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Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in View Details

May 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Natalie Kindred

How will Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) preserve its private practice tradition while remaining effective and competitive in a healthcare industry demanding increasing integration between physicians and hospitals? This is the decision facing Newton-Wellesley Hospital... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Health Industry; Massachusetts

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31 Oct 2023
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Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

loyalties among clients, colleagues, and partners can present ethical issues that can be difficult to manage, says David Fubini, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “You are an adviser. You are not an employee of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting

19 Apr 2017
Blog Post

7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library

As members of the Curriculum & Learning Services (CLS) team at Baker Library, we have the opportunity to work closely with MBA students: in View Details

22 Nov 2024
News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Originally from Mexico City, Mexico Paulina Ponce de Leon moved to the United States in 2001 to attend Wellesley College. After graduating from Wellesley, Paulina spent a year travelling and pursuing a... View Details

20 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

This post is part of the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) “Leadership in Challenging Times” blog series, which highlights the inspiring work of... View Details

March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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18 Jul 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs who have created 45 companies and raised over $520M in funding to impact the business View Details

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LOG IN For a more personalized visit Log in Heartland Heartland When she came to HBS, Jordan Kraft Lambert wanted to leave behind her agricultural roots. Now, serving as the nexus for a community View Details

11 Jun 2021
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Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms

senior associate dean for culture and community three years ago. Via teaching faculty retreats focused on real-life classroom scenarios, coordinating cases featuring issues of... View Details

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

cautionary tales. Take Charles Darwin, who was despondent in his twilight years because he had not been able to replicate the success of his earlier work, On View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

09 Jun 2023
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Learning Curve

year, the Joy School enrolled 18 kids, then 30, and then 45. Today, the school teaches about 150 children—kindergarten through eighth grade—from approximately 40 communities in... View Details

14 Jan 2022
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

25 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

Persistence. Teamwork. Grit and grace in victory and defeat. Intercollegiate varsity sports may build such skills that employers prize—and that later propel former players into management roles faster than their classmates, suggests a recent study tracking View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

I hope will last. My primary research interests are political economy and development. In the past few years economists have been very interested in analyzing political phenomena like civil wars. Civil wars... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2019
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Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 View Details

Keywords: Technology

11 Mar 2016
Blog Post

2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options

The 2+2 Program was unknown to me until late in my senior year as an Electrical and Computer Engineering student at the University of Texas at... View Details

18 Apr 2022
HBS Case

Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

our economic analysis.” Crafting a careful communications strategy Stack and his colleagues fully expected a backlash from angry customers and gun-rights groups, such as the National Rifle Association, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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