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- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Peru, Rwanda, Liberia, and Burkina Faso, to help improve the learning environment. He hopes to scale Edify, from affecting nearly 400,000 children currently to 2 million children in the next decade. It’s an ambitious objective that draws... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Providing relief when disaster strikes
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
cheap. If a product doesn't affect the customer, we don't care about it." Meanwhile, Bluemercury is reaping the benefits of Malcolm's thrift and savvy, with projected revenues of $8 million for 2000 and five new stores slated to open in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
Richard H. K. Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor, is an expert on how nations compete—and he’s worried about the United States. Vietor focuses on government policies, laws, and other actions that affect competitiveness, defined as the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
developing world where there are fewer educational opportunities, those in the developed world who cannot afford the available options, and those affected by the upheaval in business and schooling caused by the pandemic. For instance, in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
issues that contribute to turnover. The company has also recently started applying relationship management to former applicants and current employees. Morris has long understood the ways shift changes, small, incremental wage increases, and lack of flexibility can... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
IDinsight fits is by saying, look, sometimes decision-makers need to make a relatively quick decision, and they cannot wait one, two, or three years to find out whether a particular program affects that longer-term outcome of interest,”... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
you ask to use a company’s main brand, because that affects all of its employees and business,” he says. “But the way we play with Lego is a mash-up. My son’s Batman minifigure interacts with a Star Wars minifigure, and we wanted that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
items and are affected by them. For their 1996 study, "The Paradoxes of Technology," HBS assistant professor Susan M. Fournier and David Glen Mick, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, interviewed 29 households about their... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
the ‘I-am-helping-you’ element is always somewhere in the transaction,” he says. “You, the recipient, are being given something and that affects the nature of the relationship. Now, with our approach, you are an important part of the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA Program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Finance and the Economic Recovery
Illustration by Michael Austin A pandemic that has caused public health and economic crises also has afforded business leaders the opportunity to better understand and lead through disruptions affecting countless lives, companies, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the globe. For instance, to determine... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
nationalistic pride and identity but also allows them to leverage monetary policy, one of the most significant tools that governments have to affect their economies. However, we’ve seen countries like Ecuador getting rid of their national... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
comprises some 14 percent of the nation's economy — continues to present persistent, complex, and often painful dilemmas that affect virtually every citizen. All of which makes Peter Slavin's credentials especially valuable. With... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
Capital requirements for banks, which govern the ratio of equity to debt, have come under greater scrutiny in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A central question is how these requirements affect banks’ overall cost of capital, or... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Illustration by Robert Neubecker Sports injuries are a business concern for Clara Wu Tsai (MBA 1993). She and her husband, Joe Tsai, are owners of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets; the WNBA’s New York Liberty; and the men’s lacrosse team, the San Diego Seals. Sidelined athletes... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy answer was new to her. And to see... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
balance are our priorities,” says Yang. Pro-worker and pro-environment policies aren’t just a social good at Esquel. “They save money and strengthen our competitive advantage,” notes Yang. For example, polluted water impedes the production of cotton, and poor air... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
business, women as professionals, and women’s personal lives. Included are materials as diverse as the diaries of whaling captains’ wives, wills that show how 18th-century property laws affected women, advertisements for “female... View Details