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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Mehra (MBA 2009) Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009) Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) Brian Elliot (MBA 2008) Friendfactor — SEF 2010 honoree Friendfactor is a social-action nonprofit that aims to View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
understand two fundamental things about himself: “One, I am hardwired to run something and make things happen through people. And two, I wanted to lead with purpose.” That’s when he decided to apply to HBS.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. The desire to produce thought leadership at a fast pace, the Dean... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
reforms. Education and health care are the country’s two most formidable challenges, Chidambaram observed. Stating that India must become “a knowledge society,” he noted that while the country is known for... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
greater societal equality and a fiduciary obligation to shareholders, she writes. Like so many companies before us, my company, Rent the Runway, had two tiers of workers. Our salaried employees — who typically came from relatively... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
revealed the telecom giant’s “extreme willingness” to hand over billions of emails—revelations that galvanized Professor Nien-hê Hsieh and Senior Lecturer Henry McGee. “Seeing a huge company in the middle of these privacy issues felt like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
confined mostly to entrepreneurs? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5887.html. Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy Who you know and how much money is in your pocket have always been... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
as well as reduce the corporate tax rate, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. The idea was the brainchild of Eacho and George Frampton, a lawyer who worked on environmental issues at Covington & Burling View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
attitudes and objectives of students and faculty at HBS had been fairly consistent from one year to the next, but the early '70s marked a turning point. The School was not immune to the unprecedented social... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the 1960s, he felt himself drawn toward nonprofit activities. Upon graduating from HBS, Lazarus took the advice of a classmate and joined the Peace Corps in Panama, where he worked to develop a business training View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
massive stack of the hotel’s records. “The amount of paper, it’s incredible,” he says. Benedetti’s revelation of the water delivery is a slight surprise to Megumi Gordon (MBA 2014), cofounder and managing partner of HabanaLive, an... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
characterized by a high degree of mobility of capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
relationship. Combining our strengths will be profitable, both politically and economically. What’s the toughest thing you’ve had to do in your job? When I first joined M&M Ltd., I had to dismiss some very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Horizon Wind Energy. “It was a very small business, but we got lucky with land positions and were able to build it to pretty good scale,” notes Skelly, who served as the company’s chief development officer. “When it got too big for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
also cofounded a health-care systems education site (www.improvehealthcare.org) at HMS and a discussion group composed of students at the Medical School. “We need to focus on wellness View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice