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- 01 Jun 2001
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Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their own View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
to mitigate these risks to maximize the social return, and shed new light on what might have originally been a questionable business case. For young managers seeking to grow global careers, this implies several things: First, working in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane working conditions or social or... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
at Harvard in the second month of a yearlong program. They are drawing on the University’s academic environment to plan and prepare for field-based initiatives they will launch to confront global and local problems in areas such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
believe that the ideas the elite present are not universal and true but, in fact, are designed to serve their own interests. Why are we seeing a surge in populism? See more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s exploration of democracy-related... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
support, establishing contacts with leading CEOs in the region, and sharing expertise that comes from living and working in the Asian environment on a daily basis.” Under McFarlan’s guidance, seven new cases... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
tossed into landfills. So Eric Giler (MBA ’82) is working on a better plan: wireless technology in which devices are powered by electricity from remote energy-emitting coils. “It’s not electricity going through the air; it’s actually a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Howard Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations, emphasized the unique learning environment that exists in a classroom of “experienced” alumni students. Building on this knowledge, Breakthrough Insights is content-rich,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Middlebrooks, Gwen Shuster-Haynes, and John Weber in June 1983, while they were still MBA students. Checking in with them five years later, in June 1988, we discovered many ways in which their lives - and their perspectives on work and... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
from their mistakes. The conversation yielded a few other overarching ideas, says Meyer. “The future of any startup ecosystem depends on cultivating its talent and enabling it to succeed in the future of work,” he says. “And, for a government to be entrepreneurial, it... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
and opened just eight years ago, ASMS is a private school driven by the mission to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. “At the end of 5th grade, American students are... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
"That is a big mistake." Predictability allows everyone to know what the rules are, establishing an atmosphere of trust so that people can work together productively in an organization, Stevenson argues. Companies can provide more stable... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve this problem.” In April of this year, Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) launched Joro—an app that works like a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
guarantees that companies that come to Singapore will find a world-class infrastructure and a pro-business environment that features intellectual property rights protection and generous tax incentives. In Yeo's view, however, talent is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
Growing up, Steve Barger spent his summers picking crops in Oregon until he was old enough to work in the cannery his father ran. A graduate of Williams College, he has two children and is married to his hometown sweetheart. Barger is... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details