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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the challenge of teacher retention in public schools
Melissa Wu (MBA 2008) explains her work with TNTP to research teacher retention patterns and best practices for America's public schools. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and projects so well that she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Bloom admits. "It's not difficult conceptually, but as a practical matter, it's challenging to conduct baseline surveys before an investment and to track and measure students for the years that follow." With that understanding, decisions... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
aspirations, purpose, and values, so that they work together as an aligned team." Dan Vasella finds that the skills he called upon as a practicing physician are equally useful in running one of the world's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
“It was case teaching in real time,” she says, describing how students were divided into teams and sent out into Shanghai with Chinese translators to complete a variety of one-day field projects with the goal of identifying business... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management Systems Corporation, a consulting firm that focused... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
ultrasound technology—had fumbled with a book that fell to the floor during the exam. Oishi got a peek at the title: Ultrasound for Beginners. Second, she realized that she couldn’t make it back to the hospital in two weeks for the next checkup. A McKinsey View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
her initial enthusiasm was tempered when she arrived at the School. “I had only worked on projects in a state plan but I was being told about shareholder value, equity, and management,” she recalled. “It was... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Harvard Business School's mission to bring cutting-edge business practice to the classroom." According to Dwight B. Crane, senior associate dean, director of Faculty Development, a number of factors are exerting new pressures on the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
academic freedom—the opportunity to focus on big ideas without the distraction of grant writing—is also a competitive advantage in recruiting faculty. Consequently, our work is pathbreaking and has impact on both View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
and faculty to share best practices and interim learnings; use channels like Harvard Business Publishing and Working Knowledge to reach wide audiences. Other HBS Resources—Leverage opportunities such as MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
filling this void are HBS faculty. Their research and their voices — in articles, opinion pieces, and congressional testimony — press for better business practices and necessary reforms. Consider, for example, the important View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a rural development View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Creating a sustainable world
of the work fuels her. “I like to create, and I like to do things that are relatively unusual and sometimes difficult to deliver.” The reward is in the results, which have taken the form of support for Ouicar, a French car-sharing... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
research by three HBS professors suggests otherwise. The research project began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grows in powerful committee assignments, businesses back home benefit from the increased flow of... View Details