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- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
“class,” I recognize some who later came to HBS. More probably ended up in other MBA programs. And others probably concluded that business wasn’t for them. To this day the program still thrives. So here we are, 37 View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
since early 2012, and it’s been an experience he never expected as “a guy who spent the first 40 years of his life never thinking about anywhere outside the US.” “I fell in love with this place (Kenya) within 48 hours of arriving,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
Centennial celebration. Through it, HBS honors the important contributions made by its graduates to the development of the VC industry, and who today are estimated to make up more than 20 percent of the world's venture capitalists. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
match the usual expectations of ivy-covered brick buildings connected by orderly pathways, a look inside any one of those buildings reveals a less traditional scene. Wander up to the second floor of Shad Hall, for example. Gracing one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see traffic pick View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
“That is really the crux of why I went to HBS, and why I chose to get an MBA. I knew that I wanted to build something that would make an impact on people’s lives. “ Rachel spent her two years at HBS immersed in learning and soaking View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
challenge: “How do we take what we do, collaborating with our many partners and clients, and increase our social impact one hundredfold? That’s our next big aspiration.” Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92) Year Up... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
Muhammad Ali than a typical diplomat. "He's yakking and talking. He's jiving," marveled a colleague. Though he added: "The first time you see it, you think it's just bull." In fact, it was Holbrooke's way of pumping himself up and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
One way to uncover the consequences of inequality, Moss and his colleagues propose, is to set up experiments in a lab to look at possible effects on individual decision-making. Behavioral psychologists have found that people often make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
signal – it can be a turn-off.” Corning, a long-established leader in material sciences and manufacturing, has stepped up its engagement with HBS interns, moving from an average of one summer intern a year... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Wes Hather. The would-be founders then went looking for “a big problem” and a tech-based solution. GroupTalent was born in 2011 to address the challenges of employee recruitment with an online marketplace. But two years later, the company... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
address poverty at scale which led him to focus on education and education policy as key to opening up possibilities. After two years teaching social justice in an economically distressed community with... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of Defense. "I enjoyed public service so much," he says, "that thirty years later, I'm still at it!" After graduating from HBS, and after more years of service at the Defense Ministry, Yeo was named chairman... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
Clubs News Clubs News Building Bridges, One Meal at a Time Like most HBS alumni clubs, the HBS Club of Toronto is always on the lookout for new ways to engage its members to connect with each other. So when the club realized about a year... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Sheila Marcelo
As a child in the Philippines, Sheila Marcelo grew up watching her parents run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the... View Details
- Web
An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
model, its goal is to increase that number to 4 million by 2018. “My organization is at a critical stage,” she says. “In the next three years we will further scale to 15 districts, 30,000 schools, a team of close to 2,000 staff and 15,000... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie