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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
check the progress of games through open archways in the right field wall, the team offers budget-conscious fans “dynamic pricing” — a Baer innovation that makes tickets to less popular games available at... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
energy, and also community involvement. And as a deputy majority whip, you have the opportunity to take a leadership role and actually work with all of your colleagues to make sure that they have the information they need to View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
place," he explains. "The team just needed a coach to get them organized to run the right plays." He cites HBS for providing that know-how, and more: "Do we need to be able to build a decision tree and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Black Panther made more than $1.3 billion globally. (A sequel is due out this fall.) With the data points that Cohen collected, her team put words to their purpose: “To inspire a better world through the power of stories.” That forms the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
performance. In Montgomery County, district leaders designed a process for analyzing data, monitoring progress, identifying best practices, and making and implementing decisions with system-wide outcomes... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
successful capital campaign, from 2002 to 2006. That experience got him to thinking. Undoubtedly, alumni were making a difference at HBS. Yet Stevenson also saw ample evidence of alumni involvement in causes that extend beyond the School.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the company's View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
clearly delivering on HBS’s mission to make a difference in the world during the pandemic.” — Matt Segneri Executive Director, Harvard Innovation Labs Other student teams that responded to the pandemic... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
just like David Letterman's Top Ten, often making fun of somebody in the news. He would sometimses compile the ten from comments made in class. 1993I had an antibingo game. In this version, my neighbor and I used to hold a draft of those... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
business leader do we manage those forces? McGinnis: There's a couple of different things that you can do and I'll give you a few examples today. The first thing you need to do is... It's amazing. There's no stats out there by the way. I've read this stat that people... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
hours every day, which made it possible for me to achieve some level of work-life balance. But I had to be willing to live with not seeing as many customers, or maybe not moving into as many markets. At one point I had to make a View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
a statistic. I was determined not to be a statistic. I fell in love with finance. I fell in love with the concept of being able to take a dollar and make it into two. You can have a great vision, but if you don’t have your balance sheet... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
their combined creative synergy made the team a runner-up in the 2013 Social Enterprise Initiative new venture competition. “It’s tough, and sometimes I feel like I’m building a cathedral that could take hundreds of years,” Rewane says.... View Details