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- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
the new top band leaves, because they have optionality. And so we do have this quicksand that we're sucking ourselves down into, for very seemingly logical reasons, that creates a system failure and continues to suck down the labor market. JF: So when you describe it... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
While some people end their careers with a focus on philanthropy, Bob Higgins began his that way. After graduating from HBS, he spent nine years with three different private foundations, each with a deep interest in health care. Today,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
9th Congressional District, who serves on the Appropriations Committee which controls the federal budget. “Given the current market conditions and political dynamics, we wanted to understand the path forward for social enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
organization to better understand how it functions and grows. “For me there was something very important about being able to converse and analyze a situation from many angles––investor, manager, employee––to see a business from multiple... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
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The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
receiving his admonishment for spending too much time on too many things, getting tempted by too many things. Instead, have your own sense of direction. Where do you think the world is going? And then just pick one or two ideas and go really deep, and get a very, very... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
to understand what some of these things meant. In Lagos, I'd never seen a water fountain before. And so when I heard the word fountain, there's only one thing and it's the one you throw coins into. And obviously, I got involved in being a... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Organizational Behavior. I have invited them to become co-travelers with me on this journey for the next eighty minutes. I have invited them into my “mad scientist lab.” And I need their focus and interest to be inside the classroom, with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
regard to work—it’s mostly us coming together as a team and really understanding one other. Even our Slack channels have things like break rooms to replicate water cooler chat. We’ve got fitness channels—and I’m in that, challenging my... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
already at work. Anderson guides readers on how to survive and thrive in corporate spaces, how to take a more strategic approach to their careers, and how to understand themselves and others more deeply. In addition, the book provides... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
instance, in tiny poor villages in China that I was trying to write about poverty in China. And here it was in the US. April: Was there something that you came to understand about the lives of your friends in Yamhill that you hadn't... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
cousin Nadia with unit conversion. I said, ‘I’m 100 percent sure you can understand this stuff. How about we get on the phone and I’ll tutor you?’ Pretty soon, I was helping many more cousins.” Lights, camera: “A friend suggested I make... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
the African continent. "Step Change" is the story I wrote to try to understand how a person—and a country—can adapt and evolve so quickly—as well as the ups and downs that come with that growth. It's published in the March issue of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
want everyone to be able to touch the trophy,” declares an elated Baer, who well understands the innate desire for tangible proof of a championship that was over half a century in the making. “It belongs to Giants fans everywhere.” Baer’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different roles in a family business drama... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
here at HBS. Then actually got called up by one of my portfolio companies that I had led as a private equity investor and ran M&A and strategy. So that was my coming out of that. What I found most interesting about the story is I left... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Groysberg. “At Williamsport, Toby worked to understand the organization and get the employees involved, so when it was time for buy-in and action, they were ready to go. She’s a high-potential leader.” And an open-minded one as well: “I... View Details
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