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- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) didn’t plan to become a businessman. The Canadian-born DeFehr always imagined life as a diplomat—until he ran afoul of the FBI. As a college student in Indiana, DeFehr had become involved in anti-Vietnam protests and... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
believe that these extraordinary times call for massive public funds to be used for economic interventions, shouldn't these efforts be at least partially designed to promote new enterprises? Second, in many nations the venture industry is on View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
alumni working in health care. It has since grown to a global membership of more than 800 alumni and offers substantive programming and networking opportunities year-round. “I founded the club because I was pursuing a career in health... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His father graduated from MIT with... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data Science Is Disrupting the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
today was planned and constructed. Students who like to lounge in an armchair at Spangler or work out at Shad might be interested to hear what life was like before a Soldiers Field campus existed. “You had... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
destination was difficult to find or nonexistent. The inspiration for AbilityTrip grew out of their determination not to let Darren’s injury define his life or limit their ability to travel. Since launching AbilityTrip two years ago,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years, Moderna had been working closely... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
and problem solving, he told the gathering, "It is important to recognize that what we are doing here in Hong Kong is a hallmark of the School. We bring together important people to work on important problems. This is an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
either mitigation or adaptation. It’s both. Businesses can and must play a key role in driving society’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Professor John Macomber, a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, has been View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
transparent. Clean Water Contestants DetoXyFiRishon Benjamin, MBA 2022We aim to provide everyone with access to clean drinking water by commercializing low-cost, natural, comprehensive water filtration devices. Ocean CycleRobert Goodwin, GMP 2007OceanCycle View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
Life at HBS The newly renamed HBS PRIDE Alumni Association (formerly HBS LGBT Alumni Association) recently welcomed an audience of nearly 150 alumni and current HBS students to a multi-generational panel discussion titled “Five Decades of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do creative ideas come... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The company provided a job for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer