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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
realized there's so much more we can do beyond the wonderful education we get here. There's so much more into tapping into who you are, your heart. Rebecca Katz, AMP 193. I work for an investment firm, we talk to people about retirement... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
immediate goal was to encourage MBA students to leverage their education to confront the most pressing challenges facing society. This spring, we helped teach our case study, West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward, in Professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
reading a case between serving cocktails, an Executive Education participant who was a CEO in retail gave Jackson a tip that would change her future. "He told me that anyone who worked as hard as I did was made for retail," she recalls.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Hayes teaches in and runs the Executive Education offering Strategic Finance for Smaller Businesses, serves on several committees, and is an advisor to the Dean. He also teaches in and runs the two-week summer session Analytics, an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor Frances X. Frei, the time and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
this second part of our Skydeck conversation with Immelt, we talk about the trials of the financial crisis, the loneliness of life at the top, and what his post-GE career in education and venture capital have taught him about the future... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Student Interest in Social Enterprise Is on the Rise As I sat in Burden Auditorium on a dreary Sunday back in March, surrounded by upwards of 1,100 students, I wondered whether I was witness to the arrival of a new zeitgeist. The occasion was the annual Social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
borrowers with more guidance when it comes to managing family finances? No one would argue against better consumer education and more financial literacy for Americans, in general. But the system itself caused many of these problems. We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
of the chapel. And if you’re webcasting, if somebody’s in Europe, they can be anywhere, they’re watching it on a TV screen, all they see is the chapel and the services being presented. JH: Ryan’s learning curve included an education in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
deteriorated under Saddam, so too did operational knowledge and skills, personified in the human capital destroyed in Iraq’s several wars or stifled by Saddam’s repression. But in some respects, Iraq is lucky. It has immense resources — oil, natural gas, water — and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
to be an emergency there had to be bleeding,” explains Venkat Changavalli, the CEO at EMRI. “If someone just collapsed or fell down, people would stand around and look.” A massive statewide advertising blitz and public education campaign... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
education for the farmers, who, as a result, were able to provide for their families in one of the world’s poorest countries. Across its many programs, Mercy Corps has provided about $4 billion in assistance. That figure is largely the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Quick .who was the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize? Until a few days ago, I had no clue and I’m not proud of that. That’s one reason I went to see and hear the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, as he took part in two panel discussions at HBS a few... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
revolved around weekly piano and ballet lessons—and art. “I was the poster child for the value of early education in the visual arts,” she recalls. “I studied on South Michigan Avenue, across from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). Every... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
society’s biggest problems, traffic congestion,” he says. Mistele’s network has become extensive, and the connections that began forming when he arrived at HBS continue to grow. He cites Lynda Applegate, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and chair... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
also have an educational foundation that gives out about $400,000 a year in scholarships and awards to teachers and students around the state. Is it true that you have paid taxes even when you were not required to do so? Yes. It has never... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young