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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Tu Veux Sprechen Conmigo Online?
“It’s cool to say you speak six languages,” Karen Ong (MBA ’08) told the Boston Globe (March 12, 2008). “But the process of learning a language is boring.” So Ong decided to do something about it. She created MyHappyPlanet.com, an online... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
are restructuring the economy and changing the nature of competitive advantage.” “The computer scientists and engineers developing AI don’t necessarily speak the language of business,” Lakhani adds. “HBS is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 May 2021
- News
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Awarded Honorary Degree by Harvard
of languages and have been viewed more than 1.8 billion times,” as noted in the Gazette announcement. In addition to Khan Academy, the announcement notes that Khan is the author of “The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined” and the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model. The everyday presence of beauty... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe
To introduce the language of business to those just starting careers or preparing for an MBA, HBS debuted in June 2014 its Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, an online business primer for college undergraduates, recent graduates, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
learn the seven biggest traps in life and work that catch people unaware; identify the traps that are holding them back; discover their escape routes and climb out of the quicksand; and avoid traps altogether. The Mystical Naturalist: How the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Assistant Professor Monica C. Higgins and Professor Nitin Nohria explores how language enables perfect strangers to initiate a process that may lead to business collaboration. In their 1996 working paper, "How View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Aug 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Dallas Arts Community
of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. “The decision was you can continue to have an impact on a huge beast, or you can come back to Dallas and have a bigger role on a smaller team,” she told D Magazine recently. Now Scripps has taken... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
the conversations were not about business. They were about what the Detroit Lions did that week or what was happening with a kid in my class. Coming into the corporate environment felt like a foreign View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
are sold in local markets. We learned that the women in the tribe do the bulk of the work — building their thatched roof mud huts, gathering all food and water, preparing all meals, and taking care of the children. In a sometimes emotional View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
type of artificial intelligence program trained on gigantic amounts of data that can perform natural language processing tasks such as summarizing content and answering questions. A pilot program was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
farming and food company. It's focused on providing the world's best natural dairy and meat products. I was excited to work for PAMU because PAMU is looking to change how New Zealand farms. It's looking to change the sort of food that New... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile
key if you’re looking for a real partner under any circumstances. The idea is to connect you with the people that you might have met naturally years in the future right now.” To begin their journey of vulnerability, Hinge hopefuls must... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
companies. And indeed, this SDR theory-turned-to-code has shown the ability to aid in natural language processing, with one of Numenta’s partners, Cortical.io, using it to help machines read lengthy, complex... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
Fracturing, and Our Future (Crown Publishers, 2005), Enriquez looks at the very nature of countries: how they appear and disappear, how they grow and fade. With commentary about culture, politics, and economics around the world — and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
Organized in conjunction with the Centennial, the event drew nearly ninety faculty and practitioners from around the world. A conversation with Khurana follows. What was your goal in organizing this event? We wanted to lay a foundation,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna