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- 01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement
enterprise one day. I might start an NGO. I might start a nonprofit. I might start a company that’s focused on increasing social welfare.” That’s not by accident—it is in part a function of the creativity and the work of the SEI founders,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
bureau whose members would include alumni qualified to speak on timely topics. It was also recommended that clubs identify information technology officers, who would tackle both internal and external technical functions for their club.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
of Innovation, has won numerous awards and been translated into multiple languages. For an obituary, visit www.hbs.edu/news/releases /thomasmccrawobituary.html. With two classmates from the academy, Gallatin had resolved to leave Geneva and View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the political realm in 2017 and by comparison about $400 billion spent on philanthropy. If you look at the resources being spent in philanthropy—whether it’s related to climate change or poverty or immigration—the political system’s inability to View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason, memory, and all those other higher... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
and increasing societal inequality are. The invisible hand is, by definition, invisible. Also, tragically, in a capitalist society (but really in any system), individual or corporate greed can run amuck. Simply put, some will choose to cut corners or View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
who was working as a senior project manager at Amazon, had become obsessed with understanding why the paper-heavy US immigration process remained so difficult and expensive. “Immigration is one of those overlooked areas where technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
deals that are available out there, and right now we have about $140 million left. Very few properties have come on the market, however, so as much as we’ve been looking, we haven’t found much to buy. To tell the truth, I don’t know what to wish for, because we own or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
aspect of the School’s unparalleled educational experience,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “We are taking great care to build an exceptional environment for research and teaching in the 21st century.” How does HBS plan for the management... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
and Japanese competitors. The American carmakers seem less passionate about their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process.” Flexible and Nimble HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
management and maintenance services to owners of the Eclipse VLJs in existence. Linear will have permission to fly those and pass along 85 percent of revenues to their owners. “It’s a way to grow without expending any capital,” remarks... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
regional issues. I tried to get better informed on general world issues and solicited suggestions from former ambassadors. When it came time to leave, the President gave me a nice send-off. What do you do during a typical week? My day usually starts with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging directly with the team, to help... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
theater also has its a-ha! moments. At the opening night of Twilight: New Moon, Lopez happened to be visiting the AMC Village Crossing 18 in Skokie, Illinois. He watched as a caravan of minivans and SUVs disgorged carload after carload of... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
doing something that simple. I mean, you would have to program it for that specific bridge, you would have to tell it what to look for. Instead of just letting it loose and saying, "Survey the bridge all the time for us." You would have to program that thing. And... View Details