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 eraAv Harvard Business School

Baskits president and CEO Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007) on the tactics and the trials of her “acquisition entrepreneurship” journeyAv Harvard Business School

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 realityAv Harvard Business School

COO Jen Wong (MBA 2004) on how she grew revenues without compromising communityAv Harvard Business School

Adventurer Sunny Stroeer (MBA 2011) is always hunting for her limit. Would she find it while skiing 1,000 miles through the Alaskan wilderness?Av Harvard Business School

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) on the rules of real talkAv Harvard Business School

Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award share takeaways from early experiences in the working worldAv Harvard Business School

Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award reflect on how their early life shaped them—personally and professionallyAv Harvard Business School

Space entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purposeAv Harvard Business School

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.Av Harvard Business School

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.Av Harvard Business School

Author Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) on how companies can tackle complex issues with essential speedAv Harvard Business School

Alumni recommendations from the year in mediaAv Harvard Business School

Entrepreneur and author Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) on how to look before you leapAv Harvard Business School

Insights from the dating world with professional matchmaker Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993)Av Harvard Business School

Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones, a Marine Corps veteran, on managing through a school shooting crisis—and what it takes to turnaround a cityAv Harvard Business School

Alumni reflect on the like-minded cofounders, life-changing professors, and lifelong partners they met on campus.Av Harvard Business School

In this excerpt from the HBS podcast Climate Rising, Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) discusses the business plan behind her sustainable spending app.Av Harvard Business School

In a new book, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain timesAv Harvard Business School

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.)Av Harvard Business School

Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award offer their take on the tricky topic of managing personal and professional responsibilitiesAv Harvard Business School

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 thingAv Harvard Business School

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 futureAv Harvard Business School

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 systemAv Harvard Business School

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.Av Harvard Business School

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 S…

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 reus…

HBS Executive Fellow Bill George and Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016), an author and motivational speaker, on the transformational power of cruciblesAv Harvard Business School

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.Av Harvard Business School

Alumni offer their advice to current HBS studentsAv Harvard Business School

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 officeAv Harvard Business School

Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) on the promise of the new longevity economyAv Harvard Business School

Professor Ranjay Gulati on the messy but transformational pursuit of purposeAv Harvard Business School

2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) on his journey from Depression-era Nebraska to a 2020 Nobel PrizeAv Harvard Business School

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.Av Harvard Business School

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 roleAv Harvard Business School

Sal Khan’s ambition for Khan Academy: Empower billions of learners and provide a safety net for education systems around the worldAv Harvard Business School

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 …

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 itAv Harvard Business School

Anada Lakra’s startup helps non-native speakers master the art of the English languageAv Harvard Business School

How Walker & Dunlop CEO Willy Walker’s experience with anger management therapy transformed his life and careerAv Harvard Business School

Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running both private and public companies to serving on nonprofit boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about th…

In 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, with ratings agencies weighing whether or not to downgrade its stock, GE CEO Jeff Immelt made the decision to cut the company's annual dividend for the first time since 1938. It was gutting for Immelt. He knew the financial impact such a move would have not just on the company, but also on its retirees—…

When Jeff Immelt graduated from HBS in 1982, he had job offers from Morgan Stanley and Boston Consulting Group. But Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. His initial plan was to spend fiv…

On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Stephen Roger's daughter, Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the Black community was suffering and that he needed to talk to them-- that he needed to address the community as if he were the President of the United States. His daughter's plea led him to record a podcast t…

This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At the HBS reunions in 2019, the Skydeck team set up shop on Spangler lawn and asked alumni to share their secrets to a successful retirement. John Teeling, DBA 1979, who has started a number of Irish whiskey distilleries, hadn’t intended to sit and offer his advice, but his companion had other ideas. JOHN TEEL…

Three days before giving birth to her second daughter, Parul Somani (MBA 2009) felt a lump in her breast. Still unable to walk from her C-section, her husband wheeled her to the breast clinic for an ultrasound and biopsy. On her newborn’s one-week birthday, Somani learned she was in the early stages of a particularly invasive and aggressive form of…

Ed Hajim has had a legendary career in finance, including high-profile stints at E.F. Hutton and Lehman Brothers and 14 years leading Furman Selz. But his success came against very high odds, which Ed chronicles in his recent book, On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom.…

STEM Series: Engineering In this episode, panelists with background in Petroleum engineering joined together to talk about their hands-on experience in the field.

While Ken Friedman (MBA 1983) was at HBS, he and a group of about a dozen friends would get together regularly to play cards. The group vowed to continue to do so after graduation, and would hold annual weekend get-togethers to catch up. It became a brotherhood, Friedman says. But almost fifteen years ago, one of the members of that group was diagn…