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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
example of what results when people from throughout the Harvard community come together to pursue their ideas. "Five years ago people weren’t really talking about an interdisciplinary curriculum," says Joseph J. O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971), a member of the Harvard...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
clients,” Treacy notes, adding the most important takeaway the company received from the NVC was retrospection. “The HBS competition was the first real opportunity I had to step back from the hectic day-to-day and really do some soul searching about Cobli’s View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
business strategy jointly. And it must agree as a group on an organizational vision for the new firm, as well as on which managers will occupy key positions and what should be expected of them." In contemplating mergers, View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
destroyed several square miles of the city feeds directly into the energy and vision required to start a new business, he said. (A hub for early-stage ventures located in the city’s Merchandise Mart is named 1871 for just that reason.)...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
amazing, profound experience.” —Stephanie Crimmins (MBA 2000) “I’ve been reflecting for some time on my core purpose and how that translates into a vision for the next phase of my professional and personal journey. As such, The Reflective...
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
assistant, Cynthia Liggon, puts it, "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." "I'm in the hope business," affirms Coverdale, who himself rose from the poor, rough-and-tumble world of the South Bronx as a youth to become one of the first African Americans...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
Carol Ahn Markowitz’s gambit was in trouble. It was mid-2013, two years after she and her songwriter husband had left their life in Los Angeles for New Orleans with visions of being part of the city’s post-Hurricane Katrina revival. But...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
program. The second, or transactional, stage begins when the organizations start to regard each other as partners. For City Year and Timberland, this transition occurred when leaders of both groups realized they had similar visions of how...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of purpose that those within an...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
along the value chain. “Everyone knows what a carbon footprint is,” she says. “The vision driving this work, which is ongoing, is to create a scalable methodology and framework that does the same thing for social and economic impacts.” In...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
in 2018 that crystalized the vision for Trey Athletes, which creates cohorts of student-athletes and introduces them to former athletes whose career paths can be models of success. Reynolds was building a new retail startup; Feickert was...
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April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
president and served for one year on the School's faculty. There's a lot of talk these days about corporate responsibility. What are a company's obligations to its stakeholders? A company's stakeholders should expect that the company will...
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- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
Carlos Ghosn, who touted to an HBS student audience the virtues of his company’s zero-emissions all-electric car, the Leaf. The CEO, his company, and its star product all embody the concepts of “global” and “thoroughly modern” to an extent few other View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an...
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Jill Radsken
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
Edelman’s corporate sponsorship model gives its employees the ability to work pro bono with sponsored clients. “Because of Lex’s leadership, our partnership is beyond the run-of-the-mill corporate-sponsorship model,” notes Goldman, “and...
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Maureen Harmon
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
rehearsing separately so far. As much as I’ve tried to connect the various groups and lay out a vision for every scene, it’s inevitable that everyone will have a slightly different idea of what it’s going to look like. Also, some of our...
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