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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
of her female classmates are now stay-at-home moms. “It’s great if that’s their goal and choice,” she comments. “But I believe many make that decision because they think there are no other options. It’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Assistant Professor Mukunda examines the forces involved when leaders really make a difference. He explains which leaders matter and what lessons can be learned from them. The book’s profiles of leaders, from Abraham Lincoln to Judah... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
decisions about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. An Introduction to Real Estate Finance by Edward A. Glickman (MBA 1981) (Academic Press) This textbook for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Cause Great Firms to Fail, addresses this phenomenon. Thus, newly entering startups, whose flexibility enables them to make decisions quickly, often have an advantage over the more established operations... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
would be reflecting on the success of another sold-out Global Alumni Conference (GAC), but as many of you already know, we made a very difficult decision to cancel the conference scheduled for March in Buenos Aires. We extend our deepest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
brave decision to stand and fight this disease, which, if unchecked, will allow him only a few more years of life. With humility and courage, he has shown his classmates and the world that one doesn’t have to wait to View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
and digital world, to seek business opportunities in new technologies, to lead across differences, and to build sustainable businesses." The Dean also made note of ways the School is making the MBA Program more accessible and affordable... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
tremendous violence—not just poverty, but also narco-terrorism, notorious corruption, high murder rates. These children make their own way from Central America through Mexico and they arrive at the southern border of United States alone.”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches initially lose substantial sums of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
topic. “I didn’t feel like I had developed that muscle of saying ‘yes’ enough,” he explains by phone from Acumen’s New York office. “One of the things I learned is how expressive and personal philanthropy is, and that no matter how smart or analytical a donor may be,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
reusable, highly safe, and can make many repeated dives to anywhere on the bottom of the ocean,” Vescovo says. “There’s no restriction anymore.” (He won’t discuss the total costs of this expedition, but the announced price tag of the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
over the next 25 years did not deter Deza. Nor did HBS’s rejection of her application, in 1998, for the OPM program, on the grounds that her venture wasn’t big enough. Instead, she traveled to Boston to make a personal appeal and then was... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
doesn’t really keep me up. I have a terrific group of colleagues, and I never make a decision alone. There’s so much intelligence and integrity here that I have complete confidence in what we do. Of course I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
illogical collective decisions we make.” —Dante Disparte (PLDA 6, 2009), founder and CEO, Risk Cooperative Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng “What I love about this novel—particularly given the amount of time I spend thinking about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
increase the restaurant’s hours of operation. But “fixing” elBulli turns it into just another restaurant, says Norton: “The things that make it inefficient are part of what makes it so valuable to people.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
why the MBA Oath is necessary and shows how it can be applied in the real world. Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky (MBA ’08) (Portfolio) After interviewing hundreds of especially... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
everything he did, he was a true servant leader.” Light joined the HBS faculty in 1970 after earning his doctorate from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory. Just two years into his appointment, he was the first faculty... View Details