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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
areas: defining the School's audiences, identifying vehicles for communication, and addressing design and content. The committee's work is predicated on the fact that HBS needs to communicate its services... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
decades of his career, he cofounded and ran Brooktrout, growing it to a $150-million-a-year company that designed voicemail systems when everyone else was still using cassettes. After retiring, he became CEO of Groove Mobile, the first... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
children. “I was faced with the challenge of how to service the loan while continuing to work at Rocket Learning full time,” says Mahajan, recalling the concerns that prompted her application to the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative's... 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
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
For Hello Kitty, we like to say, “Small gift, big smile.” We have a 10-cent lollipop at some mass retailers. But we also have $500,000 jewelry. Sanrio has more than 3,000 licensing partners in over 130 countries. The happiness of bringing a smile to someone is very... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
confluence. "For managers, working in the social sector can be more exciting than managing a business - your influence as a force for entrepreneurial change can make an impact beyond your organization," notes Associate Professor J. Gregory Dees, who View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
fastest-growing economies. I hope many of you have made plans to attend. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), continues to analyze alumni club needs and work on recommendations for building club membership. (See related... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to determine who... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which provides safety and environmental services and products to the energy industry, knew the city from his undergraduate days at Rice University. He moved back in 2010, and when he did, his mentor, L. E. Simmons (MBA 1972), president of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New School for New Orleans
charter-management organization designed to turn around failing schools. When Hurricane Katrina struck, Alford was teaching at a charter school in Baltimore. He moved to the Big Easy, where he founded and is “school leader” of the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
acceptance into A Better Chance (ABC), a program designed to help smart, minority kids reach their full potential. As a tenth-grader, Rogers was placed in a group house in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with eleven other teenagers from all over... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
Photo via the New York Observer Photo via the New York Observer When Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009) started Rent the Runway with HBS classmate Jenn Hyman, the pair were in their 20s—two scrappy entrepreneurs who built the concept of renting View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
…and They Will Come
At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a firm he has shaped into a world... View Details