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- 12 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd
alumni. I spend a large part of my time in one-to-one coaching appointments. While the conversations often revolve around the finance and real estate industries, I’m happy to speak with any student or alumnus about anything. Conversations typically start with my... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
program partnership with health care providers, our public policy work, and more. It all rolls up to our mission of ending hunger together. And that’s what has gotten us through 2020: our mission. Mission... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
research, she spoke with various Entrepreneurs in Residence at the iLab. One of them, a venture capital investor, helped her get a handle on her ambitions by asking her a key question: “What are you most passionate about? When you wake up... View Details
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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement
I step into the next chapter of my career. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and work toward a future where healthcare is not a privilege, but a right—for everyone, everywhere. To the Harvard Health Care... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
were rolling on the floor, it was so ridiculously funny (and accurate). So one day, the professor comes in to teach his class. He starts out normal; all is fine. But back in those days, we had chalkboards that he could move View Details
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Marla Malcolm Beck
Growing up in Oakland, California, Beck was inspired by her father, a self-made real estate developer with a laudable work ethic. He never went to college, Beck said, but he became a successful entrepreneur through discipline and desire.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
built his business up that way, and he prospered. But everything came abruptly to an end in China during World War II. We could very easily have just faded to oblivion as a company, but my father took over, moved the company to Hong Kong,... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Art of Naming a Start-up
as an afterthought, caught our eye: “sonation.” Even before we looked up the definition, it sounded right. Its meaning made it even better. Sonation is the sound produced by birds not through their voice, but from other structures like... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
views, respecting their opinions, and acting on their needs and their wishes to the extent that it's possible. And the fifth category was a grab bag of things. But the most important aspect here was collaborating—that the team leader View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
Seven months later, I find myself living in San Francisco and riding to work in the back of a self-driving car. The Internship Search My internship search consisted of blindly trusting the advice that “the coolest internship postings pop View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
younger brother grew up speaking French and a smattering of Arabic. Cohen’s father, whose family traces its roots to the Syrian trading center of Aleppo, started a successful import/ export business at age 30. After the Suez Canal crisis... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix it, the city View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
revenue and growth, and every division’s key performance indicators on diversity roll up to the company’s balanced scorecard. Everyone gets paid out if the company meets its diversity goals. So if the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
You have access to a wider diversity of ideas than you ever had before. But it’s up to the consumer whether to take advantage of that. Facebook and Twitter don’t cause the filter bubble—even though they provide the tools that make it easy... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
says he loved the idea of boosting domestic energy production while recycling existing sources of CO2, because he had come to HBS looking to merge his interests in business, energy, and the environment. The son of a commercial fisherman, Dawe grew View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
economies, and accounting/control. Thanks to the support of our colleagues in Executive Education, this five-module program will be rolled out in New York City starting in January. The reunions subcommittee was chaired by Janet Clarke... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
rapid as possible. Step on the gas! —Randy Shayler (MBA 2012) Iron out the model first, then roll it out. Build national demand and reputation by executing flawlessly locally—solve a complex and broad problem well enough, and your... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The Bulletin caught View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
just-released first book, Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press), Venkatesan's recipe for success includes doing things that most managers and CEOs aren't trained to do, namely, getting on the ground and immersing themselves... View Details