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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
and 47 minutes—29 minutes faster than any woman before her. The record she hasn’t broken—yet: The original objective was to break the speed record from the park entrance to the Aconcagua summit as part of an all-woman team. “I’m going to return to Aconcagua with my... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
historian’s eye to topics like farmers’ markets. One of Duda’s current projects is the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in 1917, the school taught sewing and other homemaking skills to girls and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
benchmarking to an art museum, a local YMCA, and a philanthropic organization. Alumni volunteer for CAP projects out of their desire to go beyond a simple donation to a good cause. “They want to be involved in the community,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
educational videos. The line between business- oriented entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs is blurry and easily crossed. In fact, as I have seen in my research as part of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, service is one way to... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
that restored Mellon Hall. The project gained momentum in the late spring with the precisely orchestrated migration of library materials and over two hundred people from the building. As of July 2, Baker Library was empty, and the... View Details
- Profile
Maxeme Tuchman
a nonprofit, public-affairs leadership program, led to a job serving the first deputy mayor, Patti Harris, in the New York City Mayor's Office, affectionately known as "The Bull pen." Among the special projects Max tackled were... View Details
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Mallika Ahluwalia
school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected orphans. "I got closely... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
innovation rather than responding to it. She recalled HUD’s 2014 National Disaster Resilience Competition, which awarded a total of $1 billion in funds to tackle climate change. Rather than simply soliciting “here’s-how-we’ll-use-the-money” View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
money is spent, or its effectiveness. The U.S. Competitiveness Project and its partners surveyed business leaders and school superintendents to gain a clearer understanding of the two groups' interactions. The picture that emerges is a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
Global Credit Project to analyze the impact of corporate debt in more than 100 advanced and emerging economies in the credit booms that typically precede financial crises. The data overlaps with 87 systemic financial crises, including:... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
Program that projects will be mission-critical and relatively discreet so that within a year you can make a meaningful difference,” Zeaske said. “They need to have a job for our grads that is going to move the needle.” He added, “Access... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
climate change and create a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future. With support from the Business & Environment Initiative (BEI), these four Harvard Business School (HBS) 2023 MBA students are leading innovative View Details
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
exam, but instead a final project in which you will either deliver a comprehensive pitch or share how The Founder Mindset will help you achieve a greater impact. Required Materials You should come to class having already completed the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
of Boston established its Housing Innovation Lab in 2015, and recent projects focus on plugin home options, intergenerational homesharing, and more. The Brookings Institute recently published research examining the “housing as a hub”... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
program at CSU. To prepare them early for today's global career environment, the school begins teaching students Mandarin in kindergarten. Earls led another project that brought high school juniors and seniors interested in STEM subjects... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
the course as students and Tōhoku-based project partners. Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the Immersive Field Course in Japan since the pandemic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite... View Details