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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype” of broadband, View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
business and social-sector organizations that offers hope for innovative solutions to some of society's most pressing challenges. Your class has chosen to focus its gift on the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. What is it about... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
seniors' money by offering a caregiver-managed debit card account with personalized spending controls and extra protection from fraud and scams. Johnston likens the growing opportunities in aging to the old high school science lesson of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
offered in conjunction with this month's reunions: Transitions and Transformation and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader. These were tailored specifically to the needs of alumni. In addition, the committee has urged the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
opportunities. Cities, the C40 says, offer three principal areas for such investment activity: increasing infrastructure energy efficiency, namely in buildings, lighting, and transportation systems; using resources more effectively, for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
things like shapes, lines, and colors. So if you ask Google what a dog is, Google Images will offer you billions of results. Google’s not the only one. From Microsoft and Amazon to countless buzzy Valley startups, when someone says they... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
"They must also develop a working knowledge of what our educational environment is about and what the norms and expectations are." Help on Arrival Intensive coaching sessions, such as those offered through International Orientation Day's... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
means for the future of the School, as well as the need for HBS to educate leaders who will help solve the complex challenges facing the world today. The Campaign Nitin Nohria: The Harvard Business School Campaign offers us an opportunity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
sense of the word and letting the students figure out how to execute a project.” Days 1 & 2: Zapotec Villages MEXICO’S MANY FACES: As part of the IXP, students lived with families in the Zapotec villages of Oaxaca State. For many, the experience was the highlight of a... View Details