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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
for the region. HBS's focus on problem solving, its links to real practice, and its broad experience in training managers will also be our "value-added." What effect is the recent financial crisis having on your work and on the work of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
strategies. "Few Asian countries have done this," Porter commented, citing chronic problems such as inadequate infrastructure, skilled human resource shortages, deficiencies in science and technology, and lingering monopolies that have... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
1962, described changes in the first-year curriculum aimed at instilling in students "the instinctive acceptance of responsi-bility . . . for the problems of the community in which the student operates." He asserted, "We must help make... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
productive after they moved. I thought that was interesting given the aging workforce problem we have. It could help people extend their careers by even five years by letting them choose where they want to go to retire. I’ve also View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
problem,” says Amadio. “Although capital is important, fewer than half of the entrepreneurs said that the major barrier was money. The majority of the problems they were facing involved other types of access: to mentorship with deep... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
role. “I probably wasn’t ready to quit cold turkey,” she says. “But to be honest, I’m not a good part-time person. I only operate at one speed. If I take on a task, I throw myself into it with a vengeance.” Before long, she recalls, her... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
experiences, and the meaning of leadership. Click on each heading below to read their responses. What career advice do you have for today's female MBAs? As a trailblazer, how did you proceed when there was no established route to your goals? What do you wish someone... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II, a divided Germany became the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Suchismita had resolved that she was going to open a bank account. "That morning," Nundy recalls, "Suchismita spent hours in preparation, bathing and dressing up as if for a wedding. As we drove to the bank, she told me it was the first time she'd ever been in a car.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
turning our considerable energies more and more to giving back. Typically, much effort is original and entrepreneurial: starting film schools for inner-city youth or tackling the problem of what to do with... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
inspired to address inconsistencies in society by working from within the system rather than pursuing more radical approaches. Joseph Schell: As we turn fifty, many of us finally have time to reflect on our life's ambitions. It's a great time to get View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
questions about whether a new venture will be profitable, if changes in business strategy will generate an increase in profits, or if “staying the course” will result in continued profitability. Unlike books offering one-size-fits-all advice, this book View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
anticipation of international students' needs as they enter HBS. The School offers a comprehensive array of services for internationals, from help with class participation and exam preparation skills, to support and advisory services related to adjustment View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
forces: The Fear of Missing Out and the Fear of a Better Option—or FOMO and FOBO, for short. And then he graduated and started his career, and mostly forgot about it. Until about ten years later, when FOMO had reached a cultural... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details