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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
luncheon were so moving, and they showed me how much this community cares for Jim, who was doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work before it was a thing. It made me feel empowered and excited to build upon Jim's legacy. Cash House has ignited our team’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement potential of all students, regardless of background or circumstance. Passion for another kind of far-reaching change... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
watch company, Hublot. The case examines the actions that Biver took to transform Blancpain and Omega, and how his broad vision ultimately transformed the entire Swiss watch industry. It presents Biver as a complex leader who at times could be very harsh on his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
in North America. Most recently they scaled part of the barren, rocky Andes between Chile and Argentina. The outdoors is their shared passion and where they feel most alive. It’s also their business. In 1998 Kim and Coup cofounded GoLite,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
because it is difficult for people to implement what they don’t understand. When Jim Balsillie (MBA 1989), cofounder of the Arctic Research Foundation, talks about the exploration of the Arctic shipwreck HMS Erebus, he uses grandiose terms. It’s not just some View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
words to share how outraged and disappointed I am by the continued extrajudicial killing of Black men and women. I feel a deep tension as I am inspired by the energy and passion of those that have gathered to stand together across the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
their aspiration. Over dinner, Seth spoke passionately to the group about capitalism and the responsibilities of business leaders. His words resonated with many and I am delighted to share them here, for all the School’s alumni, with his... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
access to funding. It wasn’t a startling, night-and-day change from the private to the nonprofit sector; it was more a normal, evolutionary process. Any successful organization starts with people with a gleam in their eye, who can get View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
impact. Having worked at Endeavor as an HBS Leadership Fellow after graduation, Ko had no doubt that she wanted to stay on past her fellowship year. “I really believe you need to be passionate about what you do. Being intimately involved... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
tremendous analogies here to corporate innovation. Q: The case describes tension between a driving creative passion and the lure of easy work. How did Paul Robertson and the group manage that conflict? A: The ensemble's dream was to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
to its—and Morocco’s—benefit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-049 Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
suited for a young, entrepreneurial organization. Start-up joiners need to do three things well: manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner. He then outlines four steps for choosing the right company: Pick a domain (find a field you’re View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
in seven years. Kewalramani quickly fulfilled her goal of being a "triple threat," working as a researcher, practicing physician, and instructor, but soon realized her true passion lay in making medicines to help patients. She joined... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
first daughter was eighteen months old, Ania Camargo and a former CSC Healthcare colleague founded Case Associates, a company that does short-term consulting projects. "We wanted to apply the skills we'd learned at CSC and do something that we felt really View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
member of the board of the National Venture Capital Association, Roberts knew the industry was gravitating to the San Francisco Bay area, to invest in the social media and software startups centered there. His specialty and passion was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
focused factory hospitals, one academic and the other a private, for-profit firm. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-121 Ensina! In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the business through personal relationships with clients. A passionate entrepreneur, his approach to growth-secure customers first, figure out how to make money later-was remarkably successful, if sometimes chaotic. Facing an increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
TV channel in the world makes it all worth it, however. "We hooked up MTV in Berlin in November 1989," he says. "Forty-eight hours later, the Wall fell." Coincidence? "All over the world, MTV does play a hand in the passion of the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
product.” And then, if you’re GE, you might feel a whole lot safer making a $20 million bet. Just as gearhead energy is crucial to propelling Local Motors’ new auto designs, the passion of the FirstBuild makers is key to pushing... View Details