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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
economies—work that sometimes meant traveling to as many as four European capitals in two days. For Cognetti, however, all public service is created equal. Her role on the school board connects with two of her key values: first, everyone... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
gradually reduced his role at Local Motors as the Factory Five partnership blossomed and rejoined Ford. This went against the advice of Professor Warren McFarlan, an early investor in Local Motors. “Jay is special,” McFarlan told Jones.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
in economically important contexts and designing and testing policies aimed at closing them. Her work focuses on the role of beliefs: How do stereotypes bias the beliefs that individuals hold about themselves (and others), and how do... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
“The students run the entire graduation ceremony. They design, plan, and present,” she says. “They are super proud. It’s been great to have this opportunity to play a role in that transformation.” Such results are having an impact on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
"The School has continued to play a role in my life, long after graduation," adds Keck. She cites in particular one of her former HBS professors who, after the birth of her first child, helped her return to the workforce. Her ongoing HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
Foundation Professorship. Narayandas will leave the role of Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, but will continue to serve as Senior Associate Dean for Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). Narayandas begins this new leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
accepted an offer from General Electric and held various senior management roles in the United States before moving to India in early 2005, where he became CEO of GE India’s infrastructure business. Although the two stayed in touch after... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
experience with the Silicon Valley business model. Before she started BulkWhiz in 2017, she worked at Facebook as the head of brand advertising in the Middle East and North Africa. And it was in that role that she saw opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional venture capital fund. And he... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships
Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency as well. As head of investments for Sri Lanka’s Western Region Megapolis Planning Project,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
more than thrive. Now she’s bringing that exper-tise to bear on a new shift in business: the “greening” of the global economy. After 21 years as a management professor at MIT’s Sloan School, Henderson arrived on the HBS campus this fall to take on her new View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
and how it might've played a role in this story? YH: Kokorozashi is personal resolve. There are three parts: One is your vision, what you want to do. Second, is the commitment that you will do it. Third thing is that it has a strong,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
is becoming an ever-more urgent issue and one that inevitably will mean increased involvement for the private sector. Says American Water’s Jeremy Pelczer, “On their own, or working with NGOs, or in public-private partnerships, investor-owned companies have a View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
Sciences Project, then, is playing a role in the education, understanding, and preparation of people at HBS and beyond for the sweeping, life sciences–based changes that are coming to the economy. It is providing a forum where ideas about... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
political dynasties, stretching into the uppermost boughs of his family tree. His father, Constantine Mitsotakis, held a number of government roles before serving as prime minister from 1990 to 1993. (Kyriakos spent those years earning a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
developing countries—the full actors of the fight against climate change. I joined the Green Climate Fund back in 2014 to help set up the institution and to facilitate the negotiation of the Paris Agreement. “So I saw my role as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
McCord’s worldview, are so self-motivated, self-aware, and self-disciplined that they’re also worthy of that freedom. These “innovator-mavericks” (her preferred term) hate almost everything about being trapped in a typical role or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint