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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
crowdfunding. We asked Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001), a partner at The Bridgespan Group—nonprofit advisor to mission-driven organizations and leaders—and author of “Galvanizing Philanthropy” (Harvard Business Review, November 2009), to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
is that the majority of local residents have come to share our objectives. How did you raise the money to build the cathedral? In 1995, my HBS education and corporate financial experience were central to persuading commercial lenders that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
no longer be a liability. The college also solves a second problem. Many directors work full-time as CEOs or academics, and many serve on multiple boards, leaving little time for them to master the complexities of the businesses they... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Google.org, IDEO, and other local businesses described their perspectives on the problem. The HBS Community Partners team will use the opportunities identified at the event to bring together cross-sector leaders over the next year, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
He pursued pro bono work in community development in Boston and in business development projects in Eastern Europe before focusing on education. “As a larger issue, it seemed to me that a lot of the initiatives designed to impose change... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
their education system different from ours? What is their farming system that's different from ours, or similar to ours? So I always seek out to meet the locals. April White: So how did your love of travel become WildChina? Zhang Mei:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
and independents in the center to cobble together a winning coalition. The default position is big-tent appeals or, especially for the underdog, negative attacks on the opponent’s character, experience, and leadership potential. Also, View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
and so on. My pivot from the business world to journalism happened in 2016, when a friend who was working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign called. At the time, I was CEO of an education startup,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
managerial economist Robert Schlaifer. These men were pioneers in the art and science of negotiation in both the business and diplomatic realms. By nature private and confidential, negotiation shuns the limelight and thus is either... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
my briefcase in one hand and my camera in the other,” he recalls. “After I did the AMP program, my ambitions really came to the fore. It was a watershed time for building confidence and creating big ideas for the future.” For Main Wilson, that carried over to both his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
business strategy takes care of itself.” It’s a philosophy that has taken him from the research firm he founded at 26 to the chairmanship of Atlantic Media. When I grow up: “When I was 13 years old, I read Advise and Consent about the US... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Stanford Business School. Johnson’s father, also called Pitch, was a track coach who participated in the 1924 Olympic Games as a high hurdler and passed a love of running down to his namesake. The family moved to Palo Alto when Pitch was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
society’s biggest problems, traffic congestion,” he says. Mistele’s network has become extensive, and the connections that began forming when he arrived at HBS continue to grow. He cites Lynda Applegate, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page