Transformative Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

simply the development of useful skills, takes time. You don’t form identity overnight. That’s why, even as the world moves to all these other approaches, we remain convinced that a two-year immersive experience is the only way to create a View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend

officer and an administrator in the office of the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen’s career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

products—and more likely to indulge in treats. Why? “You did something good for the environment,” Karmarkar says, “so you can have a cookie.” It was easy to believe Bill Gates in 2012 when he predicted that Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) 2006 startup, Khan Academy, would have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

fabric and psyche of our country.” Cunningham, who left the CMO role at Hess to come to McDonald’s, likewise couldn’t ignore the opportunity to have an impact at a massive scale. But it was personal, too: As a kid, Kempczinski had his... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way to make his vision a reality. Studying architecture was a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details

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