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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
1997), whose company, OCOchem, is finding new ways to reuse captured carbon. “We have got to start finding ways to actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere if we’re going to win this race.” “We have got to View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
homework via phone. Before long, Khan was tutoring 10 or 15 cousins after work. He started writing simple software to give them practice problems and making how-to videos so he could reach more kids... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
others—all say the participants inspire them. That inspiration ranges from sharing the passion of people dedicated to improving their communities to learning real-world problems that help with their research and case writing. Each summer... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
experiences, but we're all in the LGBTQ+ community. Given that uniting factor, we're starting off with very large point in common, aside from being HBS alumni," says Yang, a member of the first East Coast LGBTQ+ Forum. "We probably do end... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
the school paper, the Daily Texan - I just loved the reporting. It became clear to me that this was what I wanted to do." She got her professional start in 1977 at her hometown paper, the now defunct San Antonio Light. After six months of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
build. The third option is a hybrid approach, where Mobley fine-tunes the brand and product and at the same time starts that B2B2C channel in an effort to leverage both. Which route should they pursue: D2C, B2B2C, or both? The Answers: I... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
nominating and governance committee, everyone on the board is on board, so to speak, with the concept. It is amazing that when the existing board starts to interview the female candidates—correctly screened and selected female candidates,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Before he became a federal judge, the controversial Robert Bork once labeled antitrust "a policy at war with itself." In this case, he was right. Antitrust laws are problematic. That is not, however, to say that they are without value. The View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock price View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
classes, and rank among the best-selling cases of all time. To try to understand why these cases are so successful, we spoke with the professors who originally wrote them (including James Heskett, at left), and with those who still teach them. In so doing, we sprang a... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
During COVID-19 and Beyond. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have had an impact on 94 percent of the world’s student population; for low and lower-middle income countries, the impact has been up to 99 percent. As a result, View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
funding, but most of that will come from outside the country. Essentially, there is no capital available to small or medium-sized companies here." Beyond financing, additional regional problems cited by Ghemawat and others include, to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones were a great View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
company started out in 1984 making teapot polish in western China, and through a succession of acquisitions, it is now the 234th-largest company in the world. ChemChina recently spent $43 billion to acquire the Swiss seed giant Syngenta,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
attractive. Match.com, which got its start in 1995 when only 14 percent of American adults used the Internet, began to move online dating into the mainstream. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a boom in dating sites, such as eHarmony,... View Details
Keywords: April White