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- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
mobile cooking, and all that sort of stuff. Tell me about when you felt confident enough to make that jump to brick and mortar. BC: Yeah, my first move was I got home from Italy. I immediately ordered this bag of flour. It turns out now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
where we try to ease the pain of the death of at least one, possibly two, of these companies. That’s wise because it would be a tremendous shock to confidence if unemployment was to suddenly leap up by a million or more. But the long-term... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
December 2001 had severely eroded investor confidence and prompted Congress to legislate sweeping corporate reforms contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Donaldson’s predecessor, Harvey L. Pitt, had been forced to resign under pressure.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
confidence in the currencies is closely linked to the soundness of the financial sector." WSA: Shattering the Glass Ceiling This year's Women's Student Association (WSA) conference, "Women Who Have Shattered the Glass Ceiling," attracted... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
harassed and humiliated by IRS employees. Congress responded by passing the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, which called for both regaining taxpayers' confidence and collecting taxes more efficiently by overhauling the agency's... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
well when he was later elected student body president at the University of Washington. During his senior year, a faculty advisor encouraged him to apply to Harvard Business School, which Nielsen describes as a "life-changing experience" that boosted his View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
as an investment manager? A focus on earning the trust and confidence of our clients and providing them with compelling value for their money. Has your philosophy of value investing changed over the years? We’ve put more and more emphasis... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
students and recent graduates, incoming MBA students, and mid-career professionals. A recent survey of 1,000 past participants showed the impact that completing an HBS Online course can have on a person’s life and career. Among the highlights: 90 percent feel more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
all the quests earns the title of Questmaster—something that not even Ellis has accomplished. And that’s not the point, he says: “Having a team that fails over and over again together on the way to success is really valuable, because the team builds View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69) credits much of her business confidence and acumen to her years at Harvard Business School, where she was the first black woman to receive an MBA. But those two years, exhilarating and educational as they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
and Polli are proving that it is possible to turn algorithms into instruments for reducing bias and inequity, rather than perpetuating them. At least for now, Zhang sees little evidence that the largest tech companies are doing the same, but she is View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
women are transforming their confidence and graduating with real business plans in tech, climate change and other growing areas,” she said. “By harnessing technology, we can meet students where they are and deliver a powerful business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
mandatory waiting-period laws.) This natural experiment provided a second approach for the researchers to explore the causal impact of waiting periods, and it confirmed the initial results, bolstering the team’s confidence in its... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
increased focus on initiatives that instill confidence and dignity,” Shumway reports. All Ideas on the Table Implementing a long-planned succession strategy, Shumway stepped away from his CEO role at Cicero in 2017 and has since combined... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
was mixed. On the negative side, alumni were five times more likely to see public confidence in government as "the same or worse" in 2025 compared with today. Both older and younger alumni saw "values/morality" and "rich/poor disparity"as... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
“You’re able to see how real people have tried the products so you get a sense of how they work for someone just like you,” says Shah. “We source the video reviews from a diverse community of real people across all skin tones, all ages, and all body types to give... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
MBA degree from the University of Karachi, suitcases full of all my saris from my dowry, and an enormous amount of confidence — I’d almost say of naive confidence — in my ability to secure a corporate job at... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
Blaze in order to have a monthly magazine that could concentrate solely on hip-hop music and culture. Launched with much fanfare and a tremendous vote of confidence from advertisers in August 1998, Blaze calls itself the "fifth element"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
eyebrows with his provocative rhetoric. A master of hyperbole, he once declared that he wanted to “reduce government to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” Rhetorical flourishes aside, his stock in Washington has never been... View Details
Keywords: Government