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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Sachdev (MBA 2013) found that the companies that thrived shared five common traits. In a recent working paper, Lal and Sachdev lay out these best practices, which include an open and flexible regulatory structure, business models that focus on service as well as... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Don’t give up your power
Author, singer, and Morgan Stanley vice chairman Carla Harris (MBA 1987) advises people—women in particular—to take lessons from mistakes and move on. In this interview she offers advice on respecting oneself and taking advantage of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
technical, and skilled employees to support growing international business. For Jordanian, Egyptian, and Palestinian companies, cooperation with Israeli firms, and with each other, is even more strategically attractive. Companies can... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
to have you here for Skydeck Live. Thank you for being here with us, Neil. So you're going to talk to us today about happy and awesome. I know these are concepts you've been thinking about View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live, work, or travel in Asia; that's the region of the world where the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
students, faculty, and staff gathered in Murr Center gave the film an enthusiastic reception that bespoke a genuine respect for a large and vital part of the HBS community that seldom draws public... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Hayes (now emeritus) coauthored a book on Islamic finance. To me at the time, it seemed like exotic subject matter and an unusual departure for Hayes, who had built his reputation by being a highly renowned and View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
story as well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them.” One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
The 2005 HBS Global Leadership Forum in London proved to be a unique experience in ways that were planned — and even in some that were not — for nearly 600 alumni, faculty, and guests. By day, alumni listened to and learned from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
communication experts, from not for profits, so that they can get people to do the right thing. JH: But Kidwai says that making toilets safe, sanitary, and convenient is just the beginning of an effort to View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
act behind the scenes and in front of the scenes. So I'm trying to marry the concept of diplomacy and dignity and respect into the business world and into the private sector. “I was global chairman for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
was absurd, a notion not shared by Professor James Bright. He would look around the classroom for a guy not wearing a tie, and three days in a row he called on me first to start the discussion. At the end of the third day, he actually... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
deal of respect for the faculty and the institution." Like many who attended the OPM reunion, Sorensen traveled a great distance. "I love to learn," he says, "and I saw this as an opportunity to expand my... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
readers in 59 countries, and is a respected and influential business voice for Central Europe. After leading the paper through six years of steady growth, however, Frankenberg says she decided to come to HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for Organizational Fitness, outline six... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
corporate board consideration.” As you organize your campaign, Stautberg says, “It’s best to cast a wide net. Networking is essential,” she emphasizes. “Who knows you and respects your capabilities? If you have a positive relationship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
be noted that these green fruits are born from the entrepreneurial seeds sown over the years by HBS faculty, such as Howard Stevenson, Lynn Bollinger, and Georges Doriot, to name a few who influenced so many. I am personally grateful to John McArthur, Pat Liles, and... View Details