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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin (MBA 1988) Charted Path View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
called them. In fact, he was just now planning an expedition to a blank area of southeast Alaska. But a summit higher than Everest? Carpé flipped through the book to learn more about the mountain better known as Minya Konka, but the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
federal estimates, only 11 percent of its subsidized fertilizer reached poor farmers; middlemen skimmed off much of the rest, often to sell to big farmers with deep pockets. The NAFCON factory closed in 1999 and fell into disrepair. It... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
speaking for all of Harvard, has joined the Association of American Universities in issuing a statement outlining deep concern about the new executive order. Here on the HBS campus we will be meeting throughout the week to determine how... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
ensuring high-quality care across the system. The arrival of COVID-19, he says, presented “the challenge of a lifetime.” In addition to gaining a deep appreciation of frontline health care providers, says Hatanaka, Ontario Health has... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a deep purplish-red. Keen has taught a course on the economics of corn at Creighton University's Heider College of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
to a continually evolving global business landscape. Curriculum Innovations What is the unique competence of HBS, and how will you deal with the distance learning revolution that is happening? Alan B. Steiner (MBA 1965), Colorado Springs,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
every business and government agenda in 2021, it was no surprise that more than 70 HBS alumni and guests tuned in to the HBS Association of Southern California’s webinar on February 2 to learn how one start-up is meeting the climate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
event came together when the Rock Center’s director, Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), suggested the club seize the chance to connect with and learn from the HBS faculty and senior staff while they were in London. “Obviously, to have the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
infirmary, like her peers, Margaret emerged from the war as a fully certified truck and airplane mechanic. “She always encouraged us to do things and figure it out, and I think it’s enabled me to jump into the deep end of a swimming pool... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
in deep discussion—is no different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
dinner, at which participants had the chance to get acquainted. "The fact that we were all women meant that we felt freer to express ourselves and speak candidly about who we are," says Bourneuf. "As a result, we started to get to know each other on a View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
more depth. “At HBS, the faculty think about things on a different level,” he says. “It’s intoxicating, so exciting and fun. That’s when I realized that in academia you can think about questions that fire you up and use what you learn to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
and chance encounters complemented the learning that went on in the classroom. “We focused endlessly” on how to design a building that fostered relationships, recalls Graham Wyatt, a lead architect on the project. To fully reflect campus... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
granted. Morrell: Alex Lazarow says this focus on deep impact differentiates frontier startups from their California counterparts. Lazarow: In Silicon Valley, less than 20% of unicorns are in industries like financial services, health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
"Graduate work in business was a relatively new alternative. One young woman asked, 'Will I have to learn to type?' " Typing, of course, was the least of an HBS student's worries. "We were all in it together, really—just one more victim... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
aerialists. You will see a flaming piano being thrown by a trebuchet. And if your mind is closed and it's different from what you expected, you'll miss out. If you open your mind and just drink from the firehose, you will find that you'll View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
avoid is a mindset my dad affectionately calls ‘Dumb F— Farmer Syndrome.’ I’m looking for founders who are humble and excited to learn about what farmers need, instead of the type who assume farmers are stupid or overly risk-averse, which... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
There is guilt. I feel it every day. And it’s deep and maternal. But I refuse to let that guilt defeat me. I know that if I off-ramp, I wouldn’t be happy. And I know that my kids would feel that. We remind ourselves that it’s about... View Details