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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
million residents at its height, and 9th-century Baghdad vie for the title of the world’s largest city prior to 19th-century London. Today, one useful way to think about cities is to divide them into three fluid (and sometime overlapping)... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
for the neighborhood.” Adds Zuckerberg, “I don’t think you should put your values aside when you decide how you’re going to make money.” On the other hand, Zuckerberg disagreed with a community group that opposed the View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
I think CEOs should not stay too long at any company." Louis-Dreyfus believes that successful global enterprises must be decentralized. While Adidas's corporate headquarters maintains authority over the company's mission, vision, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
(HGSE). Spearheaded by Grossman and Mary Grassa O’Neill, a senior lecturer at HGSE, the Certificate in School Management and Leadership is designed to give principals the tools to build and lead high-performing schools. The program... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
been designed to create a new kind of offshore operating environment, where safety was the priority. Management attacked the safety issue from the top down, investing extensively in leadership training, policies, and practices intended to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
productively at the intersection of business, science, and technology. His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
nice, profitable Amazon play, albeit with limitations? The Answers: I’ve been in a similar situation, and I think there’s no wrong answer. I did both initially but pulled out of Amazon to build the brand on Shopify. Amazon is easier to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
the availability and cost of drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS in Africa. Fueled by doughnuts and an unsinkable team spirit, the HBS group worked for 24 hours straight to formulate the winning action plan. “We decided not only to design a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
their insights about grassroots entrepreneurship to America's larger entrepreneurial community. Two stops on the itinerary: 1. Red Ants Pants (White Sulphur Springs, MT) RAP sells USA-made work clothes designed for women, including 70... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
particularly women. Our research suggests that many women don't think they meet our criteria, when in fact they do." "We are interested in candidates of all backgrounds and ages, particularly women. Our research suggests that many women... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
four half-terms, allowing faculty more creativity in shaping innovative courses and students more flexibility in building their schedules. While less far-reaching on the surface, over time the modular approach promises to transform the elective-year experience for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
company encourages its instructors to stick to English and keep the spirituality to a minimum. “If you talk about a life philosophy, maybe that’s OK,” says DeCoons. “But I think that [yoga’s spiritual side] probably draws a little too... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
possibilities as opportunities to complement what we currently do. Let me explain. I don't think anything can substitute for the magic of what happens on our campus and in our classroom. While I know the phrase "transformational" sounds... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
experimenting with generative artificial intelligence. In recent years, enhancements to the program have included Short Intensive Programs that enable students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
then we’ve raised nearly $4 million. In this economy, I think that is a testament to how much resonance Global Citizen Year has had as an idea whose time has come.” That resonance has to do with the experience Global Citizen Year... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, the course was designed to help students understand the BRI from both an operations and a political-economy perspective. “China’s global efforts, especially its overseas... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
they are doing and I do think they will be helpful to the companies they visit. I love the whimsical side of their project, too." To date, to fund the trip, the students have raised some $13,000 of their $50,000 goal from alumni and... View Details