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- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
Cooper’s forward-looking approach doesn’t exclude further adventures, either. He is passionate about food and often jokes that his next move will be to attend culinary school. “It is said that a man’s life has three stages—one to learn,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Bright Idea #5 A Toolkit for Teachers Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) Doug Lemov is passionate about "getting teachers to teach better faster" by helping them use best-practice classroom techniques to engage with students. And teachers eat it up:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
he would hold for thirteen years. Focusing on Third World development, he enlarged the Bank’s staff and loan portfolio, boosted infrastructure projects, promoted agriculture’s “green revolution,” and emphasized poverty reduction. Today, McNamara devotes himself to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
control during the change process. Highlights The Link Between Personal and Organizational Renewal Innovability Staying Uncomfortable Show Hide Details Concepts Organizational and Personal Renewal Leading Punctuated Change Personal Case Project Featured Exercises... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding. Ultimately, this renewed View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
parents a break, and here I am,” he says. “Who’s doing that today for people who don’t speak English, who aren’t white? Education is a deep passion of mine.” Lessons learned: “My mother was a schoolteacher, so you did not misspeak ‘good’... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
hairdryer, and a fully stocked bar, to name a few amenities). Fine wines and gourmet cuisine featuring fresh, local in-gredients like lobster and passion fruit are standard fare, as are on-demand activities that run from deep-sea fishing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Business School career path." Most (61 percent) responded that they intend to pursue careers involving very different goals and structures. According to one alumna, "I want flexibility. No more than 9 hours a day. [I want] work that is challenging and that I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
more flexibility.” Claudine Gartenberg (MBA 2006, DBA 2011) had envisioned a career in academia, but expected it to be in physics, her undergraduate major at Harvard. But she didn’t feel a strong enough passion for the field. After seven... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-012 Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space (A) Jeff Bezos, six years after starting a revolution in retailing with Amazon.com, turned his life-long passion... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
joining to simply find a job. The senior TSA staff and airlines are calling for accountability, but the person responsible for the breach is a passionate and valued employee who has been with TSA since its formation. As her shift... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
that her most enjoyable moments were spent counseling a friend on her dating life. So she combined that passion with her business acumen and wrote the 2003 best-seller Find a Husband after 35: Using What I Learned at Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
than an effort to boost magazine and newspaper sales, with little foundation in what’s really important to know about a school. What do you do in your spare time, if you have any? Sailing is an early passion that I continue to enjoy. When... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
the things you're passionate about. For some of us, it may be maybe you suffered abuse or something and you want to help other people who were survivors of that. In my case it's really wanting to help people that have suffered business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
more efficient process. The big companies, notes Williams, are too big; innovation, he says—particularly these kinds of radically reengineered and modified models—is the province of smaller companies. And groups like the Secklers have the View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
programs can get started by first talking to employees, customers, and board members to discover issues they may feel passionate about, whether it's the environment, hunger relief, or the arts. Once the company has a short list of ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and applied for officer training,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
She was in the life-fulfillment business. “Yes, we improved their chances of getting a job, but I wanted to offer more than that,” she explains. “I wanted to give them the confidence to go out and get a job. We had to be passionate about... View Details