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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
forum, titled “New Barriers and New Opportunities: Leading in an Uncertain World,” is shaping up to be a truly remarkable event. Professor Nancy Koehn, the forum’s faculty chair, has done an outstanding job... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
flexibility afforded by a smaller community with dedicated facilities (September entry MBA students didn't return to campus until mid-January) allowed us to experiment,"... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
another HBS case discussion in the spring of 1978, calculator in hand, Bricklin (MBA '79) had an epiphany: there should be a computer program that could speed up the tedious computations case analysis often demanded. His concept, the electronic spreadsheet, later... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
overcome barriers to trade. But after nearly five years, Johnston realized he wanted business exposure, too. "As a European, I was very aware that American business schools were the place View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
portfolio investor that predominantly makes asset allocation decisions. For U.S. regulators, these patterns do not recommend increasing barriers to foreign investment. Indeed, America should be rolling out... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
invoicing and similar functions," he recalls. "I wanted to connect with the US, and I thought getting an MBA there would be a good entry point. I was accepted by all of the schools I applied to, and Columbia... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Marketing. Says Godes, “There are so many different layers to this case but, in particular, it captures two important concepts: reaction to competitive entry and the rethinking... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
characterized by a high degree of mobility of capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting things done." YouthBuild USA, for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
cultural norms, et cetera. And one of the biggest things that comes to mind, to your question of what's the biggest barrier there, it's disentangling the types of knowledge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
as you get closer to the office.” Those millennials: “This is a generation that has its head in the right place. They’re much more tolerant and open—they don’t see the same sort of barriers or gradations... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes “It really comes down to putting your money where your mouth is. Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fortune 500 companies." —Dean Nitin Nohria "Eighty-two percent of women believe that prioritizing family over work is a barrier to success. Let's not let our humanity be a barrier." —Professor Robin Ely "Do... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with its low barriers View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
of entry for all new faculty for many years. Acknowledging that there is “no cookie-cutter formula” for successful discussion teaching, he nevertheless maintained that all HBS teachers need “to be able to... View Details