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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
husband, an importer of automobile parts, began considering some big changes. Beilharz quit her job to care for her first child and stayed home as her brood grew to four — now ages 9 through 18. In 1998, the family left Austin for an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
four years after the current president leaves office will be among the most consequential we’re going to live through. The decisions we make, or don’t make, will be of enormous importance to American history for the course of the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
making decisions based on imperfect information,” he recalls, adding that it was important to keep an open mind and be willing to change one’s opinion. The kind of decision-making skills and flexibility that Sullivan learned through the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
Stanford and now University of California. And she has shown and posited a model for happiness that I believe in. This is going to answer the question. And she says that, first of all, happiness is the joy you feel while striving towards your potential. That's an View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could lead them to ignore what seemed to be the most View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
filter into their retirement. “One thing that my family drilled into me at a super-young age was the importance of education,” says Akuete. She was lucky, she notes, having won the “geographic lottery” simply by being born in the States... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
aired on YouTube. Throughout the crisis, the HBS Fund has been essential—enabling the School to deploy resources quickly wherever they are needed most. That flexibility has always been a hallmark of the HBS Fund, and it’s what makes gifts to the HBS Fund more View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired. In these markets, the most important thing is to be first, to win that Cadillac. If you’re not that leader, there’s little room to build a great business. If someone were to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
critical perspective of an outsider who sees the need for real change. Building inside-outsiders means managing succession to bring to the fore leaders who will challenge their strategic inheritance. Since succession planning is so View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
the underserved. “I’ve been blessed, and I believe very strongly in the importance of giving.” Smart money: The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, a new World Bank financial program that provides surge funding to prevent a disease... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
fundamental importance of education to the future of the individual and the community, he stressed the value of very early education (from prenatal to age three), teacher/principal development and training, and mentoring relationships for... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
medium, and large clubs and that are sustainable for the long term. In addition to these committees, ad hoc groups are undertaking important tasks. In particular, the Global Alumni Conferences committee is charged with keeping current... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
to see the School move forward on an effort to take — I hope — a leadership position and promote discussion and action on some of the most critical problems facing the world in the 21st century. I hope you will focus a major part of your efforts on developing answers... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
fall short, but it’s an important idea that resounds to this day. One of the particular things that the founders did back in the 1990s that turned out to be very important was to put focus on social... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
your lives. We can achieve this goal most completely when you join us.Our task is to make ourselves and the School more relevant in your lives. We can achieve this goal most completely when you join us. Any of these roles is proof that you see the View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
tuition. “They said, ‘We’re not going to buy you a car but we are going to pay for your education.’ It wasn’t until I was older that I really understood the importance of that,” he says. An awareness of how challenging it is for students... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
really important, challenging problems is for me the single most important place to be investing in the next decade,” he said, adding he recently invested in Headspace, a company that provides guided meditation sessions online or through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers