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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
alumni would look back and say, ‘This education enabled me to lead a fulfilling life that I couldn’t have led otherwise.’ That’s the big ambition here,” says HBS’s Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
period projected at five years or less. Any Harvard unit or department may apply for the interest-free loans, which are repaid out of the savings generated by reductions in energy consumption, utility usage, and waste removal. HBS was one... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
images of shoes. For example, our blog post, ‘8 Signs You Have a Foot Fetish’ is our #3 visited page on our site!” What did you like to do when you weren’t studying? Smith: “Besides building a shoe-odor empire, I was big into intramurals!... View Details
- 25 Jul 2023
- News
Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott
only the eighth chief executive in Wesfarmers’ 100-plus year history, told the Review. “There are plenty of examples of leaders who have had really big egos. They might be seen to be really successful, but then when they walk out the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
- 28 Dec 2015
- News
Best business books of 2015 for IT leaders
- 01 Aug 2012
- News
What's Phelps' Medal Worth?
- 02 Dec 2008
- News
In Defense Of American Cars
- 15 Jul 2012
- News
Productivity Trick: Hide!
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
Is it the ability to navigate in the choppy waters of change? Do leaders see the hidden opportunity in every setback? Is there really any such thing as a "born leader"? Five HBS faculty and some prominent alumni offer their perspectives... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
business opportunity. In just 30 years—the span of a single generation—genealogy has grown from the domain of historical societies, microfilm, and the Mormon church to big data, artificial intelligence, DNA testing, and staggering private... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
inches, which I mean, the ball itself is only five inches- DM: ... Right. Right. CM: ... you know, in diameter. You're talking about a pretty big error rate there when you're talking about plus or minus two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
to other emerging areas of research, like the microbiome or the immune system. Part of the issue, he realized, was that the field was dominated by just a few big funders who focused most of their resources on genetic research. Rodakis’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
Here at the Pickleball Club, founder and CEO Brian McCarthy (MBA 1972) is making a big bet that his model—a private club, with high-end amenities and a community organized around the sport—will have what it takes to stay in the game for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
big believer in focusing on the job that you do, and I’ve always wanted to be the best at whatever that was,” says Christou, who did well enough that he was soon promoted to assistant general manager. It was the first step on the way to a... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)
I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school experience. Coaching debate... View Details