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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Turning teddy bears into art On a trip to London in the 1980s, John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) and his wife snapped a picture of two teddy bears posed near a Buckingham Palace guard. The normally staid guard bowed to the bears, and the couple... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
granted in the United States that there are people you can turn to for advice about entrepreneurship,” says Cindy Ko, vice president of international expansion at Endeavor, a nonprofit economic-development organization based in New York.... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
member, "depressing." Such pessimism seems more than a little counterintuitive. In a global economy, corporations have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that demand, business schools View Details
- Portrait Project
Aalek Mehta
I found purpose in a dusty back alley in Mumbai, in the innocent voice of an eight-year-old boy zipping around a dilapidated orphanage without a care in the world. Harish's only possessions were his smile and a positive outlook I envied.... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
setting up their own digital service teams. That's a big win for us, and we're always trying to encourage people to take jobs in government and have government hire technologists. And the final thing is to turn this into a movement, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
Douglas Schofield (MBA 1969/DBA 1972) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Douglas Schofield (MBA 1969/DBA 1972) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Like many HBS alumni, I’ve experienced a number of turning points over the years. Some I initiated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New School for New Orleans
charter-management organization designed to turn around failing schools. When Hurricane Katrina struck, Alford was teaching at a charter school in Baltimore. He moved to the Big Easy, where he founded and is... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
research associates Erika Ferlins and Laura Feldman, students are assigned the parts of six managers or engineers who were involved in the Columbia mission. After logging into their password-protected role, students watch, read, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
that it has a good product and that it can bring favorable returns to investors," she says. "But that's just part of the package. It must also assemble a management team that brings a combination of influential and complementary... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Profile
Naiyya Saggi
since I felt an immediate kinship with this interpretation. Moreover, as a lawyer turned management consultant, I was looking to build a strong foundation to my business skills. An HBS education was... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
Henri-Louis Bergson’s injunction: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
drive-through restaurant with low prices that appealed to working-class families. “The company has built its brand around family dining, so that is especially important to its culture,” explains Paine. Despite its ubiquity, McDonald’s... View Details
- Profile
Tim Nicolette
Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m the president of UP Education Network in Boston. We serve as a third party administrator for our district clients, charged with the responsibility for turning View Details
- Web
A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century, conditions in the American economy and in society merged to satisfy the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
ideas can come from anywhere — inside or outside, up or down an organization.” Sorrell, whose firm places up to one-third of all the advertising seen around the world, addressed the challenges WPP Group faces in developing a global... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
initial caution, growth when it came was both fast and steady. When he sold the company in 1999 to the Spanish food conglomerate Campofrio, TelePizza spanned six countries with more than 600 outlets selling some $250 million worth of pizza a year. He had View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
CSR record make a convenient target for the media, the authors turned to sociological studies. These show that readers like unexpected news—explaining why accidents at the greenest companies were widely covered—but those same readers also... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
of nonprofit managers to HBS Executive Education programs. “Social enterprise is one of the common threads that connect HBS alumni clubs, regardless of size or geographic location,” notes Goff. “The Global Outreach Program provides a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
continue as Intuit went public (in 1993), grew enormously (today, it has nearly 8,000 employees, and annual revenues are around $3.9 billion), and routinely won accolades as one of America’s most innovative companies. As chairman of the... View Details