Filter Results:
(282)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,430)
- People (1)
- News (282)
- Research (964)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (284)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,430)
- People (1)
- News (282)
- Research (964)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (284)
Sort by
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
findings from the 1,020 responses: philanthropy is “extremely” or “very” important to more than 63 percent of respondents; a sense of responsibility is the primary motivation (84 percent); and almost half of the survey’s participants focus their View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
first time that women played professionally. But no one took notice of it. I didn't pay much attention to it. I knew it was going to fail. But they did have these leagues overseas, and because they were done mostly as amateur... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the insistence of the venture capital community, former Intel executive Mike Markkula joined the team. “So in that way,” Sahlman continues, “it’s different from real estate. It’s about, how do I create experiments that reveal to me, and to people outside the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
standing ovation. And as timing would have it, the event convened in the midst of a brewing struggle over Europe’s direction, the subject of a thought-provoking plenary panel discussion. Another surprise was London’s unusually hot weather, the subject of much press... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Teaching you to deal with a problem when it's small. That fair is fair. Unless you're early, you're late. But how do you think your upbringing shaped the way that you managed and led? JI: Yeah, look, I mean, I think it's a combination of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for consistent quality, and View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
chief made the projects sound simple enough - nothing that Singaporean efficiency could not solve. Fellow panelist William Liley, managing director of Asian Infrastructure Fund Advisers Ltd., which manages... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
LPO in August 2005. A week later, while guest conducting in Korea, he saw reports on CNN that New Orleans, though battered by Hurricane Katrina, had managed to avoid major damage. But constant email updates from an LPO member, which had... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
to the club’s vice president, Craig Maughan (MBA 2018), the Great Salt Lake is a critical component of Utah’s environment and economy, making it a topic of great interest both locally and nationally. Craig Maughan with Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Instead, he applied to the Ph.D. program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and was accepted. Once at MIT, Nohria realized that in management education he had found his true passion. After completing the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
even if consumer finance was still unpopular. While it might have taken a crisis to convince some, we believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby boomers are coming into their fifties, which is a natural time to start... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details