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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
activating two forces that enable progress: catalysts (events that facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy) and nourishers (interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in automobiles and interstates and great... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called TechnoServe. At TechnoServe, Lu worked... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
that make achieving the agreement’s goals so difficult. “I wrote the case to better understand how so many of us view climate change as both a global threat and one of the most important issues facing business in the 21st century, and yet so little has been done about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
Ilana L. Goldman (MBA ’02) always knew that she wanted to work in the public sector. But she didn’t expect to find herself back on the HBS campus just eighteen months after graduation talking about her new job. Goldman is vice president... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather than fund politically driven... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
San Francisco, about leading her city through these turbulent times. The webinar, “Black Mayors on the Front Lines: A Conversation with Mayor London Breed,” was moderated by Michelle Miller, the news anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
in Harvard Business School. “I knew I needed more education to even figure out what the solution should be,” she says. Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) with Trey Athletes cofounder Brian Reynolds Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) with Trey Athletes cofounder Brian Reynolds It was... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
culmination of those 130,000 words is a deeply personal and poetic recounting of Casey’s life, crafted not as a memoir, but as an intervention. READ MORE Morrell: We're here to today to talk about your book, but I want to start by talking about your View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there for nearly two years when they... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
are actively collaborating with members of the Entrepreneurial Management unit. Michael Wheeler, a lawyer and specialist in real-estate development, investigates the conflicts and negotiations that often result when private development interests collide with... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
stop cigars and pipes on our flights." We had to go to the government to get approval of that, a simple decision like that, just to give an example. And obviously fares, you could do nothing major in the fare area. AW: You're starting to hear at this point some View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the right to access a clean sanitary toilet at home and in public places.” JH: The coalition has been involved in many local projects looking to improve sanitary conditions in their communities. One example... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
two, as an investor, [to] facilitate also the channeling funds to projects that can help achieve that goal. When you speak about climate change, you cannot advise it if you don't have everybody play a role in it. “While you're addressing... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Turning Point: Network Effects
measuring up, especially from those who by most conventional measures had indeed measured up. Many offline conversations spun out of that; moments of honesty and openness did an amazing amount of good. It’s an experience that dovetails... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)