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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
option of directing their support to any one of five key priorities: student financial aid, educational innovation, pathbreaking research, global understanding, and HBS-Harvard collaborations. How do smaller gifts make a difference?... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Antiquated Passenger Rail While the US freight rail system is among the best in the world, passenger service ranks 17th globally in annual passenger-miles of service. A 2013 commuter train crash in Connecticut revealed that 700,000 people... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
Photography by Brandon Patoc You think the traffic is bad where you live? Be glad you don’t live in London, where the average driver wastes 101 hours a year—the most of any city in Europe—stuck in traffic, according to the Traffic Scorecard from INRIX, a View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow, and banks in Nigeria just don’t... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
yet today, open up any major newspaper and the first thing you see are mechanical watch ads. The Swiss now own between 55 and 60 percent of the global market value for watches. They were able to redefine what it means to wear a Swiss... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named president and CEO of Skullcandy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
is now used to raise or grow feed for livestock. As Alvarez notes in the case, the United States alone is home to 90 million cattle. Each animal creates 65 pounds of waste a day, the processing of which contributes significantly to global... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
its competitive edge in the global economy, according to survey results revealed today at a press conference in the nation’s capital. Over the next three years, 71 percent of nearly 10,000 respondents expect the country’s competitive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
organization’s leaders have a perspective, and they want to hear it. They also recognize that organizations are contradictory, and that those contradictions can offer a platform to start a conversation. Unilever, for example, owns both Axe and Dove, two View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
says, but also means the soil can capture a significant amount of carbon dioxide, which is the major cause of global warming. That is the focus of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
entrepreneurial graduates, and to create a mechanism to connect alumni with HBS faculty and the global HBS network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. More than seventy teams entered the March regional competitions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
will buy the used product.” For Apple, the rewards have outweighed the risks. Global shipments of used smartphones reached 282.6 million in 2022, an 11.5 percent increase over 2021, with iPhones representing 80 percent of the secondhand... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO and cofounder of Fleetzero,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Asha Haji, who was a global finalist for the 2022 Alumni New Venture Competition with her company Framework, an on-demand business school for professionals in the startup space, gave her insight on how turbulence has affected the funding... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2012
- News
The CFO as a Game Player
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
Susana Eshleman (MBA 1998) is president and CEO of Children International. In this interview she talks about the goals and benefits of running an international nonprofit organization. “Children International is a global nonprofit... View Details