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25 Aug 2022
News

Ready for Departure

billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to reimagine the passenger... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

17 Jul 2020
News

Support System

midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

economic growth, which identified the tech sector as an area of potential growth. The key factor in attracting technology companies would be the strength of the talent pipeline, VEDP determined. The near-final draft of the comprehensive plan that View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jun 2016
News

Ink

Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at least 5' 10" with 1400... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

point during the spring semester of our first year, I realized that my section was having a long-term conversation. We weren’t just discussing the cases in each class, we were having a conversation that had begun the first day we sat... View Details

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

happen.” “Deep foreboding” is the opposite. How could the present moment be both? The paradox exemplifies what we heard at these events. Speaker after speaker called this year “a crossroads,” an “inflection point,” a “precipice.” As I and hundreds of others View Details

22 Jul 2015
News

Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2022
News

Turning Point: Sparking Change

Loyola University Chicago. I arrived early and sat in the empty classroom, reflecting on the fact that this was my chance to introduce the students to my passion—to get them excited about marketing as an art as well as a science. My... View Details

01 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond

Harvard. “The sense of urgency can be overwhelming, but it’s also empowering,” says Nash. “We need policy and government to bring innovations to scale, but business is where innovation begins.” We sat down with Jennifer Nash to ask her... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

to be paid. Hodgson, who is president and CEO of the parent company and a former entrepreneur-in-residence at HBS, sat down with the Bulletin to talk about how these unlikely entrepreneurs used their differences to their advantage, a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical financial data went... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling abroad, and his three kids were... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

17 Sep 2024
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

professional and personal outlook? HBS’s case method thrives on diverse opinions. When I first sat down in Aldrich 008, the classroom for my section, I heard so many different accents and opinions. My sectionmates hailed from over 30... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss retailing trends and the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

social, cultural, and legal environment. Given the prospect for continued movement toward competition and the propagation of "best practice" management ideas on a global scale, is the question largely academic? What do you think? Original Article In recent... View Details