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- 01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
diverse perspectives.” Since February 2018, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative has held a series of climate change events. Cosponsored by local HBS alumni clubs, the gatherings have taken place in San Francisco; Miami; Washington,... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
and has worked with dozens of companies, primarily in North America and Europe. Although the team expected their clients would be mainly tech companies, which are typically hungry for data and eager for experimentation, they have drawn interest from a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
By Beth Stewart (MBA 1982), CEO Trewstar Corporate Board Services and Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973), retired CEO, Catalyst and senior advisor to Trewstar We take as given that modern, well-run boards recognize myriad reasons to include diverse... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
women hope it will draw more attention to the problems that women face in the workplace. “I invested in it also as a passion project, because I’m extremely focused on diversity and inclusion in my professional life,” says Mandelli. “For... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
privately held company's diverse concerns were sowed in 1965 when Kraft went to work at Rand-Whitney, a packaging company he later acquired in a leveraged buyout. Seven years later, he founded International Forest Products, now one of the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
enhance regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future,” while some observers see it as a push to enhance China’s role in global affairs with a China-centered trading network. The course exposed students to the diversity of views... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
hospitals build cross-functional and cross-organizational teams that coordinate patient care more effectively. "Given the diversity of skills and backgrounds of doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers, and technicians, and the speed... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental performance. One such company,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
Candoor, a two-person startup focused on the importance of having coaching and feedback from someone within a company when applying for a job. Austin calls the partnership a “smart and self-aware” step toward their big-picture goals. “The vision is to create a world in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
which connects farmers to food banks to reduce food waste and feed needy communities; Anne Hayes, executive director of The Food Project, which deploys youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds to work on farms and in urban gardens... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
accomplished that, Melcher took a step back from the school board in the mid-2000s and currently serves as a trustee of the endowment. “If a founder stays on too long, she can stifle an organization,” Melcher cautions, noting that building a strong, committed board,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
activities than scanning a résumé for six seconds—which is what the average recruiter does,” she says. But just as important as efficiency to companies like Unilever is the diversity of applicants that Pymetrics delivers—a trait unique to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
apply so that more will be admitted, above the 25 to 30 percent that typically are found in an entering MBA class. Bulletin: Besides women, who else would you encourage to apply to HBS? Fadule: Put simply, we want smart people with the potential to lead and run View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
of academic research programs and initiatives. For example, we launched an open and global "ideas challenge" to generate research topics around type 1 diabetes, with $30,000 in awards. Winning ideas came from diverse actors, including an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
me to succeed as a working woman in India than it is for many of my female counterparts elsewhere in the world. First, women in India are accepted as just another element in a diverse workforce consisting of many different ethnic and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
doesn’t scale and AI enables more access. It allows inclusiveness because you can do things in much cheaper ways, but solutions need to be designed thoughtfully.” For McKenney, the diverse backgrounds of the students in the SIP and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
computing and open-source software allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs like Bahadir to do more with less. And funding sources are more diverse than ever. Unger, for example, has raised seed money from sources of so-called patient capital:... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
manage personnel, budget, facilities, and a diverse range of community stakeholders,” Grossman notes. “It’s not a stretch to think of them as CEOs, yet many have not been trained for that job.” To enhance their capacity to build and lead... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Club of Washington, DC. The expert panel featured voices from the energy, environmental, and governmental sectors; attendees from fields as diverse as education, health... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy