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- 25 Jan 2018
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A Whole New Game
According to research compiled by the Federal Reserve, cities, not suburbs, are now the leading generators of US economic growth. From 2010 to 2016, urban populations grew faster than those in the suburbs, reversing a nearly 70-year-old... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
position, and enjoyed higher cumulative wages (by 3.4 percent). Gompers, who was an all-American runner and held the 10,000-meter record at Harvard for 30 years, attributes the differences to a few soft skills, the most obvious being teamwork and leadership. “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
experiences that often suggest interesting lines of research for our faculty to pursue. It’s a virtuous circle: Academics study business practice and practitioners, their research “product” then influences practice, which in turn leads to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In the 1970s, women's professional basketball was just getting off the ground in the US, but in Europe, it was thriving. There were these club teams in places... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
When I graduated from Stanford, I had the opportunity to travel with an elite amateur team doing bike races, or I could go join a structural design firm in Pittsburgh. That was my choice. I chose to race bikes. I love the sport. I love... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
This year’s New Venture Competition saw heavy alumni participation on both sides of the judging. More than 160 graduates critiqued student startups during April’s on-campus event, weighing everything from team chemistry to financials. The... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
mayors and key staff in Israel every year. Bloomberg writes that, while there are “all kinds of leadership training programs for CEOs and senior executives, mayors are thrust into the job and the crises that arise without having a lot of resources to draw upon.” The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
Kerr: There’s a lot of alignment between general management and entrepreneurial management. We define entrepreneurship following the early work of Howard Stevenson at HBS as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.” What entrepreneurs and their View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
leader to shoulder blame rather than search for excuses. Everything that happens is ultimately the leader’s responsibility anyway, and promptly taking ownership of a difficult situation means that you can lead your View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, leading efforts on social inclusion, gender equality, youth support, anti-racism, sports values, and scientific ethics, including AI governance. She spearheaded UNESCO’s AI Ethics Recommendation,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
successful projects possible. Codename: Blackjack By Rusty McClure (MBA 1975) and David Stern Ternary Publishing A mysterious phone call brings Espy Harper and The Cincinnati to a rendezvous where she learns an accident was actually a murder, triggering a chain of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
Industry, on events leading to the January 2009 Chrysler-Fiat partnership “If the work was outsourced, you were guaranteed 100 percent of your pay. You could come sit in the cafeteria and ‘work’ all day, but there was no work to do.... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler Jr., MBA 1956
When Dick Spangler was tapped to lead HBS's first capital campaign with a mission to raise $500 million, he regarded the request as "the ultimate cold call." But it was one he was pleased to answer. In his initial campaign letter to... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
support and market their film,” says Simon, senior director of marketing at Hain Celestial, a leading natural and organic food company based in New York and maker of Terra Chips, a brand of unique vegetable chips, including its signature... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
my internship at YouTube during HBS that I realized I could make a career out of these interests. The YouTube TV team was just starting to form in summer 2015 with a goal of reimagining cable TV and I was really intrigued by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
a family business, her team spoke to more than 1,100 CEOs, eventually finding striking differences in managerial styles and productivity in firms run by family members relative to their external counterparts. Over the past several years,... View Details