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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
women to the hospital. Mukhtar led improvements in the world around her. She didn’t commission a study or give advice. She confronted extremism. And if an illiterate peasant in a remote corner of Pakistan can do all that, imagine what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
Although Magagnini always knew she wanted to do something that her “children would be proud of,” she never imagined that it would involve manufacturing. At HBS, she earned a 3 in Production and Operations Management. Still, her creativity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
particularly pleased to see the business side of the story getting more and more attention. Imagine that. —James Andrew Miller (MBA ’88) served as senior executive producer of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° and EVP of original programming at... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
and the organization's impact on its members' creativity. The book also includessuggestions for managers and leaders on how to boost creativity within their organizations. HBS Research Available on World Wide Web Pondering a business problem or management issue? View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
imagine Ted Levitt was one of them.” At Antioch, Levitt met Joan Levy, who was attracted to his straightforward manner. “I was working on a paper in study hall, and he suddenly appeared and asked if I wanted to go out Saturday night,” she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
environment, and society. Imagine living a life where you have no idea what your speed is when you’re driving: This is like the society that we have built. The outcomes that we’re getting aren’t very surprising since we’re not actually... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
and I had thrived on freedom. However, after 18 years on the corporate ladder in London, I could hardly even imagine that way of being anymore. I knew I needed a break, so I put my life on hold for three months and took on what was to me... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
Photos by Genaro Vavuris At first glance, The Primary School looks just as one might imagine a neighborhood school should: A mother carrying a toddler guides her older daughter up the walkway; a teacher waits to greet the girl. Nearby,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
daunting prospect of determining which residents would receive 300 square feet of free housing (limited to families in residence before January 2000), it’s easy to imagine a nightmarish scenario of unpopular evictions and shutdowns of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
home-cleaning product line, opened nearly 500 company stores, and doubled sales (it doesn’t disclose figures). The future looked bright — until last August 29. That’s when Hurricane Katrina almost ruined everything. In the storm’s aftermath, Oreck, 54, faced a crisis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he or she needs next." EQUAL OPPORTUNITY "It's wrong to View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
or flood, or swarm—these terribly inaccurate, dehumanizing metaphors. If we started to think in individual stories, we might get much more imaginative about how we reshape the world. That’s something that I actually learned when Warren... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
from an information resource to a transaction platform in most content areas." The panelists agreed that while secure transactions can now be guaranteed, the Internet will need more compelling sites if it is to capture the imagination and... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these services or View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
machine’ and transforming how people tell and experience stories; like Traveling While Black, which puts viewers in the first-person perspective of a Black American on a road trip across the country. “But looking forward, while nothing can beat real, face-to-face... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue, it is hard to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
imagined and caused me to engage in work that (I hope) has been useful to others. Even disastrous moments in our lives, it seems, can be an opportunity for rebirth. Douglas Schofield is on the management committee and is head of the... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
outreach program that will significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced last September. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective View Details