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- 01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
about changing both how people think and how they behave," says Porter. "I'm pleased when my work is used by other academicians. But I feel equally satisfied when people tell me my ideas made a difference in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
something my parents use." Under her tenure, Godrej has been reinventing and relaunching products that millions of Indians use—inexpensive insect repellent—and aspire to buy—hair dyes and car aerosol. Nisa's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
if it is not growing, on a sustained basis, faster than the economy as a whole. But when Reagan took office, the debt equaled 30 percent of our GDP versus 60 percent today. This despite Clinton/Gore leaving us with (in Bush’s words)... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
America’s history,” Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) said in a release. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
percent of the wealth — and the bottom 40 percent virtually none — could guarantee equal opportunity for all its citizens. My colleagues and I are now exploring whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
and map those across organizations and interests. Venture outside your tribe. Giving time or money in service of those who share a common trait or identity with us—whether religion, ethnicity, nationality,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
their names, and there were kids who actually couldn’t. One child, who was almost four, kept saying his name was Corky, which it wasn’t. These are children who have been paid so little attention that they don’t even know their names.”... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn In a May 6, 2018, op-ed in the New York Times, Rent the Runway co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) discussed the reasoning behind her recent decision to View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
that creates unacceptable, even dire inequities for our Black community members,” writes Nohria. “This moment has made urgently clear that the School must redouble its commitment to combat racism—and anti-Black racism in particular—to... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them.... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
The Lines That Divide America
Photo via The Atlantic Photo via The Atlantic In a new article in The Atlantic, Dean Nitin Nohria draws parallels between standing in a waiting line and the current sense of unfairness and View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
Gisel and Omid Kordestani Attending the W50 Summit at Harvard Business School last spring was an eye-opening experience for Gisel Kordestani, who until then hadn't fully realized that despite the enormous strides women at HBS have made in... View Details
Keywords: W50
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
tried-and-true pedagogy and gamification. “We want you to get addicted to the course the way you get addicted to a game,” he says. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
While a number of organizations work to address the inequities that exist in America’s public schools, one in particular has caught the eye of President Obama. And with good reason: the Harlem Children’s... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
HBS alumni and a faculty member were among the respondents. Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012), CEO of Harvard Children’s Zone, writing with the organization’s founder, Geoffrey Canada, suggested that, “[i]f we are going to break the cycle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
in which "introducing themselves and creating a network aren't necessarily skills they've cultivated." A free-to-veterans service, RallyPoint is also good news for the Defense Department—which annually reimburses states some $1 billion... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
percent credited the School for preparing them to make decisions with incomplete information, and an equal percentage also reported that HBS prepared them to address complex problems. Other valued skills... View Details