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monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded middle school, and served as View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
virus. “They created products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in-person gatherings aren’t possible,” explains Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
case-by-case basis. Still, the company was wary of a blanket policy. “We saw many companies rolling out one-day-a-week or fully remote policies—extreme options with complicated rules that often defeat the purpose of flexibility,” says Kim Williams, Credigy’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) The COVID-19 pandemic has necessarily thrust online learning to the forefront. As executive director of HBS Online—which has reached more than 70,000 learners in 170 countries since... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
organization while keeping his day job as a vice president at Honeywell Corporation. He and the leadership team, which included Peterson and fellow former Olympic committee member Phil Bardos, put together a board of directors and started... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
managing director at Bain Capital. “It’s so incredibly important to the future of Harvard, the city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts. When John Paulson made his transformative gift, the light underneath the project really... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
database architecture, including company, faculty, student, and alumni information, MBA Career Services plans to put its services online to make them more accessible, efficient, and customer-oriented. "In the next few years," says Kirsten Moss, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
a series established by Dean Kim B. Clark to increase awareness of HBS faculty research and to encourage cross-unit collaboration and discussion at the School. Roberto de Mendoza (MBA '74), vice chairman and director of J.P. Morgan & Co.,... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
director and writer J.C. Chandor pretty much from the ground up. Picking films is very much an art, more than a science. One of the great things about film festivals is you get a sense of what audiences, including journalists, think.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
been successful," says Boris Groysberg, the Richard B. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who cowrote the case with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb. "It also... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
premier brands such as Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, and Vacheron Constantin. Thomke and coauthor Daniela Beyersdorfer, associate director of the Harvard Business School Europe Research Center, had unfettered access to the usually... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director of the Harvard University... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
directors concentrating their attention on leadership behaviors that, at least in theory, should provide the basis for long-term performance rather than the behaviors exhibited by many leaders who are short-term optimizers and well... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
says Rose, who grew up in the Bay Area. "People are afraid that this special culture in this special place could get lost." Wealth And Culture Rose tackles these tensions in a new case study, San Francisco, 2015 #tech #inequality, cowritten with HBS... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
leadership. This week, Kanter sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss how these same reasons might hinder corporate adoption of Windows 8. 1. Loss of Control—Unsolicited change naturally meddles with autonomy, and the world's IT View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
Once upon a time, there were two kinds of businesses. On the one hand, there were public and privately owned companies such as those that existed in Western-style democracies, which had boards of directors and accountability to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and View Details