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- 01 Jun 2016
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This pioneering effort is now a multibillion-dollar industry. —Donn Walklet (MBA 1976) via alumni.hbs.edu Community from Cuisine Re: Doug Duda (MBA 1985) Food is love, and love drives consumer behavior. As the developed world becomes... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
and we have impact in thousands of communities with millions of children around the world who are largely vulnerable and left out of key health and education systems. “We do what I would call the ‘building blocks of life’: clean water,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
private schools. It has grown to 1,022 students, drawn not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. She also owns three other schools, licenses out another one, and has opened a center in a poor community that ensures... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Changing the Culture
To address Dean Nitin Nohria’s concern that HBS can be a difficult place for some groups to thrive, the School has launched a new Culture and Community Initiative to ensure that all members of the community... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Kenny Appointed Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Kenny, who has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and communications at universities and firms such as Monitor, Genuity, and Arthur D. Little, has been named chief marketing and View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Black students from lower-income families in struggling neighborhoods—hope for a successful future. Wilfong’s fundraising, through events like a children arts auction and a community walkathon, allowed the nonprofit to make the same... View Details
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Willa Zhou
the first of her two pre-HBS years, Willa worked on The Movement, a free, outdoor-exercise and community health program in San Francisco, which was based on her undergraduate research on health and well-being. "I had interviewed over... View Details
- June 1988 (Revised December 1991)
- Case
IBM Computer Conferencing
Applegate, Lynda M. "IBM Computer Conferencing." Harvard Business School Case 188-039, June 1988. (Revised December 1991.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Find your passion through purposeful action
Roseann Hassey (MBA 1987) talks about providing service to communities in need in New Orleans, Mexico, South Africa, and Haiti. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus, he quickly found community and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using technology to create a platform for discussion
Having grown up outside Silicon Valley, Linda Leung (MBA 2014) is comfortable with integrating technology and business. It’s no wonder, then, that when she served as online communications manager for the HBS Women Students Association,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details
- December 2019
- Article
It Helps to Ask: The Cumulative Benefits of Asking Follow-up Questions
By: Michael Yeomans, Alison Wood Brooks, Karen Huang, Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
In a recent article published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP; Huang, Yeomans, Brooks, Minson, & Gino, 2017), we reported the results of 2 experiments involving “getting acquainted” conversations among strangers and an observational field... View Details
Yeomans, Michael, Alison Wood Brooks, Karen Huang, Julia A. Minson, and Francesca Gino. "It Helps to Ask: The Cumulative Benefits of Asking Follow-up Questions." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 117, no. 6 (December 2019): 1139–1144.
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
Many people associate the name &Beyond with luxury adventure travel. CEO Joss Kent (MBA 1997) thinks of it, first, as a conservation company. Tourism pays for the company’s habitat management, community development, and other conservation... View Details
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
that a priority. The more students the nonprofit could reach, and the more donors it could educate, the better the student experiences and the stronger the leadership pipeline for the future. Goldman quickly identified communications as a... View Details
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- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
Patricia Will (MBA 1980) is cofounder and president of Belmont Village Senior Living, which operates 25 retirement communities in the southwestern and midwestern United States. In this video, she talks about how she came to found a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
Astrong, vibrant, and active alumni community is crucial to the School's ongoing success and relevance. One of the goals of The Harvard Business School Campaign was to broaden and deepen the ways in which alumni engage with each other and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Creating more effective content across all media
Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details