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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
opportunities they never thought they could.” Sheila Kyarisiima (MBA/MPA 2017) Affording MBA Students the Luxury of Choice When Liang Wu (MBA 2018) talks about being interested in entrepreneurship, he draws parallels to his experience as... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
detail. “Everything seems so obvious when it’s written down in condensed narrative format with accompanying exhibits,” she says later, calling the experience of listening to two years of her life boiled down to a 70-minute discussion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela. Video Embed Jim Aisner: What are the most important lessons you learned from your trip to India? John Macomber: I learned things on a personal level as well as lessons relevant to my interests in finance and planning in the... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Download Thomas J. Tierney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, San Francisco, California 1976 Earns BA, Economics, University of California, Davis 1976 Joins Bechtel International, Algeria, Field... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
September 18, 2003) also emerged from HBS? Donald Davidson (MBA ’42), a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former president of the American Philosophical Association, died last August at the age of 86. Davidson deeply influenced the View Details
- 14 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Liberal Arts Major Pursues an MBA
the opportunity to strengthen their less developed skills in Excel, finance, and accounting. While there were piecemeal trainings offered during my time at HBS, the programs have now been condensed into a preparatory online experience... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Importance of Philanthropy
collaborations, or wherever needed most. Examples of donor Impact Enabling New Modes of Learning FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development): Introduced in the MBA Program in 2011, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
a quiet smile from my father, I suspect. More recently I’ve written 2 books, 10 peer-reviewed articles for scholarly journals, and more than 30 opinion pieces and essays in the fields of education and human development. Recently, I helped... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
Do future MBAs emerge from the womb with business card in hand? Greet their preschool pals with a firm, not fishy, handshake? HBS alumni so frequently mention the lifelong benefits of connections made at Soldiers Field that I’ve always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
Harvard Business School has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of its Leadership Fellows Program. The program is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with cross-sector experience who... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Mercer Management Consulting, Sloane joined the HBS faculty in 1991 after a thirty-year career in the field of management consulting. In the MBA curriculum, Sloane taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior, General Management, and... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
them would just give up in the latter half, because there was no way they could make quota.” An ideal setting for a field experiment The retailer was an ideal setting for a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Behrad Mahdi
Nigerian economy, we're always building a kind of leadership intuition." For Behrad, the experience is similar to his track and field exercises in high school. "Every day, the coaches would make us... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
Harvard Business School: 1962–2012" delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as protaganist Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now when... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
reelection campaigns in West Virginia. Garth was a bit of a pioneer in the field of political consulting. I also worked at NBC, and then decided with all the changes in that industry I’d better get a grounding in business. I liked opening... View Details