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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
market transformation in Sri Lanka. The YSP leadership team, comprising entirely of US-trained Sri Lankans, is united by a passion to support the country's post-conflict resurgence. While the investment banking market opportunity is... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
KRAUSS It's the lessons she's learned from life, not just as a businesswoman and a physician, that have allowed Dr. Marlene Krauss to see opportunities other venture investors missed. HBS taught Krauss (MBA 1967) how to lead and how to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
explains. Drawing on lessons from the practice of real-estate deal-making, Stevenson came up with his now famous definition of entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled.” That insight in turn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
cheaper) to manufacture in China. So depending on one’s perspective, China can be seen as both a challenge and an opportunity for U.S. manufacturing. For Sharpe and Katz, it is competitor and partner. As a competitor, there’s broad... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
organization's goals should be made with careful consideration. "An organization can endlessly dilute its boundaries around what it does, or it can determine if an unexpected opportunity might help advance its mission," says Ebrahim. "If... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
assumptions," notes Kaplan. "But I had never been able to persuade a provider to try a more innovative approach. The collaboration with Michael and MD Anderson was an ideal opportunity to change that." The pilot study at MD Anderson's... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
reasons why HBS decided to take a leadership role in organizing and implementing EDP. "The program has energetic CEO support in the person of Jim Wolfensohn, a focus on top-rank managers, and a global orientation," he explains. "It provides a splendid View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to date. He returned to Red Lobster as CEO in 2014, and in this episode of Skydeck, I talk to him about the challenges and opportunities he saw, how to lead during times of change, and why social responsibility is so important to both him... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
community and examined paths to success in the new economy. Held during the last weekend in February, the three-day event, titled “The Digital Dilemma: Challenges to Excelling in the New Economy,” gave participants an opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
“If you want to do one-to-one negotiations for the first part of the day, then meet in bigger groups, or maybe jump to a case room to debrief, the layout and furniture will let you make those transitions seamlessly. The hive is a design with infinite View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
decisions, and you're going to make those tough decisions and not shy away from that responsibility. Another thing I learned was there are very few opportunities. And sometimes we have to create those opportunities where we can really get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
and the networking opportunities it provides. But perhaps it could be supplemented by online learning—and perhaps that would reduce cost over time for students as well as institutions. AC: Some of the financial pressures stem from a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
you have to be reliant on others. And the reason why I bring this up is when we think about these hard, challenging memories, these moments that we all have in our lives, we have this opportunity to craft those. When you go into a hard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
of Business.) The mindset is equally useful in navigating business leadership, a career, or today’s climate of political polarization, the authors write. In the excerpt below, they explain how it’s increasingly possible—and even beneficial—to see the paradoxes as an... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Inventions at Georgia Tech’s ATDC incubator, with a mission to commercialize a set of scientific breakthroughs for improving silicon photovoltaics. Through his Freeing Energy Project, Nussey is writing a book to help people outside the industry understand the economic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
summer work experience," says Wheelwright. "They've had the same opportunity as their September classmates to find a great position, and they've expressed great satisfaction with this opportunity." Foundations Wheelwright notes that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
maybe even required by nonprofits for their board members. Both were smashing successes. These challenging programs — along with faculty presentations at the reunions and the annual Global Alumni Conferences — offer us a key opportunity... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
operate livestock breeding centers, improve soil systems, and create opportunities for a younger generation to take on farming. In Armenia, Heifer has been teaching farmers about pasture management as well as helping to develop an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
External Relations and the School's CFO, about the current "State of the School" regarding alumni outreach, fundraising, and current programmatic updates. We also heard about the School's response to the tragedies of September 11. Now more than ever, HBS and its alumni... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
attention has focused on clean energy and the climate crisis. In May, KPCB announced its second fund in green technology, bringing its total investment in green solutions to $1.2 billion. Doerr describes green tech as “the largest economic View Details