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- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
positive change to South Africa. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start,” he says. “Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said, ‘Education is the most powerful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
strong when there is a lot of social reinforcement and a strong corporate culture, which was certainly the case at Baxter, as well as at many other kinds of companies today that hire large cohorts of young MBAs. If you’re new to your job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
spending too much; and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ tax policies and deregulatory environment for encouraging risk-taking. Conard makes the contrarian case for how the economy really works, what went wrong over the past decade,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
of sick people coming in,” to “Oh my God, are we going to run out of ventilators?” Our volume of cases doubled, with the number of critically ill people requiring a ventilator increasing over tenfold. At the peak, that meant every 20... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
that end, we hope to find ways to collaborate with efforts such as the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise and to contribute to the development of new nonprofit case studies at the School. View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
about what he had said. I saw the opportunity at HBS to get a lot of both very quickly. It's not just world-class teaching, but the opportunity to learn from world-class peers. In some instances, there are fellow students or guest speakers who lived through one of the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
said, in some cases even enabling patients to treat themselves. Resistance to such a scenario is strong in the rules-based world of medicine, he conceded. "Disruptive innovation has been ignored or opposed by the leading institutions in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
simply to accept responsibility and apologize. Few litigators go into a courtroom thinking they will lose — but examples abound of cases where they were wrong. When companies have an in-house general counsel, can’t managers assume that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might seem. A good View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
experiences and internships around the world. While in Boston, Shibayama became close with some Boston University students and was surprised by the prominence of the liberal arts at American universities, which was not the case in Japan.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
politics? The work I did at the business school was extremely helpful, especially the problem solving you learn with case studies. They provide experience that would take years and years to accumulate otherwise. View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
they were disproportionately coming from Chelsea, Revere, and East Boston. I think in this case the social determinants include living in crowded housing conditions, where the ventilation and air quality are not as good and which seems to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Turkey these days. Many, many countries, Thailand, Vietnam. I call them clients, because in some regards, we have to think of ourselves as a PR agency for folks that are imprisoned and can't speak for themselves. But we've had a number of View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
whose research on racial equity issues will help grow the community of scholars working on this topic, and another fellow will join us in the spring. Next year, we plan to bring in fellows whose work addresses climate change. We’re also introducing a new series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
rates in some cases that are less than half of what they were a couple of months ago. The hope is that it won’t last long, but it’s going to take quite a long time to dig out of this hole. Tourists will probably return the quickest,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
had he majored in business in college, so he arrived never having read a case or used a spreadsheet. “I learned so much; the journey for me was big,” Rice recalls. “I think I got more intellectual growth out of it than a lot of my peers... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
why couldn’t I? I guess the best word for it is chutzpah.” Did you have a favorite course at HBS? If you did, what was the course and what made it so impactful? “I don’t think that’s an answerable question. What makes HBS so special is the View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
on sea duty aboard destroyers. The son and nephew of lawyers, Kiechel nevertheless discovered a more natural affinity for business, which led to his enrollment in the joint program. A summer job case writing for Louis Banks, a former... View Details