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- 02 Dec 2020
- News
Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021
illustrations by Rose Wong Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness Invest in the New Abnormal Bounce Back from a Blunder Hit Pause Kill Groupthink Up Your Time Affluence Advance Racial Equity in the Office Embrace the Corona-Blur Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
Photo via the Baltimore Sun Photo via the Baltimore Sun There are no sure bets in Thoroughbred racing—but for many, the thrill of watching a horse thundering down the track far outweighs the risk of loss, whether the stake is a $2 bet or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
emotional. On the one hand, caregivers may feel joy and pleasure in feeling needed, in knowing they are helping someone they care about deeply. On the other hand, however, there can be feelings of “no control”—of simply not understanding how to help, where to step in,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
are always evolving.” Retail 101: “One of my longest-held jobs as a teenager was working in the menswear department at the local Sears. We all wore shirts and ties and knew our customers by name. Tough to watch it close, and a great... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
hiring people who were either underemployed or unemployed and then watching them thrive and build self-confidence and a better life. Creating the dignity of work and allowing people to provide needs for their loved ones is exhilarating.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
the hair down — things that business frowns upon. After the workweek ends on Friday, music is what you jack up on your car stereo as you head over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox humble those guys in pinstripes. Music and sports are... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
officials, and local organizations in a number of US cities to disseminate ideas and galvanize action at the regional level. Watch for announcements of upcoming events in early 2012. "Improving competitiveness is often seen as the job of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
Winning Smiles: BioMine CEO Privahini Bradoo with teammate and company VP Paolo Pacorini. Related Links Watch Privahini Bradoo talk about BioMine. Meet the 12 finalists (videos) Learn more about all twelve finalists View photos from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
development. In both, she watched as many qualified women were passed over for the promotions they had earned, were paid less than male colleagues in identical positions, and were disregarded and dismissed because they were female. “Great... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, a wide cross-section of faculty, alumni, students, and friends from across the University were joined by the Turner Construction team, Allston residents, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and other local representatives to... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
Chicago. About this program When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But going blind in his early 20’s didn’t stop him from living. Becoming an... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
his family. In the 1980s, Adem T. Bunkeddeko’s (MBA 2017) parents escaped from war-torn Uganda to a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Queens. There they raised their children and helped other friends and family acclimate to this new country. And in 2000, Amanda Loyola (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
MBA student. “On my first day, in the first-year marketing class, we had a complicated 70-page case on a silverware company, and we couldn’t make heads or tails of it,” he said. In class the next day, McFarlan watched the professor cold... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
occurred in 2020. “COVID-19 is a dreadful pandemic,” she says in the following discussion, “but it has turned everything upside down in the health care sector in some good ways.” What are the most interesting digital health care innovations to emerge in recent years? I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
of Michelle Wilson) Michelle Wilson (MBA 1992), Co-President, WWE (photo courtesy of Michelle Wilson) While the Superdome in New Orleans was hosting WWE’s WrestleMania 30 in April 2014, Michelle Wilson sat in the bowels of the stadium, View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
people who were all heavily involved in the company—investors, friends who had helped us in the past, and even some other Shark Tank companies who had been through the experience. So you were able to see the reaction in real-time as the show was airing. We were... View Details