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- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
ages 5 to 12, it intends to expand to a full K-12 curriculum for its research-based education model. “We want to create something that has to push the envelope, and then share that with the rest of the world,” Khan told NPR. “I never viewed technology as a replacement... View Details
Dorothy Schiff
Schiff was instrumental in the growth and prosperity of the New York Post. While she initially used the publication to promote her liberal viewpoints, she eventually moved the newspaper to a middle ground position. She initiated the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
William H. Danforth
In 1894, Danforth opened a feed business in St. Louis. Over the next several years, Danforth’s Ralston Purina Company established mills in St. Louis and 32 other cities in the U.S. and Canada. Danforth created the famous Chow brand name, as well as the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Joseph L. Hudson
Hudson created new department store policies including the maintenance of full inventories to permit immediate delivery, moderate prices, and liberal return privileges for customers. He was also one of the first in the retail industry to... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Portrait Project
Mina Park
many different ways, even in my own home country, and yet I desire to belong and camouflage into the background. During the last six years that I have prolonged to finish my MBA – during which I have experienced a number of losses and gains – HBS has challenged me yet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
between the liberal bishop and the GOP politician, who share an interest in putting the values of their Christian faith into action in the secular arena,” the Boston Globe (March 7, 2005) reported. Houghton, who himself at one time... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
do no more than palliate public outrage. What we need is a much more comprehensive look at the recent scandals so that we can begin to figure out what the real issues are. As a start, let's consider one of corporate America's biggest villains: Enron. Certainly the... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- Portrait Project
Mickey Millar
insulate me from the worst of this struggle. But only by grappling with the injustice—placing it square within my sights both professionally and personally—is there any chance of liberating my spirit. I will fight harder and smarter than... View Details
- Portrait Project
Greta Gerazimaite
not good enough for HBS. I no longer think that way when somebody “knocks” me in disapproval. I just raise my voice. If the only reason for coming to HBS and spending two years away from home, family, and friends was to get this View Details
- Portrait Project
Irem Metin
physically constrained in my brace liberated me in many ways. I could not hide my condition from friends. I had to explain it and ask for help. What surprised me was how deeply these conversations connected me with others. My friends... View Details
- Student-Profile
Ahmmad Brown
Even as an undergraduate, Ahmmad Brown’s (he/him) interests were far-ranging; he graduated from Swarthmore College with a joint degree in Sociology & Anthropology, and Japanese. He credits the liberal arts approach with teaching him to be... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
former state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria and founder at PPB Advisory, started SecondBite 10 years ago, reusing food had just become legalized. Today, the nonprofit has 800 volunteers serving 200 agencies in even the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
who conceived and promoted the multilateral, liberal rules comprising the international financial architecture. Whereas U.S. policymakers have tended to embrace unilateral, ad hoc globalization, European policymakers have promoted a... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
run institution outside of Shanghai that is modeled after American liberal arts colleges, with classes taught by American professors. “We want students who have the courage to pursue their desires, to know what they really want; that’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
exposure to risk. Those people with income and net worth under $107,000 can invest either $2,200 or 5 percent of their income (whichever is lower) in such companies over a given year; wealthier individuals can invest up to 10 percent of their income or wealth annually.... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Leadership for External Relations
budget, and since 1982 as associate dean of development at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In that role, Schroeder had direct responsibility for initiating, planning, implementing, and evaluating the college's development and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jayon Wang
freeze your drink. Teachers and friends all laughed knowingly, “Jayon is at it again!” For my first ‘real job’, I launched a grand plan to fix Big Oil from the inside. An Asian-American liberal kid showing up in Houston with East-Coast... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarina Hickey
NGO mission to rescue girls sold into sex slavery. Some were badly burned or beaten. Others too catatonic to know reality from nightmare. All robbed of their childhood. She passed away not two hours after our team liberated her from her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
East Side Story
In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting the position, Goodman, a fiscally conservative and socially... View Details
- Student-Profile
Erica Moszkowski
“HBS is the ideal environment because I get to think about the world like an economist, but I have the freedom and resources to draw on methods from other disciplines as I study market design and industrial organization.” Coming from a View Details