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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
“invisible handshake” of collaborative networks. The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do by Mark Miller (AMP 170, 2006 ) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) What is the secret of high-performance teams? Miller tells a business fable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Entrepreneurs’ Fund
month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you can have a direct and real impact on building a person's self-esteem. That insight impacts the way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Six Receive Dean’s Award
(New Orleans rejuvenation); and the team of Rye Barcott, Alex Ellis, Neil Wagle, and Kate Wattson (creating Building Green Businesses, a second-year field study seminar). View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
HBS. From there he landed in Johannesburg, where he’s been based for more than two decades. His message: that honest, personal stories can go a long way in instilling values and bringing teams together. His work runs the gamut from... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
hurdle over a long period of time. We don’t think about how we do that in any one year. We think about how we do that over the course of 10 years. And so it means going into new markets, it means looking for inefficiencies, it means View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
All photos by Webb Chappell From the Charles River, the newly renovated Baker Library looks very much as it has for the past seventy-some years — stately columns, enormous windows, the signature bell tower. But a closer inspection reveals a few subtle changes. The back... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
previous role as the founding partner of Suffolk Equity Partners, Martignetti enjoys the passion that young entrepreneurs—many of them HBS graduates—bring to their endeavors. “I like working with teams intent on pushing to make their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. The goal: to examine how leadership has evolved in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
basketball camp for girls, ever, in the Pocono Mountains. They wanted to build the sport by approaching sponsors to support women’s basketball in the few forums it had at the time. I was a big sports fan, but I knew nothing about women... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
and then added basic materials and aerospace and defense.” After seven years leading teams at Vista, Kovatch joined Covanta, a renewable energy company where she was responsible for building an innovation... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
money behind me, I'll be fine.") Describing GE as really not much different from the neighborhood grocery he patronized while growing up in Salem, Massachusetts, Welch said, "Business is a bunch of lucky calls, a bunch of bounces here and there. It's about your ability... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
everything right. I would have started sooner.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in this work? “HBS is full of capable and competitive people, with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. It’s the best preparation for team View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
five characteristics distinguish outstanding ventures. Most ventures will have only two or three of these when they come to us, so we work with the team to add the missing elements. The characteristics are technical excellence;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
Set to open this fall in a newly renovated building on Western Avenue in Allston, the Harvard Innovation Lab is stirring up excitement at HBS and across the University. The “i-lab” will foster collaborative, entrepreneurial activities and... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
Goldman turned to Lex Suvanto (MBA 1999) for help. As CEO of a strategic communications unit within Edelman, the world’s largest public relations and marketing firm, Suvanto had teams and skills at hand that could support the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
countries closed their borders. Diagne’s first task was to work closely with the ministry’s leadership team in crafting an economic response to the pandemic. Worldwide, crisis management involved very similar challenges—layoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
served as consultants, facilitating interactions between those teams and their corporate sponsors. For a project with General Motors, Dorothea Carraway (HBS '00) and her teammates took their cues from GM's Adam D. Bernard (MBA '90) and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
and type of patients on the ward and the skills required to care for them, along with constraints on individual nurses, such as the number of consecutive hours they can safely work. All in all, building schedules can take a manager up to... View Details