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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
account by two of Teddy Roosevelt’s sons, Kermit and Theodore Jr., of their experiences in western China and eastern Tibet. The onion-skin map of their journey tucked behind the last page caught Moore’s attention. He traced their path for... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
members, and other experts around a variety of issues related to the pandemic. Sadun’s findings are summarized in the report “Re-starting under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from around the World.” Additional research related to the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) is a retired colonel with the US Air Force and former NASA astronaut. He has piloted the Space Shuttle and logged more than 200 days aboard the International Space Station, where he conducted a wide range of scientific View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
the tarp out on the field when it rains, to greeting the fans as they enter the park. "Our parent club, the Cincinnati Reds, pays our players," Burke continues. "That leaves us free to concentrate on optimizing the ballpark View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
guy, and he shall be missed by the marketing world. Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) I was a student of Professor Salmon’s in 1962 and 1963, an experience that was transformational for me and for my family business. In those years, as part of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks of external problem solvers—to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
of business and society is changing not only how we work and live, but also how we tackle the toughest issues. Lakhani oversees the Crowd Innovation Lab, a Harvard University initiative focused on crowdsourcing. He conducts field View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
events, and student field studies, and through its ability to convene leading businesspeople, academics, and public policymakers and to connect students to alumni mentors. “The initiative is an attempt to focus on a problem that is... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
Tom (MBA 1969) and Patricia Barry It was a given in Tom Barry’s family that, having done well in math and science in high school, he would pursue a degree in a related field as a student at Yale. But during his junior year, the Ohio... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Second-year MBA student Anna Koscielecka (MBA 2016) spent two weeks in China during a January 2016 Immersive Field Course (IFC) that expanded her global perspective. “We fully immersed ourselves in Chinese business culture,” says... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
contribute to a better South Africa and world. Rather than ‘seeking new landscapes,’ I believed a profound change within my current field and gaining ‘new eyes’ on the world was what I needed most.” Magwegwe found his new way of seeing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
writes Bhidé. "Scholars avoid the field because it doesn't have a well-defined theory, but such a theory cannot spontaneously emerge without their efforts. I hope the frameworks and hypotheses suggested here will help break the deadlock... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
Nancy Karch admits that when she arrived at Soldiers Field she had "almost no understanding of business." While pursuing a doctorate in mathematics at Northeastern University, she "stumbled upon the idea of business school" when she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
to combine her interests and skills in both the public and private arenas. She hopes to get more hands-on field experience serving in the developing world before eventually returning to the United States to... View Details