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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
being washed into the ocean, debunked some common assumptions about plastic recycling. “First, there is no island of plastic in the Pacific. Plastic breaks down, it makes more of a soup of plastic at many different depths. It often sinks, and it’s not as easy to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
characters “captured the spirit of the family,” and “there was a lot of good humor” that evoked laughter from the research audience, Crowley notes. But he also saw tears in the eyes of audience members, who also clapped at the end. The message of the movie, says... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
India's New Money Managers
big-picture questions, as well as the basics, such as, What is a mutual fund? The app also helps women invest to reach specific goals and offers regular content through the LXME blog, hitting on topics like where, and with whom, one should talk about money; how to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
in the average company in America, 25 percent of employees are directly dealing with addiction; 9 percent have an addiction problem themselves and 16 percent have a dependent or immediate family member with the problem,” D’Antonio says.... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
wouldn’t necessarily know that they are dealing with little ones at home and childcare issues. Or that they have elderly parents they have to take care of. To maximize how they show up at work, I’ve got to take the time to understand... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
first, LIFE Matrix (see below), offers insights about managing time, dealing with trade-offs between work and life, and how choices correlate with joy, meaningfulness, achievement, and life satisfaction. Another tool, currently being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
to figure out why some schools weren’t working. Now, with a humbling year of teaching under his belt, he admits that he still doesn’t have the answers and may never become the “master” he once was on Wall Street. “The truth is, I’ve learned a great View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
wanted to join a small business where I had maximum opportunity for growth. Drive-In Concessions gave that to me," he explains. Less than a year later, O'Donnell worked out a deal with Sportservice, the concessions giant that owned... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
organization more customer responsive and attuned to the needs of smaller businesses, as well as for shifting the bank's focus away from dealings with foreign governments and toward more private transactions. In 1996, President Clinton... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
life, says his widow. A few days before classes started, the Bowmans welcomed their third child. “As a young family, we were thrilled to receive fellowship support. It was a big deal for us,” says Brittanie. “Whitney wanted to make sure... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
Associates (BDA) is to help the Dean deal with the challenges that affect the School and its senior faculty. Made up of 130 alumni, friends, and their spouses, the BDA meets once a year to provide feedback on the School's latest programs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
region. After all, while it might have a Silicon Valley–like valuation and aggressive expansion plan, the organization can’t simply hire more software engineers in order to grow. And unlike the NBA’s efforts to operate in China, where it had to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
resulting in more consumers and market share, or both. And, for companies that provide these technologies mentioned above to other companies that consume products, they too must deal with the basic economics, utility, and acceptability.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
in others. Of the 1950s morality books, for example, A Man of Affairs (1957) concludes with violence when the hero tries to save the family company, where he is an executive, from an outside takeover, while staying true to his values. Contrary Pleasure (1954) also... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
"When, for instance, a professor asked how a manager in a case should deal with the issue of a defective product, I had absolutely no clue. The only way I got through the program was to prioritize and really try to shine in the subjects I... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
'61) Founder and Managing Partner Idanta Partners Ltd. Each year a host of bright-eyed entrepreneurs make their way to San Diego to explain their dreams to Dave Dunn, one of the nation's leading venture capitalists. For every seven hundred View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
is looking out the window, wondering what to do? I had 10,000 of those moments.”) She led one of the first private equity deals in Ethiopia. And as CEO of BGFI Investment banking, she oversaw the financing and the development of two ports... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details