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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
1930s data on 2,667 reels of microfilm. Representatives from the company were waiting to ferry a full set of reels back to Salt Lake City, where each page would be scanned. Ancestry.com promised users that the first pages would be on the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
and their friends and families, uses tablets and educational games to teach math, English, and local languages at schools. The organization also sets up micro schools—one-room digital schoolhouses in communities that lack the requisite... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
Payne’s downtown office, Rodakis laid out the rationale for a nonprofit. He also shared the concern that he might not have the right skill set to run it and wondered whether he should try to hire someone. “You’re the perfect person for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
eye-opening glimpse under the hood of an industry I love. Coupled with my time on movie sets and in production offices, I saw the industry’s huge potential for innovation. During business school, I also noted that some entertainment had a... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
book are, for instance, sharing your goals for a conversation and then finding out what the conversation partner goals are. Can you tell me how that would play out in a conversation? CD: Sure. I mean,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man offers food to the people in his community in need of a meal. He’s a community leader in the Robin Hood Army, a no-funds volunteer organization with a massive goal... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
challenge that experienced mountaineers say is greater even than Mount Everest. “It was the biggest, most vast, most intimidating mountain I had ever beheld in my life,” Kostova says, recalling the first time she set eyes on Denali. “I... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
conducted an AI exercise called “Storrowed” with students, using GenAI tools, to understand why some trucks ignore the height warnings of overpasses on Boston’s Storrow Drive and regularly get stuck, causing traffic backups. The goal was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
rulemaking authority to change when trash could be set out for collection. For decades, New Yorkers have been permitted to put their garbage out at 4 p.m., which is earlier than in any other major American city. But sanitation workers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
rapidly. In addition to its core program formats, HBS Online has developed Pathways to Business, a free program that introduces young college students from underrepresented communities to a dynamic set of leadership and management stories... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
swiping for you. And their goal is just fine tune the top of funnel. Because it's so much work to correspond with people in the beginning stage, a lot of people drop off, and they just want to convert the initial interest into View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
poverty.) Globally, some 650 million people live in extreme poverty, and Laidler-Kylander and Trickle Up have set the goal of reaching 5 million people by 2030. “When we are able to leverage the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
give us this depth of emotion sometimes out of the silliest little behaviors, which is why I like them so much. Duhigg: How do people build rituals into their daily lives? Norton: Many of us are doing these things already, in various contexts. One View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)
why you believe something. Essentially, you lead someone else through a dialectical process, very much like what happens in the HBS classroom. I didn’t set out to be public. I’m grateful [Wall Street Journal reporter] Jeff [Horwitz] told... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
program chair of the RC. “The goal of RC Renewal is to bring us back towards the sweet spot between the two.” A similar effort has also been extended to the second-year Elective Curriculum (EC) and is being led by its new chair, Suraj... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
life in a manner that says that nothing gets done unless I’m on top of it and pinning it down. And so this process and this transformation, for me, has allowed me to stay very present. I still set really, really high View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
by increasing property taxes by 23.5 percent, but is roundly rejected by 69 percent of the voters. So should the partnership return to its usual work of facilitating downtown revitalization projects and pitching Columbus as an attractive site for companies to View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Former Dean Kim Clark established the Global Initiative in 1996 to encourage deeper understanding of and engagement with innovative management practices around the world. Nearly three decades later, more than half of HBS cases published are View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Manhattan. "I am very proud of what she has accomplished," he says. "After working when I was in business school and then raising the kids, she pursued a goal that most people would have thought unattainable. She loves practicing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg