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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
individual manager in determining what to do. “There are some deep, enduring ideas in that book that I’m very fond of,” he adds. As Nohria explains in our interview, the book that speaks most directly to his challenges as Dean is In Their... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Board? I encourage alumni interested in our work to contact any board member. We would love to hear ideas about ways we can further our alumni engagement and continue to find ways to give back to HBS. View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
ancestors—were willing to make to seek something better. Think about, especially, those early immigrants. They had no idea what they were setting forth into when they left their homes. They got on a ship, and they didn't know if they were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
music as if it were a language they were speaking constantly and through that were able to develop their musical senses and abilities to a very high level. And that was just this idea floating around in my mind: Wouldn’t it be great if... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
the significant debt that might have hindered his social entrepreneurship goals. The idea for the Fundación México en Harvard was born in 1989 after a small group of Mexican HBS graduates learned a single, dramatic statistic: half of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
unfamiliar with complex management, he proved a superlative administrator, with a sure sense of managerial hierarchies . Most of all, Hamilton wrote—hundreds, ultimately thousands of pages: orders, letters, reorganization plans, essays on strategy, View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
points over and over again to different kids, I should make videos of each lesson and put them on YouTube. I was skeptical. YouTube was for cats playing the piano, not serious mathematics! Then I got over the idea that it wasn’t my idea,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
with ideas on how to fix the problem. Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform by Meg Rithmire (Cambridge University Press) Assistant Professor Rithmire explores the political logic of Chinese... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
take advantage of other people’s knowhow and not reinvent the wheel,” says Jones, poised and congenial. “But I’ve seen the power and raw energy that comes with a fresh perspective.” In 1989, the summer after her sophomore year at Stanford, Jones and three fellow... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
internship at Edelman. Lex has the energy and vision that takes ideas that are just nuggets and turns them into reality.” Given his thoughtful approach, initiative, and passion for the mission, Goldman asked Suvanto to join LEDA’s board,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
soon change rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it would later that spring,” says Diagne. “I had no idea that it would turn into a pandemic-response and economic-recovery role.” He took the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
those living in different ways and places. Acknowledging that no one gets a free pass when it comes to climate change, Lassiter said alumni must continue to exchange and act on those novel ideas critical for securing a climate-stable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
social change in Latin America, the SEKN expects the organization to create a long-term forum for ideas between partner universities. “We're facilitators,” Reficco says. “We want to show that social enterprise can work — that this is not... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
didn't really believe that sexism in the workplace existed, and then we went to that meeting, and it was just shocking to me. And so we've had a lot of interesting experiences since we started pymetrics, and I think it's just brought home the View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
challenge? Using a tool called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Speed & Scale offers an unprecedented global plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late. Used by Google, Bono’s ONE foundation, and thousands of startups the world over, OKRs have scaled... View Details