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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
inefficiently — amounts that far exceed residential and personal use. And with the global population skyrocketing, the demand for water to sustain, feed, and employ the world’s people is projected to double by 2025. View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
Try something else. But really open your eyes. Xavier Paternot (MBA 2002): Xavier Paternot, 2002. Make career decisions based on your, on your guts and your, and your heart, and not on- on your head. Hang Li (MBA 2006): Hang Li, MBA,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
by the late Harvard minister Peter Gomes. Daniel Deronde, because there’s no limit to how George Eliot can deepen our sense of our own humanity. I’ll also finish C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, which is a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and results-driven—and it gets the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
together to produce “leaders who make a difference not just in the world but for the world.” Leadership Takes Center Stage Just how to make a difference dominated the leadership discussion that opened the summit on Monday. The topic was taken up View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
a wheelchair handball player for the Dutch National team and competed at the European Handball Tournament in Croatia. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, offers insight into what it means to be a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
Kathy Giusti, from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation; Trevor Fetter, formerly CEO of Tenet Healthcare; Ginger Graham, currently a board member with Walgreens and Proteus Biomedical; and Gail McGovern, president and CEO of the American Red Cross. The VRTs are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
had to be a different answer. My first book on this topic, The Innovator’s Dilemma, explored my theory that developing advanced technologies is rarely the primary challenge for leading firms. Rather, the stumbling block lies in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Another grassroots initiative, the 91101 Group, was organized by Daniel F. Curran (MBA '00), a research associate at HBS, along with colleagues and classmates from HBS and the Kennedy School of Government.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
give the nation’s schools a grade of C or below. That mix of approval locally and misgivings nationally translates into an attitude of “Let’s work to improve the model we’re used to,” according to a September Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll. The survey’s findings indicate... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
John B. Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977). As of the two-year anniversary, 25 regional events have taken place from Miami to Mumbai. In Chicago and New York, audiences were empowered by Associate Professor Amy Cuddy’s explorations into... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rivals, how to grow power and influence without losing the respect of others, how to learn from the rise and fall of predecessors, and how to craft one’s legacy. The Rise and Demise of the Individual by View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and complexity of simulations in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
back to LaGuardia in time for an evening show, then 5 am back at Logan, stopping only for a coffee at Spangler before rushing to class. That was also the week she had her first cold call. But somehow, she says, she made it to her EC year. View Details