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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
putting users at the center of strategy leads to an almost unfair competitive advantage; ways to build an organizational system that delivers a superior user experience that is replicable, consistent, and scalable; common shortfalls that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Moore considered doing the same. Hincks had asked him to come home—“job prospects are brighter” she had wired him in May—and he had finally settled on a plan to finish his MBA and pursue a doctorate at HBS. It would give him options, he said. “I can support you by... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Gould. “The issue being that if you don’t have women executives, you’re not going to have the right candidates to move to boards.” In 2012, the United Kingdom implemented a mandatory “comply or explain” system through the UK Corporate... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
meeting at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, to an education conference in Dubai, and to the University of Ghana, where he delivered a lecture on partnerships for success in Africa. The hectic pace and diverse agendas were not unusual for... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and uniforms, he would have a better life. And for 10 years, that’s what the family did. But after all that time and thousands of rupees they didn’t have, that family got failure. Failure from teachers like me who didn’t have the skills to help him learn and from a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
grateful student fans, Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
had founded “about an hour or two after Prohibition ended, so I’m told,” Cohen says with a smile. After graduating from Smith College in 1964, she spent a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education before enrolling at HBS, much to her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
paths to pedal. In 1893, the roads became a cause of concern for the federal government as the U.S. Post Office Department instituted a system of rural free delivery (RFD). Members of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry — an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
have to be willing and able to tear down in order to build up. The old and proven and venerable must sometimes give way to the new and innovative and transformational. But we should also note that capitalism is far from perfect. While it’s superior to any other View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
should run for office, but what we must do is reform the system so that virtually every elected official can have the freedom I have. That way we can all do a better job. Describe your philanthropic activities. Giving away money has never... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
collaboration, noting that there is a "proven demand for women in business." A year later, Bulletin readers learned that HBS would "provide most of the faculty and instructional material and will be responsible for the [Radcliffe] Program's View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
for the challenge of educating and acquiring customers new to making large online purchases. But what the company didn’t expect was the absence of the infrastructure necessary to support e-commerce. Very quickly, Cahuzac realized that the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
immediate goal was to encourage MBA students to leverage their education to confront the most pressing challenges facing society. This spring, we helped teach our case study, West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward, in Professor... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
handwritten checks. They had burned it all down. And now they needed someone to help them rebuild it. In hindsight, Rothrock says, the answer to Sony’s break-in was to isolate and treat the affected area, not tear it all down. But he gets it—executives and managers... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
been recorded in numerous cases, research, books, and articles that have educated and influenced generations of students and practitioners around the globe. From the classroom to the boardroom, HBS and its alumni have been an essential... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Corporation as project leader of an effort to create a stand-alone word-processing system. Following a brief stint at FasFax Corporation, he arrived at HBS in pursuit of an education that might help him keep ahead of succeeding... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs