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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
“Too often, they’ll design something for what they think their customers’ needs are, and they haven’t developed plans to test these assumptions.” #2 Aiming for perfection: “You want to go to market with a minimally viable product and get... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
collaborative efforts across Harvard to integrate learning and leverage the University’s impact. Summer 2017 marked the seventh year for PRIMO, which was designed to develop research and writing skills, creativity, and a sense of View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
commitment to social impact. He also wanted to know what motivated it, as well of its ultimate impact. In March 2016, Stevenson and a team of researchers launched a project to better understand and communicate that impact. To date, the... View Details
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- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
Associate Professor George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Michael E. Porter was an associate professor at HBS when he first developed his now-renowned five forces framework for strategy. Likewise, Clayton M. Christensen advanced the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
conventional energy development and are steering clear of these heavily subsidized green alternatives. Robert G. James (MBA 6/1948) New York, NY That’s Me! In the March issue’s Last Look photo of a group of women in military fatigues, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of the Pine Mountain Settlement... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Making products that change the world
As the CEO of Corning, Wendell Weeks (MBA 1987) is developing products that will have a positive impact on the world and leading the company to serve the local community. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business education) and immediately moved to Florida, where I was involved in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 04 Apr 2019
- News
Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond
of the Executive Leadership Council, a prestigious membership organization dedicated to developing an inclusive business leadership pipeline for top-level black executives. At Blackhouse, he chairs an initiative that debuted in 2007 with... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
things happen to people and they are forced to live off of food stamps or go to soup kitchens and food pantries to get their meals," she says. The New Jersey native recalled that her own earliest altruistic efforts—performing Gilbert and Sullivan musicals at nursing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s early clients, HCZ needed help... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
marketplace on people's lives. The authors believe there are deep differences of worldview and language that need to be addressed before church and business professionals can truly communicate on this problem. "The church could be one of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
demonstrate to helping the farmworking community and themselves, the students receive ‘investments’ from a variety of sources, including the RFDF and individuals. More than 200 students are participating in the Exchange, and about 50... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm that focuses on rural America. Since 1986, Agracel, based in Effingham, Illinois, has completed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
experiences and perhaps even combine them with courses and offer academic credit.” The China Immersion, January 2–13, took sixty-five students to Beijing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Sanya, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, where the group experienced firsthand the economic, political,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
WuDunn Photo Courtesy Sheryl WuDunn Girls matter — we take that for granted here in the developed nations, and we all expect our daughters, sisters, and wives to make a difference in the world. But take a moment to think about another... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
access encrypted data on the phone so contact tracers can notify those who have been near the person and provide them with health care guidance. The development of the app—an example of government-supported technological innovation for... View Details