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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
After six years at UCB, Martinez believed that serving on a board of directors could be “a meaningful and relevant option,” but she didn’t know how to make it happen. “I started researching how to get View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
thought that was a great starting point. So, if you peeping into my window is illegal for you to do as a human, a drone shouldn't be allowed to fly up and peer into my window. So, I think that there are things we could do to have smart... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
for her job interviews. So that's when on the personal level that inspiration struck me. And then I feel like on a professional level, my career up until this point had prepared me for this opportunity. I had developed a career in tech, in product management, in View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
wonderful tribute to Mike, who during almost three decades on our faculty has been a pioneer in using economic principles to solve important problems in competitiveness. In an array of groundbreaking books, articles, and papers that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
in our country and wanted to leverage our abilities to work towards solutions. What started as purely grassroots networking with peers has led to thousands of followers on Instagram, over 175 people committing to be poll workers, many... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
2019. A single-minded focus on attracting venture funding can be deleterious for other reasons, as well. “The emphasis on growth changes what you focus on and the problems you solve as you go,” says Bahadir, who got Mesken off the ground... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
students spend 15 weeks and $5,000 launching a business. Patrick Petitti (MBA 2014), Rob Biederman (MBA 2014), and their teammates started with some zany ideas—manufacturing knitted nose warmers, for instance—before settling on the model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive tasks, pattern recognition, problem solving, and honesty. These... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine applicants to the Class of 2010 got a coveted acceptance letter. Almost no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those accepted View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
on for years. Life in a growing frontier town that starts with six people and no buildings either demands frontier justice or unfolds its apparent willingness to assist the murderer's effort to avoid his fate. Indian troubles, vigilantes’... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Ventures. He expects to fine-tune his aspirations this year. “I’m fortunate that after HBS, I could start a company and actu ally solve a problem very close to my heart, or join a venture that’s doing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
lot since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At sort of its most basic level, how has this crisis changed how we communicate? Rachel: Well, this is an important time for human connection, a great opportunity for leaders to innovate in... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
playing all manner of sports, Foster says the fog began to roll in when he started college. He went through cycles of denial, struggling to make peace with his situation. Eventually though, he began to ask the question of "why me" very... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
photo by Douglas Barnes In 2011, Shiv Gaglani (MBA 2016) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins facing the same problem that confronts many medical students: staid, time-consuming lectures. Gaglani knew that the fundamental medical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
was packed for the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. — well before the usual Sunday start time for most students. I was lured to the event in part by the buildup it had gotten in the press. Weeks beforehand, Forbes named it one of the top... View Details