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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
Illustration by Peter Arkle Since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, 4.9 million Syrians have fled their country, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced, according to the UN Refugee Agency. To better understand the human,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which is well known for its opaque labeling and pricing. “When you... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
driven by their desire to pay it forward for others. In addition to being the beneficiary of the Forward Fellowship, Thompson-Woode received the Barbara and Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964) Fellowship for students who are first in their family... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
experience on the space station. “You have to adapt your leadership for the situation you are in,” Virts said, which sometimes means “get out of the way.” He also offered advice to the son of one GMP student, who aspires to be an astronaut: “Find out what your gifts... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
However, I am dubious about its quick acceptance by the medical profession. If I’m a doctor who is world renowned for how I operate on a shoulder, and AI tells me that what I’m doing is not best in class, am I going to change? I don’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz Mark Verdi Jan Swartz Rob Swartz In 2018, long-time friends Mark Verdi and Jan Swartz (both MBA 1996) were part of the first cohort of MBA alumni to attend The Reflective Leader, a program designed for successful business leaders... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
weren’t quite ready to give up their mansions yet. How did luxury apartment buildings come to define New York’s skyline and power structure? By 1900, you saw the super affluent moving into apartment buildings on Fifth Avenue. They were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Georgia. In their travels, they discovered numerous abandoned churches—and many small but thriving congregations. The duo photographed and documented their histories, first on a popular website and now in a coffee-table book, Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, with a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
profits are reinvested in the country’s agriculture sector? In the field Saffron crocuses are harvested by hand during a 21-day window in October and November. They are picked only in the morning, before the blooms open, to prevent damage... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
benefit from mimicking the showroom concepts started by online-first retailers and why online-first retailers can benefit from opening more traditional stores. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54316 March... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
challenge the way things have traditionally worked. Vincent Pons: In populist discourse you often have this idea that a country has been governed by a political and economic elite hurting the interests of the people. If you systematically... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
first-year MBA students encounter nearly a dozen cases that address environmental concerns. “My vision would be that all students graduate with a clear understanding of the predicted ramifications of climate change on society and on business, and how companies can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
proposal. At the end of FIELD 3, the team—which was by then armed with a better understanding of both sides of the market and how to engage business owners—pitched HourlyNerd again. This time, the mock stock price climbed to the maximum... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
NETWORK SOLUTIONS In 2012, Richard Kane (MBA 1968) and Bruce Bockmann (MBA 1967) sat in the audience at New York’s Lincoln Center as Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin presented findings from the School’s U.S. Competiveness Project. There was one challenge facing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women of color. In their new book, Glass Half Broken:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In Search of Innovation
will be accepted at HealthAccelerationChallenge.com until September 29, 2014. Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of expert judges and through crowdsourced comments on the site. Finalists will share $150,000 and will be invited to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
board. But he never gave up his ambition to have an international impact. For the last half century, DeFehr has circled the globe—141 countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to... View Details