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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
leading thinkers from across the globe coming here to engage in a dialogue on three important topics: leadership in the 21st century, globalization, and the evolution of market capitalism. In addition, faculty will lead discussions on a wide range of topics, ranging... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
years, including health care and consumer goods," he says. "If we don't think of new ways to finance and save for school today, we're going to be in a world of hurt 15 years from now." —Julia Hanna View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
response. That development—one we now take for granted—is just the start of innovations in health care and beyond. According to McKinsey’s Kevin Sneader (MBA 1993), that same approach, as well as other... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
essential driver of their profits? Do US and European multinationals contribute to home-country employment? Do multinational firms exploit foreign workers? How do multinationals influence foreign policy? How will the rise of the digital economy and digital trade in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
this. Our service model at Kimpton was not service per se, it was care. What does the guest on the other side of the desk need right now? How can we properly care for them? If... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
years later, looking for a new challenge, she came across salauno. Captivated by the organization’s mission and work, she negotiated a month-long project to show the directors how she could make their operation more efficient. “I diagnosed the sales and View Details
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and implants. “One of the greatest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pharma Suits a Farm Gal
the San Diego–based company, earned Graham a spot as one of five finalists for the MarketWatch CEO of the Year award, the Dow Jones News Service (December 6, 2006) reported. Graham has reached rarefied heights after growing up on a small... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
a relationship between long-term thinking, social purpose, and success,” he says. Since taking over as CEO, Waldron has invested in the foundations of this relationship. He has focused on service to employees and on stakeholder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
develop potential business opportunities. During our village stays, faculty leader and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu has asked us to observe and think about how villagers take care of the basics of everyday life: housing, food, income,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
of our brands—Sonic and Arby’s in particular—are doing well, and doing so in more compressed timeframes, because breakfast and late-night dining are no longer part of peoples’ routines. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fifty years after the first eight women enrolled in the two-year MBA Program at HBS, 800 alumni came to campus to celebrate that milestone. As part of the School's April W50 Summit, HBS hosted two days of panels, workshops, and presentations covering everything from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and metabolic diseases in the world’s... View Details