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- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
more stereotypic assumptions. From a strictly economic perspective, companies with more women in senior leadership and board positions, on average, financially outperform those with fewer according to Catalyst’s research. Organizations... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Stewart (MBA 1983) address Black female leadership. Noting that a group of unicorns is called “a blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological, and economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
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Casey Gerald
schools such as Stanford, Columbia, Babson and UCal Berkeley, traveling more than 40,000 miles into 28 cities and towns to work with 50 entrepreneurs across the heart of America. “We have three measures of success,” Gerald said. “First, is it View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
in November 2004 by Princeton University Press. Jaffe is professor of economics and dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. In Innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
and ultimately settling in the Chicago area. Over his 25 years in ministry, his business training and experience have been invaluable tools to help him connect with parishioners “facing moral and ethical dilemmas in the marketplace.” After the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based in Waltham, Mass., that for more than 60 years has developed View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
net return of 13.7 percent (an upper-quartile fund begun in that year had a return of 20.4 percent) (Venture Economics 1997). These calculations of Xerox's internal rate of return (IRR) do not include any ancillary benefits generated by... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive to have a discussion about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be perceived as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA
discussing Argentina’s skyrocketing inflation rate with students, Gerardo Lietz notes that they didn’t fully comprehend how it has affected the economy and consumer behaviors until they were in country. “They were surprised by the extent to which the cultural and View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already economically... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
annual conference, organized by the HBS Women’s Student Association, attracted participants from 24 other schools as well. New to the program this year was the honoring of HBS alumnae for their work in technology, “special services,”... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
It’s hard to say who’s right, however. Outside of a few high-profile examples like Brin, there have been virtually no data to gauge the level at which immigrants create companies and jobs. Kerr has sought to remedy that problem with a new National Bureau of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding