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- 17 Feb 2022
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A Big Bet
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997) and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Photos by Susan Young) When Google announced a $100 million fund to expand skills training and job placement programs for low-income Americans, two HBS alumni were standing by: Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997),...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
motivate and lead groups of people in ways that ignite their full creative potential. Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role by Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins (Harvard Business School Press) More companies than ever are looking to jump-start...
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- 09 Feb 2018
- News
Geoff Marietta: Making A Difference
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Raising the bar for financial literacy
Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is intent on making children financially and economically literate. As CEO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a New York–based national nonprofit, she trains more than 55,000 teachers nationwide annually, as well as provides them with...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- August 2001 (Revised June 2002)
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IBM Software Solutions (A)
By: Michael L. Tushman, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Robert Chapman Wood
Executives and managers of key IBM software units struggle to make IBM a top player in the post-mainframe era. When one software unit introduces a visionary product with potential to create a new leadership position for the firm, the result is an epic conflict in the...
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Business Units;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Conflict Management;
Information Technology Industry
Tushman, Michael L., Charles A. O'Reilly III, and Robert Chapman Wood. "IBM Software Solutions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-016, August 2001. (Revised June 2002.)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things...
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Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship
corporations, and federal agencies. Yearbook of International Organizations - detailed information on over 38,000 active international organizations from 300 countries and territories -...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Donham, Faust noted, wanted students to grasp “the relationship between their particular interests and broader social and economic structures.” He decided courses should be organized around functions—such as finance, marketing, and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
of the polar ice caps. Our world is squarely in a climate crisis and on the brink of a climate disaster. More than ever, we need a clear course of action. What if the goal-setting techniques that powered the rise of today’s most innovative View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
centered on developing more dynamic online resources, including an informative electronic newsletter and searchable, Web-based Class Notes embedded with e-mail hot links. Regarding delivery, the committee felt there should be more...
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John Hoffman
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
remarks by praising the Hong Kong Club's efforts in organizing the "hugely successful" Global Alumni Conference last April, noting that it had "set a new standard" for HBS alumni gatherings. Then mentioning the extraordinary changes that...
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Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
Detailed information on company professionals including relationships among firms/organizations and executives Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation - a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Takes One to Know One
Relations team in supporting and enabling our alumni and the School to continue making a difference in the world.” Cahill previously headed Alumni Marketing and Communications and Alumni Clubs and Associations within External Relations. She has worked with many...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Podolny: “As organizations have become flatter, those running them are looking for leaders who can see opportunities and address problems that cut across functional boundaries.” Even managers in large View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean’s Award
faculty and staff Service Leadership Fellows Launched in 2002, the HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program supports outstanding graduating HBS students committed to leadership in nonprofit and public-sector organizations through a one-year...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
had recently authored The New American Ideology, in which he argued that old ideas about individualism, property rights, and competition were increasingly irrelevant in a world of necessarily huge organizations and limited resources. The...
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- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) is the chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening public education through grants and advocacy. The foundation’s mission aims at ending...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
flagship program, the organization also offers a variety of programs for Boston youth and school organizations, including adventure-based programs for schools and community groups, internships for teens with career ambitions in the green...
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