Told in the Case Study Method by Fred Kahn (MBA 1963) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform In this memoir, Kahn uses the case-study method to examine the most pivotal moments in his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
crippling civil conflict: Sri Lanka is at a pivotal moment in its history, he says, a moment that represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do no less than help shape his country’s future. He turns back to the lake, framing the view... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical Engineering LESSONS FROM HBS “The Human Behavior in Organizations course... View Details