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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
sleeping under his desk at the AKDN’s offices. (Thanks to a lack of rentable space, post-Taliban landlords could demand a full year of highly inflated rent up front.) At the time, much of AKDN’s work was focused on nonprofit agencies and development, so the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
word to their families, friends, and customers. It's quite amazing when such a simple concept can have such a big impact." The reordering of mindsets and attitudes toward life can work both ways, interns find. Neera Nundy is a Canadian... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
with technology and new organizational structures, are creating health care delivery systems that offer high quality and low costs. Analyzing the successes and failures of a variety of health-care ventures, Herzlinger demonstrates, in particular, how the "focused... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), so the celebration commemorates not the conception but rather the execution. It's fitting: The organization matches local nonprofits with volunteer HBS alumni who help the groups build strategies to... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
to share knowledge and experience, and contribute to the development of Singapore’s startup ecosystem,” says HBSCS board member Prashant Pundrik (PLDA 9), who developed the War Room concept with fellow board members Cristina Ventura (GMP... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Small loans, big impact: “I’ve seen firsthand the impact that a $50 loan can have on a mother in Ecuador. It helps provide the circumstances for these women to become the backbone of society.” Aha moment: “I left my last corporate job when I was 39, and it just came to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
students "get it." Bistany decries four "myths" in education: The smaller the class size, the better (when what matters is the right structure for teaching and assessing a concept effectively); The profit motive will undermine educational... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
chairs the task force on professional schools. The group has three key responsibilities: to explore the potential of collaboration on educational programs among the University’s professional schools; to develop a concept for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
in the coffee business, serving people—it's in the people business, serving coffee. It's about the human experience of coffee, which as a concept is very transferable from one business to another." That focus on the customer experience... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
NIH for clinical testing. The company had moved from concept to clinical-trial-ready in a record-breaking 42 days. Moderna is just one of scores of research teams worldwide currently shepherding vaccine candidates through development and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
this was something I was meant to do.” People, People, People After brainstorming restaurant concepts over pizza in Harvard Square, Paul D. Conforti (MBA 1997) and some friends got the idea to open a dessert establishment. When he and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
original donation total. With a second event complete, the two business school graduates at the helm were able to do a deep-dive analysis of their concept and forecast its future. From what they saw, it was positioned to grow rapidly in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
1996, the concept of a privately funded stadium. “That vote cleared the way for some of the permits we would need and eliminated the possibility that someone would put forward a competing measure,” explains the politically savvy Baer, who... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
we’ll be reading about the startups by some of these young people who are lying flat,” he notes. Even so, tang ping continues to echo in the online forums where China’s youth congregate. The concept has parallels in other countries,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.” Counterintuitive View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
integrity and social sensitivity are implicit in the idea of professionalism. . . . Nor has the School ever doubted that the concept of professionalism includes the components of social responsibility and accountability." In the 1980s and... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
recommend, I also draw on international comparisons based on what we learned in BGIE. In overseeing our operations, I draw on TOM thinking. In work and beyond, concepts learned in Negotiations are very helpful. “My HBS experience was made... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
did. The assault went on for hours. Bradley took the list with him the next day on a flight to Los Angeles and found a way to frame what had just happened in a concept recalled from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey... View Details