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Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the startup pivoted from consumer... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

11 Oct 2015
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Engineering, Science, Entrepreneurship, and Boston’s Newest Innovation District

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
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New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook

When Kathleen Cooke Ryan took up her new role as executive director of the HBS Global Initiative last March, she joined a thriving organization. After the successful 1999 launch of its first international research center -- the Asia-Pacific Research Office, in Hong... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
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School Ties

When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
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CGLV Plenary Session

Last May, a plenary session was held to summarize and integrate the findings and recommendations gleaned from four workshops held at HBS during the academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values (CGLV), the workshop series featured participants... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
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Cheers to Volunteers

Senior Associate Dean for External Relations Rob Kaplan, John Whitehead (MBA 1947), and HBS Fund Chair Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) celebrated the fundraising efforts of alumni volunteers at a reception at New York City's Metropolitan Club in March. The annual event drew... View Details

01 May 2012
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Best in Show

Parrish: To counter a down economy, laughter was the best medicine. Long an occasion for high jinks and good laughs, the HBS Show was born in dark times. Oil shocks, inflation, and high unemployment were the order of the day when Joe Parrish (MBA 1974) pulled together... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Entrepreneurs’ Fund

Dan Rumennik, Jess Bloomgarden, and Andrew Rosenthal (all HBS ’12) are the driving forces behind the establishment of a new initiative, funded by the Rock Center, that offers a total of $50,000 to HBS student entrepreneurs. Awards of $5,000 each to ten selected teams... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Dec 2015
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Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

With the launch of the Gender Initiative in spring 2015, HBS is poised to become an important resource for research on gender. “So much of what people think they know about gender is simply not substantiated by empirical evidence, but instead is based on stereotypes,”... View Details

April 1997 (Revised May 1997)
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Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In late 1994, James Down, member of Mercer's Executive Committee, has to decide whether or not he should push ahead with the writing and publication of a book on growth--at a time when the more successful business publications focus on reengineering and cost cutting.... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Culture; Business Growth and Maturation; Knowledge Management; Product Development; Information Publishing; Books; Consulting Industry; Publishing Industry

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25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

topic. Scholars interested in the fields of finance and private equity will find the research and case studies informative and enlightening. Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China By William C.... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

intersections and pass the information along to local governments to encourage better traffic management. They review 108 hang-ups, study best practices of emergency medicine in other countries, evaluate the level of care available at... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Information; Information; Information; Information

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Accessibility | About

Accessibility Harvard University and HBS are committed to making University Information Technology and University Digital Content accessible. Beginning in June 2023 the University has a new Digital Accessibility Policy, which builds upon... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Coleman MBA 2010), managing director and chief administrative officer for alternatives and institution at Invesco and board member of the National Monuments Foundation Erik Pickering (MBA 1999), president of Tracers Information... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

you get used to losing—a lot. You also learn how to read people. It’s not like some guy twists an Oreo, like John Malkovich’s character in the movie Rounders, but there’s valuable information if you are paying attention. My goal is to... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Jun 2004
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An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators

anyone else in my situation to act this way? Legacy: Does this action reflect how I want to be known and remembered? Concludes Wheeler: “Doing the right thing sometimes means that we must accept a known cost. But in the long run, doing the wrong thing may be even more... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services