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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
times,” Datar notes, “it is our community that provides us comfort and our values that give us strength.” Note: Please see this page for guidance on contacting others in the HBS alumni network. HARVARD RESOURCES Scholars at Risk (SAR)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
has caused them to erupt. Some people have clearly decided that 9/11 gives them the right to persecute Muslims. And as a result, we are all collectively paying for the sins of terrorists — a radical, crazy few who just happen to share the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
start new businesses. When you’re running a company, it’s a very lonely job. If you’re at a venture capital firm, you can share all the ups and downs with your partners and collaborate in a way that’s very fun and unique. Being an... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
risks where the payoff wasn't obvious. After HBS, he opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston—and watched commuters stream by in the morning until he added fresh croissants and baguettes, both novelties at the time. That store would become... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
gradually entering the vernacular. “I wrote four business plans while in school,” says David P. Perry (MBA 1997), who was a finalist that first year and went on to implement his plan upon graduation. Perry’s start-up, Chemdex, rode the dot-com roller coaster and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Iraq military service in bestselling books, have shared their leadership skills and experience both inside and outside the classroom, as have other HBS military veterans. Collectively, the Armed Forces Alumni Association continues to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
MBA 1974 STAMPS: At home in Coconut Grove. Roe Stamps took a significant risk when he left a successful career at one of Boston’s leading venture capital firms to launch his own company. Together with a longtime colleague, in 1984 he... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Kordestani recalls. Once they felt confident that McKenna was ready to accept the role, Mercy Corps leadership shared the detailed findings of the investigation with her. (As a group, they revealed organizational mishandling and a greater... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
is now one of the three largest executive search firms in the world, with billings of almost $300 million last year. At the 2002 HBS Alumni Achievement Awards panel discussion, held in Burden Auditorium October 3, award recipient Margie Yang View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” or publicly performing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
circumstances under which companies can, in terms of the environment, most successfully create value or lessen business risk. (An example of value created and risk reduced might be found with a newly developed, disease-resistant plant... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
maintaining a vibrant organization requires cultivating an environment that supports risk taking. Asking participants to recall situations in which their organizations succeeded and failed at being creative, Amabile then invited the women... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
“Many stocks considered ‘growth’ stocks share this same feature. But meme stocks layer onto this a very specific way that the gap develops, through a frenzy of usually social media–driven fervor.” “These stocks are likely to fall in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate... View Details