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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
It's Show Time, Folks
For the School's newest alumni, Commencement marks the culmination of hours of hard work and the promise of new beginnings. For staff working behind the scenes to welcome thousands of visitors from all over the world, it's a logistical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
alumni-focused conferences bringing together key businesspeople to talk about best practices and promising business models. A conference on water, for example, is slated for next spring. We’re also hoping to support more conventional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
renewables and the promise of meeting the Paris Climate goals by 2050, says Assistant Professor Jorge Tamayo. His paper, “Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams, and the Energy Transition,” examines Colombia’s example for lessons on the... View Details
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
than they have. The majority hate Trump’s tweets and believe that the media is biased,” she writes. In spite of this, our beliefs about the other side keep us inexorably divided. What to do about it? Presidential promises for unity aren’t... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
and are now conducting field work using data mining, people analytics, crowdsourced solutions, and longitudinal studies, among other approaches, to address business and society’s greatest challenges. “We continually aspire to be both rigorous and relevant. That’s the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
made promises that reality couldn’t keep, such as claiming Lucky Strikes (“Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”) improved throat health. He preferred to do business directly with chief executives and made many powerful and lasting... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
ensure the strength of engineering and applied sciences at Harvard for the benefit of generations to come,” said Harvard President Drew Faust, when she announced the gift. SEAS Dean Frank Doyle SEAS Dean Frank Doyle “SEAS is the next frontier for Harvard, and its... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year
Over three hundred enthusiastic alumni and guests gathered at New York City's Plaza Hotel in February for the first annual HBS Club of Greater New York Entrepreneurs' Exhibition and Conference. Along with exhibits from promising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
deliver on hope. “Providers of fertility treatments are selling the promise of a child, the dream of a family, but at some point they have to come through,” said Spar. Privacy is a factor as well. “Acquiring a child is an intimately... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
millennia. Ubiquitous communication is allowing people to rapidly compare how they’re doing with others. When countries promise a lot and deliver little, they end up as brands no one wants to support. How would you describe the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Promises by D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen (HBS Press) What happened to IBM? That is the question posed by authors Quinn Mills, the School's Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, and Bruce Friesen (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
promising research into commercialized ALS drugs. The other, Prize4Life (www.prize4life.org), is a nonprofit that will raise $10 million in incentives to encourage researchers to seek effective ALS treatments. Says Nate Boaz (MBA ’06),... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
COVID-19. The largest group of Promise applicants at CCRI comes from families making less than $25,000 annually. Can you speak to how the program opens doors for students and provides a boost to local economies? Higher education is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
of the Republican Party. His Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise never to raise taxes, has been signed by President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) and most Republican members of Congress. But his influence extends beyond tax issues. Since... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
This spring, while the Class of 1998 was preparing to leave HBS to launch promising careers in business management, they, along with the entire HBS community, were also struggling to come to terms with a disturbing situation that existed... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
the internal whispers telling her that her real love centered on children and families, however, she moved to Chicago and began a promising career as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett, Inc. "It was a great experience," Small says,... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
possibilities in Asia and Central America. Scharpf and other newcomers to social entrepreneurship are the grateful beneficiaries of pioneering work by people like Linda Rottenberg, CEO and cofounder of Endeavor, a global organization that mentors View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
really represented this promise of economic mobility. It’s important for any student who’s planning to go directly into the labor market after they finish their undergraduate degree to start the career exploration process as early as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
way.” Upon graduation, he fulfilled the promise he’d made to his father and brothers and returned to the family business to apply what he’d learned and take the company to the next level. “I came out of HBS with a much deeper and broader... View Details