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16 Jan 2025
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Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future

leaders I most admired often had interdisciplinary backgrounds. Around the same time, I realized I wanted to explore new industries and expand my skill set. HBS’s focus on leadership and its commitment to... View Details

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

04 Mar 2013
News

Young entrepreneurs sell Pushpins app to retail giant

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

The more pressure you put on money managers for near-term performance, the more short-term their focus becomes. And the more pressure Wall Street puts on corporate America to deliver strong short-term performance, the more myopic the underlying businesses become. A big... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

22 Jan 2020
News

What It Takes

Most of that stuff, when you're young, is in sports. I was very fortunate. I was a very good athlete. In particular, a very fast runner, and I literally enjoyed using that skill in different settings. I liked winning. It's like a habit.... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Profile

Tafadzwa Samushonga

from agriculture to financial services, my perspective shifted.” As she progressed along this path, she also began to complement her experience as a strategy advisor with new skills in operational management. “I felt that if I truly... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Brandon Gayle

management skills that would help me truly drive change in organizations." That need led back to Bain, then to HBS. "The case method is special in ways I can only begin to describe," Brandon says. "I'm forced to make... View Details

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2007
News

Daniel Vasella

this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland. The merger put... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

Case 614-063 Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A) In 2006, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals was a fast-growing biotechnology company. Its leadership team was divided over whether to keep R&D organized in functional departments or transition... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Most frequently involved were the emergency department, medical/surgical, operating room, and post-anesthesia care units, but some hospitals also included labs, the pharmacy, or medical records. The senior leadership teams engaged in MWRA... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

gender itself is not a good predictor of negotiation performance. Gender differences appear when guidelines for negotiation are ambiguous and environmental triggers are present—such as the number of women in leadership positions—that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

May 2024
Supplement

gWorks (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details

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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

is the voice that reminds people that the tools of leadership and management can be used to create tremendous positive change in the world. It's a reminder that there are a myriad of ways to do well while doing good, and that the world's... View Details

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

violinists ever, is extremely skilled in speaking about what he does. Talking with him at length for the case allowed us to unpack the process of innovation and the process of creative leadership. It was an opportunity to explore the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

while discussing her decision to not seek a co-founder, how she looks for complementary skills in her leadership team, and why she sees her career coach as crucial to her success. Cheek also discussed the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

things differently. Stacey and I say that our differences are our superpower, and I think that idea has never been more important. We met during Leadership Atlanta, which was a unique experience because we got to know each other in the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

enter with its innovative technology. Christina Belsito (MBA 2019), Vice President of Business Operations, along with the Mori leadership team, knew the mountain of work ahead for the newly formed division, and bringing on a summer intern... View Details

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