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- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on understanding, solving, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
3 million students had benefited from DreamBox's adaptive learning technology and its colorful video-game-style math lessons. Five weeks later—with an estimated 124,000 of the country’s K–12 schools closed to prevent the spread of... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
the globe to put their skills to work on issues related to the environment, education, the arts, health care, poverty, and economic development. In the United States, fellows worked in diverse organizations such as the National Campaign to View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
very senior policymaker, “we must wait for a widespread panic to solve the political obstacles that are preventing us from acting.” I’m also often asked whether we’ve learned our lesson. To which I can confidently answer: Of course not.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
that plays a pretty significant role in your book. And I wonder if we can talk about that breach and use it as a case study. How the attackers got in, what damage was done, and how digital resilience could have prevented something like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
digs. She has unearthed evidence of ancient dwellings and dishes and literature. At a site in England, her group uncovered the imprint of a Viking ship’s prow in a riverbank. While current world events have prevented Rothberg from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
of the workshops is to develop training programs in the prevention of HIV/AIDS that can be scaled to the needs of the organization and deliver key curricular materials and models over the Internet. The challenge is to overcome the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
protectionism could prevent nations from achieving the gains - in household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality-of-life metrics - of cross-border openness. Ghemawat describes how private businesses, policymakers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Angst, Awareness, Action by Jay P. Desai (AMP 180, 2011) (Pearson) Accountability, the bedrock of governance, is under siege in India. Widespread unaccountability is preventing the country from unlocking its full economic and social... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
And stay connected: We’re all one big tribe. A former Naval aviator, Bruce Shuttleworth serves on the board of Give an Hour and is an active volunteer for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
infection-control market, a large and rapidly growing $3B global market. PhytoTEK focuses on treating and preventing biofilm-caused staph infections. Over 40M tons of e-waste is generated worldwide every year, most of which is landfilled... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
than jump into unfamiliar sectors where you don’t have all the answers. That leaves an opening for entrepreneurs to seize the new opportunities and displace you. It also makes it harder to find new ways around the barriers that prevent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
managerial capitalism, its chronic “inward focus,” and its tendency toward “organizational narcissism” as fatal limitations that prevent traditional corporations from understanding and addressing the needs of this new population. Today's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
company," says Jose Ferreira, "was to solve the twin problems of access to education and educational achievement. Only 22 percent of the world finishes high school; that is a preventable tragedy." In 2008, Ferreira founded New York–based... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of South Vietnam “were never debated at the government’s highest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
companies, he says, “It’s amazing how large a percentage of cyber attacks are completely preventable by maintaining good systems and simple practices such as password rotation and installing patches for known vulnerabilities. Combined... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
being able to take that non-paying founding job or that low-paying social enterprise and non-profit job, and you find that there’s all sorts of handcuffs of life that are preventing you from being able to go and do it. You’ve taken on a... View Details