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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
election process, from moving to a single primary ballot for all candidates to instituting nonpartisan redistricting. They also propose restructuring the governing process by aligning legislative and governance rules with the public... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
After a scheduled review of the five-year-old practice of admitting both September and January cohorts of each MBA class, the School has decided to admit all new MBA candidates in a single September entry date, beginning with students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
A Case For Fellowships
have worked outside their home country for three months or longer. In addition to ensuring that our doors are open to qualified candidates from all backgrounds, the fellowship program allows our graduates to pursue careers driven by... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
presentation by Harvard students and alumni represented many semesters—if not years—of work and study, according Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs. The Harvard Gazette reported that MBA View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Cronin... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful decision-making depends on a View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s record-breaking claims: a mock... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company use a search firm to talk with the prospective View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
techniques to analyze that data and build an algorithm that successfully predicted job fit while minimizing bias—matching candidates to the right jobs based on their traits and aptitudes, for example, without discriminating on the basis... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
math, and coached the track team, which he founded, to multiple Division III New England prep school championships. Ellison, who spent five years in the Marine Corps — he finished first in his class at Officers Candidate School — before... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
fundraising. And the super PAC With Honor, cofounded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009), was formed in November to support veterans running for office. It plans to spend around $30 million campaigning for 25 to 35 congressional candidates in 2018.... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those companies contend for View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
about "everyday leaders" that can be packaged in multimedia formats. A third project, led by Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral candidate Ellen Pruyne, examines how people develop the ability to envision a better future. What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
supporting early-stage technologies, enhancing their value, and making them attractive candidates for licensing, startup formation, and commercial development. The idea for the Blavatnik Fellows program resulted from conversations between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
Political candidates are often said to be marketed just like consumer products. But there’s a big difference. Consumer marketers such as Coke and Pepsi or Toyota and Ford focus on building up their brand, not on tearing down their... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
time identifying the reasons for underperformance. Such scrutiny would presumably help establish qualifications for a new leader. Instead, Khurana discovered, the candidate list, assembled primarily by board members, is implicitly limited... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
its barriers. For example, one general manager in the study learned from his staff's candid feedback during an OFP that his aversion to conflict was stifling communication and hindering his unit's ability to implement strategy. Upon... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
(MBA 1995), VP of the 2019 VDA. “These exceptional people are also involved in local development initiatives—social, educational, environmental—and their impact stretches internationally.” Since the VDA’s inception in 1989, more than 250 View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley