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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
father [Robert K. Merton, a National Medal of Science winner whose work in theoretical sociology at Columbia University has spanned fifty years] has been a strong influence in your life and your career. What did he say when you told him?... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
be the best place to learn how to organize and think clearly, and thus be able to generate change,” he explains. After graduating, Ahlhauser worked in finance, auditing, and consulting roles for several national firms before hanging out... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
remarks to a plenary session, Dean Clark highlighted a number of ways in which the School is growing and changing to meet new challenges both at home and abroad. Among them, he cited initiatives dealing with corporate governance, life sciences and View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
of company data and gender representations in the business press shows that the firm's approach to recruiting and retaining women more or less coincided with reported shifts in national attitudes toward women and work. "As an... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
happens more locally.” The conviction in Cognetti’s voice makes it clear that she doesn’t harbor Washington ambitions, although her ideas can be big and national in scope, like changing how public schools are funded: “School districts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
Massachusetts. CORe is expected to broaden its application pool to other national and international students in subsequent waves. But how to recreate that adrenaline-fueled, edge-of-the-seat energy that is a hallmark of HBS classrooms... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
am asking whites to make deposits up to $250,000 in Black-owned banks. At that level, it is completely insured by the federal government, so there's no risk. The reason is because Black-owned banks send money to the Black community. What... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
the foot if they don’t figure out how to incorporate that talent and experience into leadership. Why? Diverse teams produce better results. A study conducted by the National Center for Women & Information Technology looked at the number... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost, time-tested efforts to improve child... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
registered users. Revenues last year exceeded $7 billion. eBay’s remarkable impact on society and com-merce is hard to ignore. Whitman, who stepped down from the helm in March, now serves as national cochair of John McCain’s presidential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation, as he put it, were sound? Upon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
remarks underscoring the importance of community during times of national tragedy. "These types of circumstances, as horrific as they may be, serve to remind us of how blessed we are to be members of this wonderful HBS community," Cash... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
national and international telecommunications structure. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart creates a dystopian future for the United States as a setting for an unrequited love. I enjoyed his debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Kraus, “that doesn’t look like her path.” Kraus has witnessed this dynamic as an entrepreneur. When she cofounded and served as CEO of Circles, a national corporate concierge, in 1997, there were even fewer women on the entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
partnerships, but the coordination was a real challenge—particularly when there was classified information involved.” It’s a broad point, but apply it to cybersecurity, says Lefkowitz, and you see why the National Security Agency might... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
anticorruption benchmarks as determined by third-party data from organizations such as the International Finance Corporation, the World Health Organization, and the Heritage Foundation, among others. "It's become a valuable Good... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details