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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
continues to be a prominent advocate for women's equality and empowerment in the workplace. Moving easily between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, she has served... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
identify which opportunities within its purview are the most promising and therefore merit disproportionate attention. Sometimes, the one or two opportunities worth tackling are exceedingly clear. But other times, a number of seemingly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
GROVE Born in Hungary in 1936, András István Gróf survived Nazi and Communist regimes before fleeing to the United States at the age of twenty. In 1997, as chairman and CEO of Intel, Andrew Stephen Grove was... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
often without the human element. My point is not that they don’t make ‘em like these two anymore. Their equals (not many) are in action among us now. But in reading the glowing obituaries for Bogle and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
the book, which is equal parts memoir and how-to guide, Zee Clarke (MBA 2008) shares her own experiences as a Black woman in corporate America and how discovering mindfulness... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
Under your leadership, there seems to be an emphasis on involving HBS alumni in advancing the School's objectives. Is that fair to say? We've long benefited from alumni engagement in the work of the School as case protagonists, student conference speakers, View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
versus strangers) might affect their approach to splitting the equity (both the equality of the split and the timing of the split) and how the split might affect both the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
not benefited from the prosperity of our country. And I think to see income inequality and to see what's going on with people's lives, it does change my view of things.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
is affecting and, in some cases, upending traditional ways of thinking about and conducting business. Historically, says MacKay, economists have tended to assume that firms have equal capacity to set prices... View Details
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
game-changer for me. The most valuable part was definitely the people I met, but the academic experience was equally formative.The engineering curriculum taught me the importance of humility in problem-solving—admitting what I don’t know... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
not-so-new phenomenon. Simply put, it’s the act of buying things to make us feel better. Part of the experience is finding and purchasing that just-right something, but an equally important component is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
vision from a different angle. He’s frank about the financial aspect of the decision—with three children, a government salary wasn’t sustainable over the long term—but he doesn’t rule out a return to government, and is View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Are there certain characteristics that all leaders possess? Could Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton be equally successful today running another company? Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative is attempting to answer these View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Onyeador Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations Department at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Understanding peoples' reactions to group-based inequality As the... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
Affinity Group LatinXAffinityGroup@groups.hbs.edu Employee Resource Groups, Harvard University The Harvard University Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to promote equal opportunity, awareness, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
USA more than any other woman, I played on the national team for 16 years, I firsthand saw the impact that I had as a role model. I saw the impact that my team had, that Team USA had to be a part of the conversation, shape the conversation. Think about what's happening... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
anticipate those questions." Equally important is the need to recognize opportunities for negotiation. Women take tough assignments, she said, but undermine themselves by not negotiating to make the new workload successful in terms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
proved difficult to ignore. "Product is my thing," Bricklin explains. "I like to develop new metaphors and new ways to help make computers easier to use." With his early career exposure to word processing, he was quick to see the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs