Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which,... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

school students) managed a $1 million budget, created and implemented a technology plan, and put an arts curriculum in place. At St. Mark's, Crotty realized she needed more business training and, inspired by Charles MacCormack, Save the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

give them the opportunity to build their businesses.” —Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) Back to top “Lisa Sherman” A successful executive at Verizon, Lisa Sherman is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After attending a diversity View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

(AMP 1999, 2021): My name is Kelly Mackey, AMP 2021. My favorite podcast has to be Deep Purpose by Ranjay Gulati. I read his book, I joined one of his classes last year, and it's been fantastic. So much so that my company is now leveraging his material to View Details

01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

has personally made a significant effort to share his good fortune with the community, creating a $5-million foundation to help inner-city youth with education and job training and establishing scholarships for the children of Polaris... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie

business became irresistible. "I knew I wanted formal training in the field so I could combine entrepreneurship with medicine," Okezie explains. With the encouragement of his HMS advisors, he submitted an application to HBS. Tackling the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics

nonprofit. The organization uses an evidence-based “graduation approach” that provides two years of support to help these women build new livelihoods and micro-enterprises. This includes supporting basic needs, setting up savings groups, providing financial and... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

a special limited partner at Greylock, began his career working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara (MBA 1939) in the 1960s. That experience left him with a deep appreciation for those in public service and for the value of business... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

schools. Next up is expansion into Sierra Leone, where 5,600 primary schools serve nearly 2 million children. “The solutions that we work with are particularly well-suited for the systemic challenges in sub-Saharan Africa: very large class sizes; huge teacher View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

technological aspects of business. They want to integrate the technical training and experience they have with a broader general management perspective to lead those businesses forward. I expect interest in these sectors to grow. How has... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

on where my kids went to school, was what drove a lot of these expectations and missed expectations, and, therefore, anger. And so as I kind of try and peel the onion on all this stuff, it is very, very difficult to pull back if you have View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

middle-skill career fields,” he says. Respiratory therapist Michelle Powell (above) trains Howard School students Rudy Vasquez and Junior Juan in how to take a blood pressure reading; below, Shakaya Finley and Jamesha Owens practice those... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2008
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A History of Women at HBS

SIGN ME UP: Registration at Baker Library in 1960 BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS The presence of female students on the HBS campus is no longer a novelty, but a new Centennial year exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center reveals a time in history when the... View Details

Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

back to society. I want them to be passionate about that, as well. William J. Kneisel Bill Kneisel grew up outside New Haven, Connecticut, graduated - like his father, brother, and sister - from Dartmouth, and went to work in Citibank's officer View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

20 Apr 2023
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On the Move: Anand Kini (MBA 1997)

initiatives. What’s your morning, pre-work routine? I have to start the day off with some kind of exercise—whether that’s going for a run or getting on the Peloton. It helps set my body and mind in the right place. I then use the train... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

Mitchell Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice and chair of the Required Curriculum in the MBA Program. Read more about From Chalkboards to Chatbots A large language model such as ChatGPT is a type of GenAI that is View Details