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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
way or another, the experience of waiting touches all of us,” says Associate Professor Ryan Buell. His recent working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues,” examines the human tendency to be uncomfortable as the last person in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
feedback from taxpayers and employees as well as measures of meaningful business results, was a critical step in changing attitudes. How did you improve customer service? There were no quick fixes or silver bullets. The IRS had to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
meaningful work that I enjoy,” says Simons. “Hearing loss is one of the greatest unmet challenges in medicine. It’s an amazing privilege to be involved in this field at a time when advances by Akouos and... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
bank accounts are held in Equity Bank. It has the largest ATM network in the country and the best mobile banking service, reaching a large and geographically dispersed customer base. We believe Equity is an example of an investment that has had a View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates, focused on leadership development and featuring experiential, community-level project work in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Global Citizen Year has now supported almost 1,000... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
California to shut down. She had been working closely with epidemiologists early on. San Francisco is the second densest city in the US, and while no one wants to see a complete shutdown, she said it was troubling to see the numbers going... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
chanting at a nearby monastery. Following their love of travel, their desire to spend meaningful family time together, and the belief that a trip around the world would offer their kids an education they couldn't possibly get in a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
flatware, and glassware. Choosing a pattern was a decision of great importance, since one had to live with that decision for some time. Today, the movement is toward settings that aren’t “matchy-match”; Steuben’s new lines of glassware View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
Thriving Online After three decades in service of people who are over the age of 50, Meredith Oppenheim is working to nudge the industry in a new direction—broadening the scope of its offerings to include View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
worked closely with Kremer to ensure that his needs on campus were met. And HBS students—from Kremer’s class until today—have actively raised money for Prize4Life, while many alumni donors continue to support the cause, including many... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
from 6 percent to 15 percent in the last seven years and continues to grow. “We’re not yet where we want to be,” he stresses, “but we’re making meaningful progress on a challenge that’s been historically difficult for schools.” Helping... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
After six years at UCB, Martinez believed that serving on a board of directors could be “a meaningful and relevant option,” but she didn’t know how to make it happen. “I started researching how to get started and came across several... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival rates. Two companies at the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
“We need to be educating students to work in complex environments with people of different races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and political views to make the most of these differences.” —JAN HAMMOND SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN “We need to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates at HBS, is also at work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
League graduate school and then working internationally in a senior leadership role.” But as Jefferson lay in a bed at Tripler Medical Center in Hawaii, where he was flown for emergency surgery, those possibilities seemed very far away.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and build supportive community for your expressions. The question is not if you are creative, but what and how you are creating. Rediscovering creativity can help you flourish emotionally, professionally, and relationally. Your expressions can spark joy and View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
collection of those conversations. One quick note, the first interview was recorded in our offices and the rest of them took place on campus during reunions. OK. On to the episode. I'm Jimmy Childre from OPM '18. When I finished college I went to View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the pandemic forced a rapid... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley