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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
and the aid of new research technologies and genetic information, Tanzi has hinted that the other Alzheimer’s genes may be identified in as little as two years. “That’s exciting,” says McCance, though he knows there are no guarantees. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Fabio Consoli Whatever your summer plans might look like this year—whether you’re traveling to a faraway beach or enjoying downtime much closer to home—nothing has the power to transport us quite like a good book. We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
we could wrestle with and articulate, what this case method was all about,” observes Willis Emmons (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. “We welcomed 38 new faculty to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
join York Street, a winner in the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition.) Years earlier, Embuldeniya and Mawilmada bonded at HBS over their Sri Lankan roots, a tie further... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
throw in the towel. Eventually, with support from HBS alumni like venture philanthropist Arthur Reimers, who wrote a check for $50,000, and an infusion of capital from such outlets as the Rock Accelerator,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
Illustration by Jeffrey Smith Follow the Passion & Purpose blog A new book about dynamic young Harvard Business School MBAs, Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders (Harvard Business Review Press),... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
were using it for tours. If artists weren't touring, they didn't have audience to sell it to. What instead happened, thank goodness, is people were spending a lot of time at home and discovering new hobbies. If it wasn't making sourdough... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
face with realistic business situations right in the classroom." Building rapidly on the skill base and fiber network already in place at the School, such an initiative has indeed been launched. Progress to date has included the development of an entirely View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
personally, too. As he began to dig into the research, the conclusions were unambiguous: “I needed to retire and dedicate myself to sharing knowledge,” recalls Brooks, who left AEI in 2019. Courtesy Arthur Brooks At HBS, he teaches the Leadership and Happiness course,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Confederacy Nineteen ninety-six was only a few days old when the New York Times ran the headline "'95 the Hottest Year on Record." The story discussed mounting scientific evidence of global warming, a potentially catastrophic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the end, it's the boards that must resist the pressure to overpay executives. Healy: To put it in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
A British merchant's long-forgotten seventeenth-century book may not only fuel a radical rethinking about how modern economies developed in Europe and America, but also add historical perspective on today's hot-button issue of the proper relationship between government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students to continue those discussions. Now, when the Aldrich doors open, students make a beeline to Spangler. It’s a place to see and be seen.” Renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, whose New York–based firm won the View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that ensured their executives would receive above-average pay even though all executives can't be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that... View Details
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Headlined News”, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, as well as various other news outlets. Philomena Essed Philomena Essed is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies at... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman