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- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic development specialists also attest to the importance of health care in determining productivity. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
on. It's noteworthy that he was educated at public universities. There was no tuition at CCNY, City College of New York. Q: And he was penniless when he came. A: He came here with nothing but the shirt on his back. He literally crawled... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
women." Leaders need to set bold goals and provide the resources for people to reach those goals. It doesn't help to have legislation with a very grand sounding name like No Child View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war View Details
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Commencement 2015 Address | About
you are doing, and by the knowledge that your work has a greater Purpose. I learned this lesson as a young child in India, watching my father at his work. My father grew up in a village with no electricity.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
becomes so successful that it provides jobs and desperately needed income to hundreds of women and families in her community. Inspired by Kamila and women like her, Lemmon wants to change the way the world views them. Her book is part of that effort. While View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
nomads, the students had assembled to perform a welcoming ceremony for Van Gerpen and other guests. Among the school’s four grades and seventy children were only a handful of girls, most of them very young. “For Class 3, behind a line of... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
worldwide brand already recognized for integrity and honesty, so much the better. The Globe and Post can fill that need. The objection has always been that there is no way to monetize such a role. Online advertising does not plug the gap... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In front of me a young couple posed for wedding photos in a pretty park. To my left was the bustle of the former Saigon. To my right was the Saigon River and beyond that, coconut swamp and the remains of... View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
run a factory on that? A hospital? Or any business, really?” asks Chidalu. (00:53) Chidalu was determined to empower those being left behind in the push toward a sustainable future. “So I started delving... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
it. I just left him laying there. I turned it into a horrible person, I guess. My name is Devin. I started doing meth when I was 10 years old. Meth affected my friendship with him pretty bad. He won't talk to me any more. Me and my... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
rental. Things are looking up: the car's a hot red convertible, and it's gorgeous out. I cruise through the Sumner Tunnel left hand on the wheel, right hand on my 166 MHz laptop, which I wouldn't have minded playing with on the plane,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
call the “one upper" that you want to avoid. That's someone who always tries to top your story, even if it's nothing to brag about. But they just want to have the upper hand. If you say something like, "I haven't left I haven't View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
South Pole. That seems like an epic adventure, an epic mission, but the challenge with that was that I had no experience with extreme cold and I had no experience on cross country skis. So I was trying to... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
introduced there. Farzad: Oh, gosh. No, you're giving it all away if you do that. White: OK. No spoilers, I promise. We'll just say that you and this young frozen lemonade vendor have a lot in common. And just before he View Details