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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
demands a high level of leadership expertise," says W. Earl Sasser, Jr., HBS senior associate dean for Executive Education. "The need for strong management has never been more crucial if this region is to fulfill its economic potential."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
LOVB Foundation is committed to making the sport financially accessible to all. Gao is also banking on the grace, nonstop action, and agility that make volleyball such an exciting sport to watch. “Fifty-plus years of Title IX has created a female-dominant game where no... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
Contest will be among the many to benefit from the i-lab. Inaugural i-lab director Gordon Jones thinks there’s no shortage of opportunity, noting: “I am excited by the level of desire I am witnessing within Harvard for the i-lab to become... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
WSA Speakers Kick Off W50
WSA's copresident with Deborah Singer (both HBS 2013). Barnard College President Debora Spar (PMD 62, 1991), a former HBS faculty member, described the conundrum facing women today: Despite enormous gains, the percentage of women in leadership positions View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
package-shipping outfits. They operate call centers and computer-tracking systems that can summon up your account immediately and give you the information you need right away. That's the level of service we'd like to provide for our... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition is the largest... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
potential investment. “It’s about leveling the playing field,” Aditya says. To date, the firm has connected more than 1 million investors with some 300 companies, raising in excess of $250 million. To further democratize investing, Aditya... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
a critically ill loved one without this same level of benefits. I had inadvertently created classes of employees — and by doing so, had done my part to contribute to America’s inequality problem. The new policy gives warehouse employees... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
old. It was founded to help farmers become more profitable. Right now, the American farmer struggles to find ways to access the broader market, and we think that we have an opportunity to help farmers make more money and to leverage their data in ways that can help... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
a large failing school in the Bronx. Seeing the students have to walk through metal detectors, seeing the teachers struggling to teach with even the most basic resources lacking, really inspired me on an emotional level that this is... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
board level ranks? Willie: I think what has to be different today is acknowledgement. You have incidents that get captured on camera. Everybody makes announcements. Everybody says they're going to do better and eventually nothing happens,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
classroom experience has everything to do with the level of interactivity between faculty and students, and these virtual classrooms provide a better online experience.” Students log in from their respective computers all over the world... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus, especially the people. “I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
share computer-generated results of the chaos and inefficiencies produced by inadequate information. “The level of dysfunction in such a simple supply chain is extraordinary,” says Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee. “If you just tell... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian observatory reported that carbon dioxide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Returns is a way for me to state my deep conviction that any organization, even a tax collection agency, can serve its stakeholders at higher levels than it ever imagined — if its leaders resolutely and passionately set out to do so. What... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
company. (Formerly CEO of Redbox, Kaplan now serves as interim president of Redbox and president and COO of Coinstar, Redbox’s parent company.) “Value, simplicity, and convenience,” is how Kaplan explains Redbox’s success, citing its $1.20 price point, a growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations could help break the cycle,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
large, complex corporations. According to Porter, "The program has been a tremendous success. The workshop gives all participants a unique opportunity to talk with peers about matters of mutual interest and importance, as they assume the highest View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage