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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to the grave and continuing View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and Comfort strives to improve the health, self-esteem, and hygiene education of those it serves. “There are about 250,000 children in Massachusetts that are hygiene insecure. They wake up each day being worried about how they look,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets. Rather, the objective is to save... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and spent two years working as a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and uniforms, he would have a better life. And for 10 years, that’s what the family did. But after all that time and thousands of rupees they didn’t have, that family got failure. Failure from teachers like me who didn’t have the skills to help him learn and from a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
"dot nothings"; that legacy systems can be built upon; that the United States is the Internet leader; that PCs provide the only access to the Internet; and that English is the language of the Internet. Nolan urges senior managers to look... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
should run for office, but what we must do is reform the system so that virtually every elected official can have the freedom I have. That way we can all do a better job. Describe your philanthropic activities. Giving away money has never... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
results of the forum - and a call for action - will be disseminated nationally. On the evening of April 7, Kanter moderated a public "town meeting" panel discussion on the "The Role of Business in Public Education and Welfare Reform." The... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
Harvard Medical School. He has shown that detailed checklists can improve surgical patient outcomes. Gawande told the audience that traditional practices with individual doctors can’t meet the complex challenges of modern medicine. “Organizations and View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
possible since 1995 through a special arrangement with America Online (AOL), the key elements in the new system include immediate access to regularly updated information and the assignment of a lifetime e-mail "pointer" and security... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
appeared in 1925, Harvard Business School has sent forth tens of thousands of MBA and Executive Education graduates into the world. As managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, the School's alumni body collectively has had an impact on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third, physician View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
risky venture told Watson, "I guess you want my resignation," Watson replied, "You can't be serious. We just spent $10 million educating you." David Garvin, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, uses this... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
diving in. If we can educate them about it and make it a known and also be able to show them that these challenges that people typically face, we have real solutions to it. We have ways in which you’re going to be able to tackle this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
because there is absolutely no other thing that compares. And believe me, I’ve tried it all. How to: Break a World Record Our instructor: Ming Chen (MBA 1998), Chief Culture Officer, Education First (EF) When I was in school in New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Moore considered doing the same. Hincks had asked him to come home—“job prospects are brighter” she had wired him in May—and he had finally settled on a plan to finish his MBA and pursue a doctorate at HBS. It would give him options, he said. “I can support you by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
you're actually hitting the mark. The greatest learning arises when you find that you're not achieving the results you hoped for. It's an opportunity to refine your hypotheses about what works and what doesn't." Even as the MCC moves forward in evaluating the impact of... View Details