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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
business school development, is creating a new social impact fund to finance manufacturing in Africa. He has taught at the Institute Supérieur de Management in Dakar, Senegal, and coauthored two books focusing on the progress of African... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a nonprofit corporation... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
licensed (for free) by Bushkin’s Health Record Corporation enjoy a material new revenue stream—they are paid each time they update a patient’s medical record by sending notes or test results to HRC. Searchable PDFs are then made available... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
growing segment of new businesses in our economy and the trend is growing. Under Carla's leadership, the NWBC will be an effective advocate for women-owned small businesses, ensuring they have access and opportunity and make a strong... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
Kim Frock (MBA 1987) helped launch the Alternative School for Math & Science in Corning, New York, a middle school for science, technology, engineering, and math to give young students the skills they need to contribute to society. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Aldrich Renovations Reach Halfway Point
learn how to use all the new technology, “it’s a lot easier than one might expect,” says Hammond. “There’s a lot of upside in how we teach and how we use this to help our students grow.” View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
of credit has been around as long as commerce itself. “Credit is often portrayed as the new disease of the 20th century, yet people have been buying on credit for centuries,” says Caitlin Anderson, the exhibit’s curator and a visiting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can identify holes in their planning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
on this new information, are you still comfortable with your 90 percent estimate?” In such cases, overconfidence can diminish the inclination to compromise, with potentially disastrous consequences. “While confidence in your abilities is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Bees are cranky on rainy days.” Split hives in the spring. Creating a second hive from the original hive—“splitting the hive” in beekeeping nomenclature—helps you boost honey production, raise new queens, and prevent a hive from... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
productive dialogue. It will take deep listening, Hessan writes, and leveraging the ideals we do share to pave a new path for the future. See her methodology here. Click here to listen to our 2017 Skydeck podcast with Diane Hessan, “What... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
it’s like dating yourself. The energy and freshness come from being with someone different. I look for qualities in two people that will complement, not mirror, one another. When I begin with a new client, I ask him or her to connect me... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
maneuvered 896 tons of steel beams to support the addition to Baker Library, which will house a new Academic Center and include a south-facing entrance to Allston. Workers check the integrity of every weld with an ultrasound device,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
Malhotra. Pictured at lower right are this year’s Leadership Fellows. Photographs by Russ Campbell Every new day is a good day for Kathy Giusti (MBA ’85) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist took her hand, looked her in the eye,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Henderson notes that there are about 200 HBS-authored cases on the environment extant, with more to come at the rate of about 30 to 40 a year. “We’ve launched several new MBA courses and are looking at how we can get more involved in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
guaranteed new music they’ll enjoy, unlike recommendations based on more superficial data, such as purchasing patterns. Music stores were SBT’s customers, but Kennedy’s innovative idea was to reinvent SBT as a personalized Internet radio... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
not and how that will impact us. — PC On deck: We’re opening two new Finale desserteries this year, in Brookline and in Providence. The longer-term plan is to expand across the United States. We believe we can open 200 locations in the... View Details