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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

joined Goldman Sachs, and in 1975 was the second person for GS in Japan and all of Asia, enabling GS to become one of the first six non-Japanese companies to hold a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He was recognized in 1998 by Newsweek... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and Professor Joe Lassiter discuss how to deliver reliable, clean, low cost power for people everywhere. Business and the Politics of Climate... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

in electrifying transportation by several metrics, including the number of public charging stations. We show that variation in the politics of coordination in... November–December 2024 Harvard Business Review How Robust Is Your Climate... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

the potential for leadership, but they haven't developed it." David Thomas believes leaders are "90 percent made, maybe even more." He says that people's leadership abilities are brought to the fore by their experiences in life, a concept... View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Caregiving Joseph Fuller Podcast The Caring Company Joseph Fuller & Sheila Marcelo 16 JAN 2019 | Managing the Future of Work Almost a third of workers—and more senior executives—say their careers have been adversely affected by caregiving... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

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

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level,... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

develop insights that drive impact. Activities include awarding fellowships, such as the Goldsmith Fellowship—established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959)—to encourage students from the... View Details

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The Caring Company

Future of Work Almost a third of workers—and more senior executives—say their careers have been adversely affected by caregiving obligations. As Joe explains to this episode’s guest host, HBS alum and... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

transient investors. This result is more pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in 'sin' industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2023 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when permission is given View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS Alumni News A New Chapter Joe Wolf (MBA 1999) is delivering transformative education in sub-Saharan Africa Re: Joe Wolf (MBA 1999); Michael Horn (MBA 2006); By: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Wildfire Communications, a telecommunications software venture backed by Matrix Partners and Greylock Management. From 1977 to 1994, Joe was a Vice President of Teradyne (NYSE/ automatic test equipment) and... View Details

09 Nov 2023
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The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the predicament faced View Details

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

focuses on helping mid-career women in the technology industry ascend to the next level. Photos by Michael Hanson When Kostova graduated from HBS, she believed that sexism was largely a relic of previous generations. But it didn’t take... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

material rewards of business. They will come if you first take care to match your abilities with the opportunities that are available." CURRENT READING When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, by David Maraniss When View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

of the Harvard Project on the Workforce and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He studies issues related to employment and income polarization and the relationship between talent and economic competitiveness. View Details

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Mental Health - MBA

Student & Academic Support (SAS) Mental Health Joe Coleman MBA 2018 "Mental illness is not a death sentence, but rather a surmountable obstacle on life's roller coaster." Katie Rydz MBA 2019 "I will not let mental illness define me. I... View Details

May 2006 (Revised July 2007)
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Tropos Networks

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind

As Ron Sege, president and CEO of Tropos Networks, walked through the halls of the firm's offices, he realized that the space they had moved into only about a year ago was already becoming too small. The company, based in Sunnyvale, California, was founded in late 2000... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Wireless Technology; Sunnyvale

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March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
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C12 Energy

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and James McQuade

C12 aimed to build not only a company, but an entire industry around carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). "You change the world by building a market, and you build a market by building a profitable company that other people copy," said Dawe, C12 Energy's CEO. "In... View Details