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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because it would be hard to create View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
took a slightly different approach, noting that barriers to entry are not likely to become insurmountable. "As services proliferate, how do you figure out who you trust and who you do business with? Frankly, it's the same way you always... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
Enterprise Track Runner-Up A tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. SeaCycle Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) Social Enterprise... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advancing the cause of women’s leadership in business
Having broken barriers in her own career, Ilene Lang (AB 1965, MBA 1973) has made it her mission to help other women succeed in business. The retired CEO of Catalyst now serves as senior advisor of the global research and advisory firm,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaning in for a more equitable world
In her 2013 bestseller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg (AB 1991, MBA 1995) encourages women to be ambitious in their personal and professional lives, and to confront the external and internal barriers to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
men and women. In a panel discussion focused on how women approach money, Senior Lecturer and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Kristin Mugford pointed out that financial equality isn’t just about closing the pay and wealth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
growth dispelled the idea that something about the “nature of India” made rapid growth difficult. Broad-ranging reforms in the mid-1980s and early 1990s deregulated legal barriers to entry into many industries and greatly reduced View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
water.org has done that is perhaps distinct is try to very much focus on where the primary barriers are that exists between people and water and people and sanitation. And the biggest barrier that we've... View Details
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
clean irrigation. TestParty Michael Bervell (MBA 2024) Jason Tan Comprehensive platform to help companies get and stay ADA or EAA compliant based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Trans Health HQ Ivan Hsiao (MPH 2024) A tool built by the trans View Details
- Portrait Project
Jennifer Keedy Banks
that energy into creating positive changes Embracing challenges, disregarding perceptions Using my leadership and mentoring skills to encourage and support women in becoming leaders in business and in the community Taking the time to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
CPD on the Road in Manila
creation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the end of 2015. This attempt at regional economic integration should increase business opportunities and cross-border trade for the Philippines. In addition, English is an official... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Church, Virginia, with his wife and three children, “They told me, ‘Oh sorry, we’ve closed.’ The upside was that my severance paid for a new company.” That company was the Delve Group, which focused on branding and communications services... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
because of a perfect storm of their falling sales and weakened collateral, and growing risk aversion among lenders. Those days are not over. While lingering cyclical factors from the crisis may still be constraining access to bank credit, there are also structural... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others, I felt my own unlearning journey had been accelerated, and I wanted to better understand why there are barriers that prevent marginalized communities from... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
highways versus 5 million in the US—is a significant barrier to economic growth. His advocacy for developing a South American Riverways System to facilitate trade and transit in Colombia and neighboring countries dates to the mid-1990s,... View Details