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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
Again, this is a symptom that indicates a need for top management to get more involved in facilitating the daily progress of their creative teams. Does your research shed light on how the composition of teams affects their creative... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Bob Ryan first got involved, the business had been neglected. Estes Funeral Chapel, located at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in North Minneapolis, is easily accessible by light rail. "Rather than looking at this building as... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
leaders engaging on the idea of a national-level response to climate change for years, but remarked that interest has notably increased among its members. “We’re now seeing [interest from] folks from the insurance sector, from banks, from View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
their organizations and push for gender parity in light of these changes.” For guidance in planning the event, the club reached out to HBS professors Robin Ely, who is an expert on gender issues and Joseph Fuller, an expert on the future... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
beyond disciplinary information silos and to be more self-aware as leaders. But how? Dean Jay Light established faculty committees to evaluate a variety of proposals, including submissions from fifty HBS colleagues. Work on curriculum... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) gave the green... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
of risk. It emphasizes practical strategies for understanding and managing these hazards of new ventures in light of recent research. Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
significant is this problem for companies and for individuals? The Y2K problem is like a granite block dropped into a quiet pool. It's producing tremendous ripples, tremendous change. And like many major events, it's bringing to light... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
Interest.” Declaring that nothing could be more important in the 21st century than the forum’s theme, Dean Jay Light recalled in his opening remarks that the School’s founders conceived of HBS as “a school of public service and business”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
complex scents, both of which contrast with the Asian preference for light scents.” For an industry which looks global, it has some decidedly local characteristics . World War I helped launch the beauty revolution. In close quarters, soap... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
growth and sustainable development while respecting people, communities, and the planet,” says Yang. She is especially proud of an eco-industrial complex that Esquel is building in Guilin, China. The green complex will preserve the natural environment, leverage natural... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Buchanan (MBA 2000) has witnessed the truth observed by Andrew Carnegie and Warren Buffett alike that it can be more difficult to give wealth away wisely than to accumulate it in the first place. Buchanan’s new book sheds light on... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
down his pursuit of a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as ALS). As founder and former CEO of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with the help of his HBS classmates and professors, Kremer has shone a light... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
buying material for a sewing business, for example, or lights for a spice vendor’s shop. The repayment rate is 99.4 percent. It’s incredible and inspiring to see what the people in this program are achieving. We need to do more of this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
enterprise and philanthropy. This year’s recipients exemplify the award’s ideals and purpose to a remarkable degree. In light of the breadth and depth of their impressive careers, it is sometimes easy to overlook the fact that Alumni... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
people web development for fun, and getting them amazing jobs and careers. I was blown away. That’s when the light bulb went off. Since then, we’ve done fairly well. We’ve trained over 500 graduates and maintain a 99 percent job placement... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
doctors, and we brought in insurance specialists to help people make insurance and FEMA claims. When you reopened the Long Beach plant on September 9, did everyone get right back to work? The first thing we did when the lights went on... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
access capital. “We wrote this case because it not only tells a particular story of two student leaders effecting change,” says Bussgang, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and managing partner at the VC firm, Flybridge. “But it also speaks to larger systemic issues and points a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details