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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
It’s a Small World
I've been at EF for the past 20 years, it's been super exciting. To you give you a sense of the scale of our business, last year we opened up a new EF office or school at a rate of one every other week. If you gauged the number of students that have learned a language... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
Kasseem Dean (OPM 50, 2017), known in the music world as Swizz Beatz, was used to seeing Gordon Parks’ photographs in meetings with business partners and at the homes of friends who were not African American. It was far more unusual to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer glimpses into a future in which the way we buy, pay, watch, listen,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
researchers found, that a couple who used condoms as a contraceptive would become pregnant. Shapiro's friend called later that day to report that her daughter had confronted her boyfriend with that stat and another she saw that day: 1 in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Celebrating Women at HBS
and other faculty members will present his new case, "Women at HBS and in Business." Featured speakers will include Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO of Facebook; Ann Moore (MBA 1978), former chairman of Time Inc.; and Karen Gordon Mills... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
Constance “CJ” Jones (MBA 2008) had a tough time as a student at her middle school in Durham, North Carolina. Often the only person of color in the academically advanced classes, she felt rejected by both her white and her black peers for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
“The discussions forced us to think about complicated issues,” he adds, noting that there was never a right or wrong answer. “It gave us a systematic approach to thinking about difficult situations.” That’s... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
being alone. Launch sessions are a time for teams to proactively set norms that make teammates accessible to one another while working apart. In this way, team norms must directly address how to mitigate feelings of isolation that may... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
starting to learn to talk, walk, read. Then you're going to high school. And you're probably starting college, and then, you're starting to work. So the starting quarter. And that's somewhere I would say if you want to use age ranges... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
enrolled in US colleges and universities. The Question: Confi’s online health resource is marketed directly to students, but the go-to-market strategy for its sexual assault prevention program is less clear. How can Confi break into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
spent a lot of time on lately is removing amber-colored dried tape anchoring the corners of early 20th-century photos from the United Fruit Company archives. Seventy-five photo albums document decades of social and business history across... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Amy Hilliard (MBA 1978) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Amy Hilliard (MBA 1978) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) The first time I walked into a university classroom as an instructor, not a student, it was the fall of 2019, and 45 students... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
commitment of time and resources, careful consideration is given to whether a case justifies the treatment. “It’s not technology for technology’s sake,” Roberto notes. “We should only use multimedia when we... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
occurred to me (at my customary snail’s pace) that IBM missed a PR bonanza by not making its marvelous machine a woman. But I digress. Watson’s performance at times was puzzling. The machine answered 34 questions, all correctly. Yet it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from a time of massive pain. When you look back broadly at the last few decades, what were some of the key factors in China’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
that I think comes to each of us a few times in our life, where all of a sudden, all of the work that we've done over the years and all the experiences we had, suddenly become blazingly clear through the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who you are. We had a very hard View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wellness and medical technology—always seeking to maximize financial returns while delivering social and environmental impact." During her time at Funk, she connected with the Calvert Foundation, a non-profit investing institution... View Details