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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
- 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
- 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
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
had sat hidden in a repository called Hanslope Park, 10 miles south of Northampton. (Known colloquially as spook central, it’s the real-life version of the fictionalized intelligence branch in James Bond films, where the government keeps... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
complicated than we typically think,” she says. Huang arrived at that conclusion after interviews and observations of more than 100 angel investors over the course of the past decade. She also conducted dozens of interviews with the entrepreneurs they funded; View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the culture that we had begun to develop.” After many discussions and... View Details
- 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
- Web
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
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
This study may have been more difficult to conduct if the authors were reliant on government grant funding, as is the case in many public health and medical schools. “We’re encouraged to study problems we think are important to address,” Luca explains. “So when we... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
to lose much sleep over the question. For example, Shadrick Shaili commented “China’s motive is to make the best out of any economy they have an opportunity to trade or deal with so that the benefits manifest in its people at home ... In so doing, China seems to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
Cyril Straughn-Turner (MBA 2022) sat in his office with a view of the Dallas skyline behind him and a smile on his face that conveyed something very clear – he loves his job. Landing that seat in the Invesco US office was an exercise in... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
While some took the SAT prep course without batting an eyelash, I had to think more deeply about when to take it so that I reaped the most benefit, how my family and I were going to pay for it, and how to make sure that I extracted every... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you... View Details