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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
When most MBA students attend HBS, there is a general feeling that the contract they sign is to spend 18 months getting world-class exposure to cases and principles of business and management and then leave with a license to practice business, including the tools and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
slowly. In 1978, he wrote Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class. He trademarked his company’s name, Bikram’s Yoga College of India, and in 1994 began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers each year. Bikram also followed the very... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
development. Berglund, now 50, is finishing his pediatrics internship and plans further training in psychiatry, which will require another three years. "The first thing you confront is the question 'Can you do it?' At 45, you wonder if... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Drycleaners (established over 60 years ago), East Africa's largest chain of dry-cleaning franchises. White Rose was one of the first companies in East Africa to offer equity to its staff, assist company retirees who were establishing their own businesses, and provide... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
HBS management training without a trip to Boston to get it. The Charlotte club is the second to offer a management course. The HBS Club of Buffalo pioneered the idea in 1951 when it developed a case-based management course for local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
hard to understand until you’ve been both. As a patient, having empathy for your primary caregivers is important. They are volunteering out of the goodness of their hearts and they often take on a lot—more than expected or what they were formally View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
One problem was that Rakuten offered little initial training or support to workers, who were expected to pay for their own English classes and learn the language during off-hours. Neeley, who drafted some best practices that the company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
platform and training moms to be advocates in public arenas. We still have so far to go with this issue. It’s something that we want to work on proactively, not reactively. I can’t stop. As an introvert, I never expected to do something... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, and the customers are deeply... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
stereotyping, what is the best way to address that challenge? Raising awareness through training is an obvious starting point. We’ve known for a while that there is something wrong when so many highly educated women are lagging in pay and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by distributing high-quality nutritious food and providing View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
the minority in how they viewed this choice. “The course does a good job of highlighting the conflicts that are inherent in this business, such as the tension between investment professionals and their investors,” El-Hage says. “It trains... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
human beings, but we have adapted to the Internet world." Growing slowly and deliberately has served Southwest well, the study concludes. And taking the extra time to re-cruit and train staff, to use technology carefully, to control costs... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
highly-diversified food service company into what became a highly-focused Dunkin Donuts. I will always be grateful to Professor Salmon for his training and wisdom in those HBS years and in the time and counsel he provided me in subsequent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
in the open field beside Harvard Stadium, across North Harvard Street from HBS, near the Newell Boathouse, where I was training for the Harvard crew. We could also see these buildings when we went to football games in the stadium. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial support from the Life Sciences Fellowship Fund will be awarded to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Those ideas include Ely’s research showing that good intentions and occasional, off-the-shelf training are not sufficient... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
Earthwatch Institute opened a whole new world to Rothberg, and she was hooked. “I became intrigued, and so did my husband,” says Rothberg. “So in the beginning, we just went on digs with Earthwatch, and the archaeologists trained us.”... View Details