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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
would be difficult. But the toy business is a serious, cutthroat industry. Later, my experience building Olmec Toys would be documented in an HBS case. I was working as an editor at Standard and Poor’s when I started Olmec. I had no... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
“People find us because everyone has the same problem,” says Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) of his company, StopLift, which is using software and video technology to stop massive losses in retail profits due to theft and checkout fraud. “Retail inventory shrinkage is a tough... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
classmates were terrific,” recalls Kennealey, who received the 2006 Harvard Business School Student Service Award. “I learned to think more broadly about the world, at HBS, and how to solve problems in any environment.” Despite his newly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
more self-belief and confidence as you go in the door. But if you come out of a submarine, the way I did, it takes a good few months before you start to believe that you deserve your place in the classroom. Then came the case “Gunfire at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
took a few years. Early on, her research took place in the lab, which offered a controlled environment that made it possible to nail down causality as she measured intrinsic motivation and creativity. After a few years, though, Amabile View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
forces: The Fear of Missing Out and the Fear of a Better Option—or FOMO and FOBO, for short. And then he graduated and started his career, and mostly forgot about it. Until about ten years later, when FOMO had reached a cultural... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
will seem quaint in comparison, say the HBS alumni behind the nonpartisan group, Reform Elections Now (REN), who gave a virtual presentation to the HBS Club of Dallas in early September to educate and engage business leaders on the specific View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
impressed me when I applied, and it still does.” Krebs appreciates the School’s emphasis on team problem solving and experiential learning associated with the field method, an increasingly important aspect of MBA pedagogy. “We were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
especially in Europe and Japan — are also starting to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the annual report, but more often they have to be ordered separately or... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
at the end of the intensive three-week module, one student compared the experience to running a marathon. "First we stretched, then we warmed up, and then we ran," is how Dwayne Romero (HBS '97) described his nine-and-a-half-hour days filled with classes, cases, View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
different, in a valuable way, from what’s been done before. In the arts, creativity is an expression of an issue or problem the artist was grappling with. In business, it is producing novel, workable solutions to View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
culmination of those 130,000 words is a deeply personal and poetic recounting of Casey’s life, crafted not as a memoir, but as an intervention. READ MORE Morrell: We're here to today to talk about your book, but I want to start by talking... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
able to do that, especially from places like Baltimore. In Authentic Leadership Development, I realized my purpose is to bring realistic optimism to worthy causes. And if I’m going to do that, I have to start in my own home and my own... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
image by John Ritter From Uber’s surge pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, it seems there’s been more awareness of pricing models and pricing strategy in recent years. What’s driving that interest? Thales Teixeira: We need to go back before the businesses View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
successful ever since the commissioning of their new building in 1983. What Feng shui problems are commonly found in Western buildings? Long corridors, angular structures, protruding columns and corners, exposed pillars and structural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO... View Details