Insights & Advice
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
Becca Carnahan
Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) discuss how they, along with Carter Lewis (MBA 2023) and their Anti-Racism Fund co-founders, transformed a GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization dedicated to making long-term change. [...]
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
Becca Carnahan
Neither Jeff Surette (MBA 2010) nor Mike Peters (MBA 2017) expected to be drafted onto a team with Tom Brady after business school. However, the perspectives, experience, and skills they each brought to the table were exactly what Tom Brady was looking for as he and his team grew TB12, the health and wellness company dedicated to helping people do what they love – better and for longer. [...]
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
In his Leadership Fellows position with the Detroit's Office of the Mayor, Nikhil Patel (MBA 2019) has seen firsthand the impact of COVID-19 on city initatives and priorities. Throughout it all, building community trust through effective communication and leadership have been crucial. [...]
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and suddenly Pasricha and her colleagues had to reorganize their functional priorities. [...]
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.”
Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law and business management in her home country, Israel, Noa became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want to call the shots myself.” [...]
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