Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

loves his work and his products. He eats ice cream every day — Dibs are his current passion. Which raises the inevitable question: What is his favorite flavor? “Vanilla,” he declares without hesitation. “All ice-cream people will tell you that,” which explains why he... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts

way I always try to balance things. JH: Ray McGuire (JD/MBA 1984) and his two brothers were raised by his grandparents and a single mother in Dayton, Ohio. Faith, family, and education were the building blocks of a decades-long career on... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

"considerable difficulty" in getting the magazine out on time, had cut the publication schedule to six times a year and set a subscription price of 75¢ a year, which was included in the $2 annual Alumni Association dues. Bates, who subsequently enjoyed a long and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

as they build new skills? That's what I love about a franchise in that I really can see the evolution of someone's career and help support the evolution of someone's career over the course of a minimum of 12... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

it might be a career path he could follow, too—but his father, knowing him well, suggested he work in a field where the results were more immediate. That guidance set Tewari on an entrepreneurial journey with no guarantees and plenty of... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

presidential commissions and has advised prominent government and company officials. During his career he has been a director of nine corporations, and he remains on the boards of two, including Ashland Inc. (formerly Ashland Oil), a... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

satisfaction creates greater customer retention. Workplace and career satisfaction improve employee attitudes, performance, and retention, reducing absenteeism, turnover, and the need for repeating costly investments in worker training."... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

behavior, the area where he has devoted his professional career at HBS. He also came to understand “how being an academic in many ways resembles being an entrepreneur, in that I have the opportunity to decide what ideas to pursue.”... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect

interested in supporting the project.” Spangler — whose multifaceted career spans banking, construction, real estate, and higher education — chose Class Day 1998 to announce that he and his wife, Meredith, had pledged their support for a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

great career to be an entrepreneur. It's something you do out of necessity if you haven't gotten a job in the other sectors. And that needs to change as a way to continue attracting the best talent, the best entrepreneurs that want to do... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

find valuable. No school is better positioned than we are to create a set of offerings that serve alumni throughout the arc of their careers and lives. Do you worry that the traditional, two-year, full-time MBA is losing relevance?... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began his Goldman View Details