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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
are entrepreneurs. The ability of the School to leverage its vast resources across the University will create both a world-class opportunity and a distinct competitive advantage in the field of entrepreneurship. This also provides another venue for our alumni with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
McDermott, and William M. Snyder, maintains that communities of practice — groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise — provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
competitiveness. Winners are selected by a committee made up of Japanese academics with expertise in competitive strategy from institutions such as Keio University, Kobe University, Tokyo University, and Hitotsubashi University. Prize... View Details
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- 14 Dec 2022
- News
Abby Falik on Global Citizen Year and Finding Purpose
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
Asalaam alekum (Peace be upon you) is the greeting and farewell heard everywhere in Sudan, even in the teeming refugee camps and villages to which millions of uprooted Sudanese have been chased by fear and death. In these places created and stalked by violence,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
Last December, David Wilkins (MBA 1990) admired the brilliant skyline of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with its color-changing buildings and holiday lighting. “I love when nighttime comes,” the former investment banker told the Rocky Mountain News (December 24, 2004).... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
Although HBS is widely known as a training ground for leaders of established firms, a new survey reveals that many MBAs are entrepreneurs too, with nearly half (49 percent) launching their own companies at some point in their careers. Once bitten by the entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria
they will be solved when people with expertise in a wide range of areas—from artificial intelligence to human behavior to medicine to finance—collaborate, each learning from the others as their collective imaginations coalesce into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Excitement Building for HBS Global Conference in Chicago
care, and creativity will draw on the expertise of HBS faculty and a distinguished group of practitioners noted for their entrepreneurial successes. "Recent research has shown that a large percentage of our alumni describe themselves as... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Lori W. Samuels & Theodore R. Samuels II, MBA 1981
For Ted Samuels and his wife, Lori, supporting the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) is an opportunity to encourage new directions for HBS, Harvard University, and the United States. “Historically, entrepreneurial expertise has not had a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
In Thoroughbred racing, no one knows for sure how to pick a champion. But after decades in the business, Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) is probably a better guesser than most. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York, Finley finds... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Sounds Like a Plan
BRENNEMAN: A fast way to make money. Rigorous, thorough analysis is the precursor of an effective business plan, right? Maybe not. In an interview about leadership in the New York Times (March 15, 2009), Greg Brenneman (MBA ’88), chairman of private-equity firm CCMP... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit
Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
Inspired by a family member’s experience with a lack of timely access to health care, Carlos Reines (MBA 2014) built RubiconMD make sure others get the medical expertise they need, when they need it. In this interview, he talks about how... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Middle Skills Gap Initiative Announced
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Gordon Celebrates a Century
Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) On July 21, Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) celebrated his 100th birthday with a group of about thirty family members and friends at Fishers Island, New York. In honor of the day and as a tribute to Gordon, a lifelong athlete who ran his first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother doesn’t know what I do,” he only... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)—including the nascent MS/MBA joint degree program—at a time, notes Sanjeev, “when leaders who have expertise across these domains are sorely... View Details