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Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

Alumni WDYDWYD

Margaret Regan

thinking "I can do that!" My goal was to lead a meaning-filled life. My HBS MBA led to a real estate opportunity in Houston which led to another opportunity which led... View Details

06 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

Michael Ovitz

Ovitz founded and led one of the most successful talent agencies in Hollywood. By representing both scriptwriters and actors he was able to offer a unique service that often resulted in the packaging of the two talents. For the 20 years... View Details

Keywords: Services

Career Coach

Minal Mehta

the Head of Product Management for the Next Billion Users (NBU) Initiatives at YouTube as well as Google. During her tenure, she led the growth-focused product domain uniquely tailored to the needs of expanding global user markets. She... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Technology

Career Coach

Aaron Mitchell

and companies make unexpected connections to address challenges, broaden perspectives and redefine what prosperity means. He was recently the Director of HR for Netflix Animation, where he led HR for one of the largest and fastest growing... View Details

Stephen W. Sanger

Sanger began his tenure with General Mills in 1974. One of his early successes was the introduction of blue diamond marshmallows in Lucky Charms which resulted in a 15% increase in sales. During his CEO tenure, sales have increased at a rate of 6% compared to an... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Career Coach

Claire D'Silva

Claire led Strategic Business Development at Klarna before HBS and has previous experience in Strategy at Chase in New York. She led hiring for groups at both organizations and can provide insight into what... View Details

Portrait Project

Liz Delozier

invention after the managers in charge had given up. Fifty years later, I graduated from high school and the Fisher Plant was bulldozed after hundreds of layoffs. Grandpa’s pension evaporated. College now meant picking a major that would never leave me laid off. Yet... View Details

10 Jul 2016
News

Georgetown Dean Thomas Returns to Teaching

led the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS and was the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration. He also served as senior associate dean and director of faculty recruitment from 2005 to 2008. At Georgetown, Thomas is... View Details

Career Coach

Mark Hardie

earlier led new product innovation at Agero Inc., an automotive industry service provider. At Ipsos, Mark drove smartphone-based service innovation in the Futures Group. For six years at Nokia Inc., Mr. Hardie designed innovative mobile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2017
News

Research Brief: Lost in Translation

subtle language errors made by nonnative speakers of English in investor conference calls can be linked to literal dollars and cents in the marketplace. When top leaders fumbled with the language as they led impromptu Q&A sessions in... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

09 Jun 2020
News

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

In a recent post for HBS Working Knowledge, Howard Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus, and Shirley Spence, writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, detail how organizations led by HBS alumni are responding to the... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

Profile

Raghu Yarlagadda

lamps; to study, children have to sit close to these lamps, inhaling the fumes." A light bulb went on over Raghu’s head – an LED light bulb. “I realized that it wasn’t a difficult problem to fix,” Raghu says. As a side venture, he... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Finding a cure for cancer became a personal mission

Thai Lee (MBA 1985), president and CEO of SHI International, talks about how a family crisis led her to funding cancer research. (Published April 2014) View Details

Brittany Davis

Brittany is a General Partner at Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm, where she identifies and invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies led by underrepresented founders. She has led multiple... View Details

06 Apr 2022

2+2 Deferred Admissions Process: Application Q&A

Working on your 2+2 application and have questions? Join this Q&A led by Admissions representatives to get any last minute questions answered about the 2+2 deferred admissions application process. View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

and the brightest of the HBS faculty. This fall we tried something new and presented two Executive Education courses to returning alumni. Transitions and Transformations, led by HBS professor emeritus Carl Sloane, was offered to the Class... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

27 Feb 2019

Webinar hosted by Professor Alvarez, AASU and LASO

Led by Professor Alvarez, this webinar provides insight into the diverse community at HBS and will feature a student panel with members from the African American Student Union and Latino Student Organization. View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Finding a cure so that others may benefit

call. The foundation wanted to invest in for-profit bioscience companies to spur scientists to find a cure for the disease. O’Donnell is credited with almost singlehandedly raising $250 million in support of this venture philanthropy, which View Details

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