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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
before I leave my office, so when I come in the next morning, I ask one question: What does success look like today? And I define that so that I have a sense of accomplishment by the end of that day. I am most at peace in church, when I... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
interesting thing -about the hospitality industry, it tends to attract people who actually have pretty strong values, pretty strong caring about others. And that's actually the number one predictor of who's successful in the hospitality... View Details
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George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About
transportation. He served on the HBS faculty for 38 years, including his term as Dean from 1962 to 1970. A successful fund-raiser who doubled the School’s endowment and added 22 new endowed professorships, Dean Baker provided skilled... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
articles, and books; and MBA courses and seminars such as Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, Business Leadership in the Social Sector, and Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise. Two Executive... View Details
- 21 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections
with the HKS Center for Public Leadership (CPL) accessible to the best and brightest students. The leadership of former CPL director David Gergen enabled the Joint Degree Program to work seamlessly with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Light applied to the MBA Program... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Pathfinder
of the more successful companies in the world,” Lesser told The Business Times of Singapore in a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the firm’s five decades of double-digit growth and evolution into digital solutions. Clients, he... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
of what the future might hold. For Kidwai, those dreams led to the United States, where in 1982, she became the first woman from India to graduate from HBS. But Kidwai always knew she wanted to return to help shape her country. Highlights from her long and extremely... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
Manager (TEM) Finance II Leadership & Corporate Accountability (LCA) FIELD Global Capstone The Purpose of the Firm The Summer Work Experience Students fulfill the requirement through successful completion of... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
your negotiations. But learning how to think about and structure the whole as well as its parts is an important step in mastering the art of negotiation. In any negotiation, successful improvisation rests on the skills of the players—the... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing opportunities for women to lead. “I think... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
help,” she says. A success to be sure, but the nonprofit world, Lisle quickly learned, was more complicated than the business world: “In the private sector, a customer pays and receives something, whether it be a product or a service. In... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
in debt. This book tells how he finally succeeded. After years of failures, LaMagna founded Tweezerman, one of the world’s most successful beauty tool manufacturers, with more than 40 million customers. The company became a View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
political leadership and negotiation skills with enabling Japan to join talks that could lead to one of the world’s largest trade deals. In addition to filling a succession of high-level posts in Japanese... View Details
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
When Alexander C. Crisses stepped up to cochair his 5th Reunion, he decided to couple his own ideas about what would appeal to his classmates with the tried-and-true strategies used by HBS alumni with experience leading their successful... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the heads of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also happened to serve as a director of a... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today!... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who have given to the HBS Fund for... View Details
- March 2024
- Case
Katharine Graham: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; News; Newspapers; Media; Gender; Publishing Industry
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Katharine Graham: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 124-035, March 2024.
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
forge matters. In reality, the art and practice of leadership are deeply personal for the leader and those being led. They are deeply personal because molecules are stirred when a leader has an interaction with another person. Energy is... View Details