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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
the faculty, no one wanted to teach a course whose utility and intellectual rigor were considered suspect in the academy, in an area that had no clear track for academic advancement or excellence. It was 1980, and McArthur knew that for... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
painful for those of us who don't like writing. As you can tell, I like talking. I like video. But writing is a very difficult task. It took me probably, off and on, over two years to write the book. Dan: You have this really long track... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
to ensure that resources are available to answer those questions. For more on the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection and other holdings in Baker Library’s Special Collections, visit www.library.hbs.edu/hc. 1. South Carolina, vol. 2, p. 263, R.G. Dun & Co. Collection. Scholars... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
already heavy load of volunteers. In addition, the committee discussed the challenge of providing regular visits by faculty to clubs. Again, working with the School, the committee was instrumental in codifying a system for tracking... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
distinguished career of more than thirty years. That first position gave her a variety of experiences, from line operations to staff management, and soon she was one of the first college-educated women to enter the company's fast track to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
hovered prohibitively high. The solution was to tap into the resources of tax-exempt universities, starting, they hoped, with Harvard, whose chief investment officer was a friend of Dan Gregory's. "After we had given numerous dog-and-pony shows, Harvard agreed that our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
been addressed, investors return to the markets, and the cycle continues. In light of this poor regulatory track record, we believe government-mandated reforms and more regulation alone cannot solve the current crisis of corporate... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
related story]. To support this work, we have created new processes and systems that will enable us to track protagonist demographics for all of our new cases. The plan also includes developing courses exploring racial equity issues... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
app with a cheap, cheerful, low-friction ethos. The items in the app’s feed are customized based on your online habits, no doubt leveraging the company’s strong technology around contextual ad targeting. The concept took off: Wish is now one of the top-ranked shopping... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
at Harvard designed to foster student startups. In 2021, the company was a finalist in the HBS New Venture Competition’s social enterprise track and participated in the Harvard i-lab’s Venture Program, where it was named a semifinalist in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
Rather than have talented engineers and scientists tracking down buckets for leaks, he wanted their focus to be where it should be: on advancing the important work of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers. Right off the bat, Stuckey identified two... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
faculty chair of the IWA Project and author of the 2022 book Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. “It’s very hard to have accountability about those claims, both externally and internally, without a valuation mechanism to View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
tools to provide direct operational support to election officials, tracked misinformation campaigns that undermine the integrity of US elections, and worked to fill the gap in poll workers and other election resources. (More information... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
software and approach to organization-wide data management and integration. “We help organizations develop a holistic view of their customers and operations by tracking and analyzing data gathered at multiple contact points, including... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
companies, complete and accurate patient data would help in screening participants in drug trials and make it possible to track and troubleshoot unexpected problems that show up after a drug is introduced into the general population, like... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
NGOs, on the ground. In addition, the company is releasing a new app, called Plus, that will increase customer engagement by tracking everything from production to distribution of the product they’ve sponsored. If they choose, the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
how to develop sustainable processes for finding great ideas, driving them toward commercial success, and tracking their impact in the market and on the firm's resources. Your factory needs four building blocks, the authors tell us: a... View Details