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With the advantage of hindsight, this year's recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award offer some words of wisdom and key takeaways from their HBS experience
Recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Award describe a time when life put them to the test—and what came out of it
Bright Horizons CEO Stephen Kramer (MBA 1997) on what modern parents really want from their workplace
Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) shares personal anecdotes and life lessons from his collaboration with the late finance icon Byron Wien (MBA 1956)
How Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, is making joy a priority in his community—and what his work can teach every organization
Michael Horn (MBA 2006) and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein—coauthors of the new book Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career—on how to make sure your next career move is the right one
Former Continental Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the airline industry
More than half of college grads are underemployed. In this excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, Stephen Moret (MBA 2011) discusses the root causes of this trend—and what policymakers and the private sector can do to address it.
How Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) helped end a bitter, decades-long conflict between loggers, environmentalists, government officials, and First Nations
Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) on what it will really take to adapt to the realities of climate change
Author and producer Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) on how his show Geek Girl became a Netflix hit—and what it tells us about success in the streaming era
Baskits president and CEO Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007) on the tactics and the trials of her “acquisition entrepreneurship” journey
John Levy (MBA 1979) thinks his startup can make quantum computing an accessible superpower for business—and he is racing tech's biggest names to make a long-promised future a reality
COO Jen Wong (MBA 2004) on how she grew revenues without compromising community
Adventurer Sunny Stroeer (MBA 2011) is always hunting for her limit. Would she find it while skiing 1,000 miles through the Alaskan wilderness?
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) on the rules of real talk
Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award share takeaways from early experiences in the working world
Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award reflect on how their early life shaped them—personally and professionally
Space entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purpose
Born in Korea, Michael Kim (MBA 1990) spent his formative years in the US. As his novel ‘Offerings' heads for the big screen, Asia's “godfather of private equity” reflects on time, legacy, duty, and the unexpected connections between fiction and finance.
Cancer will impact nearly one in two people in their lifetime. Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) has battled it twice—and has lessons for anyone in the fight.
Author Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) on how companies can tackle complex issues with essential speed
Entrepreneur and author Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) on how to look before you leap
Insights from the dating world with professional matchmaker Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993)
Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones, a Marine Corps veteran, on managing through a school shooting crisis—and what it takes to turnaround a city
Alumni reflect on the like-minded cofounders, life-changing professors, and lifelong partners they met on campus.
In this excerpt from the HBS podcast Climate Rising, Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) discusses the business plan behind her sustainable spending app.
In a new book, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times
Chris Marinak (MBA 2008), Chief Operations and Strategy Officer at Major League Baseball, on building and nurturing an organizational culture of innovation—and what his experience at MLB can teach any business leader. (Recorded live at Spring Reunions.)
Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award offer their take on the tricky topic of managing personal and professional responsibilities
Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award describe when things didn't go according to plan—and how those painful experiences were ultimately a good thing
From the Bulletin: When she came back to Egypt five years ago, investor Amal Enan (MBA 2014) embraced the chaos—and found a path to impact her country's future
In this excerpt from HBS's Managing the Future of Work podcast, Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (MBA 2015) offers a lesson plan for the American education system
This is the third and final episode of Clearing the Air, our mini-series on carbon capture. In this episode, we look at some of the potential uses for captured carbon—including a startup employing nature's C02 recycling model—and the necessity of sweeping, speedy scaling.
This is the second episode of our Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. In this episode we're headed to the Carbon Capture Inc.'s headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, where the company's first prototype was built. And to Southwest Wyoming where the company is planning the first large-scale direct-air capture facility in the United States.
This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon capture, a technology that could help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an industry that has attracted several billion dollars of government and investor capital in just the last few years. But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which means that all of these promising new ideas need to launch and scale quickly. This series will take you inside the world of carbon capture, guided by innovators and experts at the forefront of the movement who will help you understand what is possible.
HBS Executive Fellow Bill George and Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), an author and motivational speaker, on the transformational power of crucibles
From the HBS Alumni Bulletin: Taylor Keen's Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can protect the planet's soil—one garden at a time.
Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) helps working parents hit the reset button, post-COVID—and offers practical advice for moving forward on an even keel at home and in the office
Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) on the promise of the new longevity economy
Professor Ranjay Gulati on the messy but transformational pursuit of purpose
2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) on his journey from Depression-era Nebraska to a 2020 Nobel Prize
2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) had just stepped off his last board when he was called on for a different sort of service: revitalizing the oldest African American-owned business in north Minneapolis.
2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Tosh Barron (MBA 1972) describes her experience as a pioneering woman in the board room, the elements of effective corporate governance, and what to look for when seeking a board role
Sal Khan's ambition for Khan Academy: Empower billions of learners and provide a safety net for education systems around the world
In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her second act as chairman and founder of the India Sanitation Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India's water quality and health outcomes.
Naveen Tewari, founder of InMobi and now Glance, is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia—not just powered by it
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