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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And then you’ve got to hold that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
From that vantage point, he observed social media's key role in the Arab Spring and was so impressed that he joined Twitter as an adviser. When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, Kondo saw how Twitter enabled the country's institutions and agencies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
university in Warsaw. The SB officers wanted to recruit Maj as an informer among the student ranks. Teenaged Maj was not an activist. He had spent his childhood in a small town about 50 kilometers outside Kraków, far from the workers’... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
You're really looking for the sweet spot of contribution and passion. To me that accounts for a ton of great “leader A” days. April: You raised a really good point. This sort of clarity that these principles can offer in the working world... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
be talking to, here’s the content, here’s where you’re at in your career, given the information you’ve provided to us,” that becomes much more relevant for alumni. Everybody talks about the HBS network, but it happens serendipitously and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
was thoroughly engaging intellectually,” says Reade of her years in the investment business. “We were detectives, piecing together the information to figure out the value of basic businesses.” Ultimately, however, she felt dissatisfied,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
customers use Starbucks as a regular hangout or informal office — a "third place" between home and work. How has this aspect of the stores evolved over time? In the beginning, we knew on an intuitive level that Starbucks was about far... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
just have automatic deductions from their paychecks, and it either goes directly to an organization they care about it, or it goes directly into a separate account that they then use and that account is... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
environments," Sahlman says. "It is an integrative course in which managers can learn to use the financial perspective to inform resource acquisition and allocation decisions." Today the Entrepreneurial Management unit includes five full... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
51 years later? First, my years in the Navy were anything but a dead end. I supervised 70 sailors, providing accounting and logistic services to a scout submarine squadron. My boss, commander, and later a Rear Admiral, Ted Walker, was one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
focus their energy based on how people’s spending is changing. Also, it's forcing us to think more about the non-spending aspects of someone's carbon footprint. Right now, we ask people for some survey information to tell us about their... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
strategy DM: She's thinking about energy cost and capacity, but she's also concerned with emissions. MK: We can't sell gross carbon removal; we only sell net carbon removal. So we as a company need to take into account any of the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
accounting books and doing things that hurt a lot of people at the end of the day. On a personal level, I lost two children. My wife was expecting triplets. Happiness comes within. It doesn't matter what happens to you, the choices you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, has yet to run its course. It’s no accident that all these... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
impacted the most vulnerable, especially children, and how to deliver the most effective aid. The event will feature firsthand accounts from HBS and Harvard community, with a focus on emergency survival, safety, health/medicine, shelter,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
They are there to decide. And in business, you must often decide quickly, without complete information or the time to consider every alternative or resolve every uncertainty. Because, of course, to decide slowly is sometimes to decide too... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
The entire process -- from ad to purchase -- might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions, Web technology can also help advertisers meet two of the industry's biggest challenges:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not frontmen) in all banking and... View Details