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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
wife or his sister-in-law or his daughter. If they needed money, he gave them cash from the cigar box that he used as a cash register. Every night, he emptied the cigar box and put the leftover cash under his mattress or in a safe in his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
that was in scarce supply, as Khoja and his team worked under the six-month deadline. “We’d have a huddle session every day at 7 a.m. and say, okay, what do we need to do to get to launch?” he recalls. “It didn’t matter who did what—we’d... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Midwest, commented, “Lincoln workers receive high pay and job security, and there is no need for a union there. But I’m not worried that there will be a diminishing role for unions, because most of you are too dumb to run your companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Ford’s Premier group (including brands such as Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Land Rover). With this wealth of international experience, when asked to identify essential “global management” qualities and skills, Fields replies, “Strong global leaders View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
recession, when high unemployment rates lessened the demand for traveling nurses to answer the short-term staffing needs of hospitals around the country. “I call that part ‘hanging off the cliff,’” Moreno notes. With the implementation of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
India. “Hence ‘Alumni in Action’.... powerful stories of resilience, purpose and giving back. Stories that restore one's faith in Humanity and inspire us to dream of a better tomorrow." MAY 25 Vinay Pasricha (OPM 39, 2010) cofounded an... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
Leng Lim (left) and Arjan Overwater Leng Lim (MBA 2001)—a partner at Mindkind Institute, Episcopal priest, and practitioner of Vipassana meditation—considers himself an oddity among HBS alumni. So when he met Arjan Overwater (AMP 164, 2003)—a former senior VP for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
rise. It’s one of the greatest threats that human health is facing today,” says Miriam Huntley, a DZD cofounder who focuses on computational approaches to genomic analysis. “Patients with severe infections can die within hours, but... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
and strict quarantine measures, drawing on the city-state’s previous experience with pandemics, including SARS, H1N1, MERS, and Zika. Then in March 2020, Singapore deployed the world’s first Bluetooth-based contact-tracing system, TraceTogether, a new digital tool to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
most in need of improvement. Given the fallibility of human beings, creating a work environment in which it is possible to learn from one another's mistakes should be a key priority for managers in any... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration, law, and the cost of labor and taxes) are comparatively much... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
talent pool, whether by upskilling their workers or collaborating with schools to embed the learning about the skills needed in their curricula and in work-based opportunities like co-op programs or paid internships. So that gap has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
timing of the game’s launch — 1998 — had a lot to do with its popularity. At that time, he observes, “Internet alienation had begun to kick in. People were saying, ‘Hey, what happened to good, old-fashioned, sitting down, face-to-face, View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Groysberg. “At Williamsport, Toby worked to understand the organization and get the employees involved, so when it was time for buy-in and action, they were ready to go. She’s a high-potential leader.” And an open-minded one as well: “I learned that I View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
data, Kimble says: “We need to justify the higher prices of our drugs, and we need to do a better job of helping hospitals understand that by using a more extensive antibiotic up front compared to the older... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to Spain, women, and dissenters. Who will enjoy this book? Just about everyone, but especially curious laypeople without any background in this field, students trying to get a handle on a difficult history course, business executives who View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance