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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
inspired to enter the ministry in 1975. Since taking over the leadership of First Baptist in 1982, he has proven just what a community can accomplish through faith and determination. Operating from spartan offices in the church basement,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
and in September 2013 was named Australia’s first female Minister for Foreign Affairs, both positions she continued to hold after a sudden leadership shift in September 2015. Bishop’s diplomacy and savviness in negotiating this change was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager and sports director of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
experiences at an early age, due to either an illness of their own or that of a close relative. "My family was politically active," Slavin continues, "and I worked on health policy issues one summer in college for Congressman Ed Markey.... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
unemployment that peaked at 28 percent, while more than 44 percent of the population slipped below the poverty line. And violent protests.So many years of protest, much of it fueled by anti-austerity anger and the inherent tensions from years of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
the leadership of Faculty Chair Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. These events are an example of the many ways in which HBS convenes leaders to discuss important issues facing society. “When... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
later on.” “I’ve always believed a good deal is where both parties walk away thinking that they didn’t get everything they want, but they got a lot. and that means you can go back to the same person later on.” Bloomberg’s remarkable cross-sector View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
mainland China is on the verge of its own political awakening. “What is happening in Taiwan will have a great impact on China,” he predicts. Leave it to Jimmy Lai to want to be where change is happening the fastest — and where the risks... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
remains overlooked. The author provides an insightful view into differences between confidence and competence while also recommending several ways to address the issue of incompetence at the ‘top.’ It’s a relevant discussion for so many of us who have experienced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
writing in one of three lanes: the measures of a just political economy; the role of firms; and the roles of institutions and governments. The result is a wholly original and urgent new benchmark for the next stage of our democracy. View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
The 2005 HBS Global Leadership Forum in London proved to be a unique experience in ways that were planned — and even in some that were not — for nearly 600 alumni, faculty, and guests. By day, alumni listened to and learned from... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Frampton, and Minnick created the nonprofit Partnership for Responsible Growth to introduce the concept as a practical alternative to cut through the ideological divide. RELATED HARVARD LINKS Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative's 2015... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
sponsors, including Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. A traditional highlight of the conference is the presentation of awards to alumni in recognition of outstanding leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
example, many of them felt that their personal lives were scrutinized more than they should have been and that their mistakes were less tolerated than those of male leaders. They also felt that as women their leadership styles were... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in Japan and particularly for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
the Soviet Union. “I negotiated that when there were still tanks around the Lithuanian parliament,” he recalls. “The university’s mission is to promote democracy and civil society in a challenging part of the world,” he says. “LCC is a View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (photo by Robb Dickehut) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (photo by Robb Dickehut) “I had no idea how to write a book. Who does?” says author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006). “But the only way to do it is to do it.” Lemmon, a former View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
rise of political risk and the decline in institutional trust—Harari’s masterful treatise on the history of Homo sapiens outlines intrinsic drivers for the complex world we live in and the future we may yet inherit. Harari’s work comes... View Details
Keywords: April White