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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via online communities. The chamber... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student study sessions in project rooms,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in the 2016 election, at 56... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Photo courtesy of Jan Petzel PETZEL When Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) began his descent from the peak of Mt. Everest on May 13, 2013, each triumphant step marked the completion of three goals that had their origin during a presentation at HBS by Goldman Sachs in 2002. "The... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are doing. Brian Elliot (MBA 2008)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
player whose quarter lands nearest the other side without touching or going over the brick edge wins all. The Kennedy School of Government would have started the field of study called Behavioral Finance decades ago if they had seen this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: labor... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- News
Potential for Mass Customization
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
success over the course of their lives. And the seminal study, the Gallop Purdue Index, identified that far more important than where you go to college in your life outcome is how you approach the experience. And, specifically, they found a set of high-impact View Details
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 17 Aug 2010
- News
Career Trends
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Edmondson says that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well their teams work.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
If you hadn’t already noticed, we did something different with this issue’s cover. We typically pick one story for cover treatment. But this time, we picked a topic — the global financial crisis — to highlight five related stories. Why the change? The answer is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Farzad Those were the searing words of my editor, as I handed him the HBS recommendation form and a stamped envelope. This was my mentor, mind you — the mensch who launched me into feature writing after taking me in as a Wall Street Power- Point mule. He shielded me... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to monitor the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Callaghan McGee Photos by Tracy Powell (Editor's Note: Brad McGee passed away in November 2015.) John Callaghan (MBA 1984) and Brad McGee (MBA 1987) became close friends while growing up in the small town of Carmel, NY. Their friendship has spanned more than four... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
car will get better over time,” says Mistele. “The software won’t be the same forever; you will be able to update it regularly, just as you do with your smart phone or laptop, and your car will learn your behavior and personal preferences... View Details