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Portrait Project

Jason Gurwin

unpredictable twists and turns. But in my life, what excites me most is the potential to inspire others, to encourage those who are too scared of the ride to at least get in line. Because for me, no matter the ups and the downs, the... View Details

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How Sharing Smart Ideas on Social Can Boost Sales | Working Knowledge

from high-performing units can boost sales and encourage others to share their ideas. Retailers exposed to posts featuring real success stories through employee-only enterprise social media networks increased their sales growth more... View Details

Portrait Project

Kristen Forecki

kindness are the moments when I have discovered my own greatest strength. By simply comforting a loved one, befriending a lonely classmate, or encouraging others to believe in themselves — as my director View Details

31 Jan 2018
Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

encouraged to apply the same entrepreneurial spirit to her development as she would bring to her management style. “I identified the areas I wanted to grow in,” she says, “then solicited mentors on how to manage larger teams.” “I came... View Details

Keywords: Technology

13 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge

& Life Sciences; and the Open Track for ventures that transcend categories. For this upcoming 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge, we’re focused on “staying curious” about the future and designing for more human ventures, experiences, and interactions across the... View Details

22 Sep 2016
News

Words and Pictures

lives and encourages project participants to think of their reflections as a guidepost, not a prescription. “To put it in HBS terms, it is a balance sheet—i.e., a specific view of a snapshot in time; not an income statement, i.e. a view... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 May 2013
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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 Mar 2006
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HBS at 100: School to Celebrate Centennial

face in the decades ahead.” Whatever their proximity to Soldiers Field, alumni are encouraged to contribute ideas on how to celebrate the School’s centennial, both on- and off-campus. To offer your thoughts, visit www.hbs.edu/hbs100, send... View Details

Keywords: Centennial

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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA

Search Fund Fellowship Thanks to the generosity of Catherine James Paglia (MBA 1976), the Search Fund Fellowship is a program designed to enable graduating students from all socio-economic backgrounds to pursue a self-funded search and to View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope

Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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The Power of Philanthropy

encourage others to do the same” as President Drew Faust and her team “guide the University forward” (Boston Globe, March 20, 2012). Now head of Belmont Capital, O’Donnell is a former dean of students at HBS, a recipient of the HBS Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Mar 2020
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CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis

again now,” she says. “There are so many ways people stay connected with the School and this is just one of them.” Fitzpatrick encourages alumni who know of employment or internship opportunities for students to email cpd@hbs.edu, and if... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship

Hart also serves as faculty director of the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 initiative at HBS that was created to encourage the inclusion of more female protagonists in business cases. She is faculty coordinator of the Entrepreneurship... View Details

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

graphic description of what he believes happens. “People notice what happens to owners And when owners are not promoted, groomed, and are fired for irrelevant reasons, many prospective owners learn to keep a barrier between the job and themselves.” There were... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

developing research experience in economics alongside my work in Law. I applied to HBS because I knew the program would provide a high-level of training in economics research in an environment that that encourages applying knowledge to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Smartphones Get Smarter

occasion to reveal that Doerr’s firm has created a $100 million “iFund” to encourage programmers to develop all manner of software, from games to business, for the iPhone; Kleiner Perkins will back promising new iPhone ideas and the... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Profile

Ann Chao

second year at HBS, I will be Chief Creative Officer for this club and hope to encourage more creative collaborations among HBS students and start conversations about bridging business and creative aspects of the industry. The Christian... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

an ambitious global agenda for growth and greater transparency. His goal of listing the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was realized in 1998. Changes to the company’s retirement policy encouraged a more performance-oriented culture,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

encourages others to do it), modularity and openness (determining the ease with which outside complementors can "hitch their wagons" to the platform), balance (between competition and collaboration with producers of... View Details