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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Real Deal
the homeless that he anticipates the creation of a $20 million housing trust fund.“To progress together, we need to understand the needs of others,” Leppert declared. Described by the News as “a career businessman and self-made... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
along with the plan. It worked with IBM to solidify blockchain’s functionality and security and found a willing, technologically progressive client in the Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The final piece was bringing in similarly... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans. The Able Archers By Brian J. Morra... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
that was in scarce supply, as Khoja and his team worked under the six-month deadline. “We’d have a huddle session every day at 7 a.m. and say, okay, what do we need to do to get to launch?” he recalls. “It didn’t matter who did what—we’d assign that day’s tasks and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
risk? Just because you would gladly pay a higher capital gains rate doesn’t mean others would. Brian W. Keane (MBA 1986) Potomac, MD Both Sides Now LaMagna has fallen into the trap set by those who believe “fairness” runs only in one direction. Even if I believed in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and company profitability” and found that unconventional gas and oil... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
“HBS has always been good at running experiments — reinforcing the ones that make progress and killing the ones that don’t,” says HBS professor of management practice Joseph B. Lassiter, who, together with Sahlman, worked with student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
progression through the ranks. In 2005, he was named chief of Naval Operations, and two years later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked him to serve as the country’s highest-ranking military commander. Having spent most of his career in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
members—and its search for someone to lead the Endowment. “Activision wanted to take a different, business-minded approach to a growing social problem, one where government assistance wasn’t succeeding,” Goldenberg says. “We actually have a Professor Simons–inspired... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
United States had little to show for its investment before a new administration slashed funding. In the 1980s, California’s progressive energy initiatives led to a massive boom in wind energy, but when the policies expired, the entire... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
check the progress of games through open archways in the right field wall, the team offers budget-conscious fans “dynamic pricing” — a Baer innovation that makes tickets to less popular games available at reduced rates. Proving the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
prominence began as a social process of “cultural consecration” within the artist’s own community and on the city’s streets, then progressed to high-profile shows and museum exhibits. “That part is certainly about social legitimacy and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Lecturer John Macomber. Macomber, who spent three decades in the real estate and construction business prior to joining HBS in 2007, is committed to making real progress on some of the problems that face African nations. He designed an... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
been quite a significant retrenchment in terms of their ability to manage work and life. And the most progressive employers have added supports so that individual working families have been able to balance that work and that life. And... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS professors working on Asia-related research to present their work... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
audience shifted in their seats and went “Ooohhh!” Wails of laughter. It had hurt good. The best lesson I learned at HBS: The big progressive companies spent 20 percent of their profit on R&D. Twenty percent of my time—one day a week—I do... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that eliminates the penalty to saving; a... View Details