Shared Office - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

30 Jan 2017
News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

long demonstrated their dedication to educational advancement and the pursuit of knowledge, we share your concerns about the recently signed executive action regarding immigration. Offices across the... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

Patients are not actually the customers in the United States health care system, a fact largely to blame for the dearth of communication and data sharing between providers, according to experts at a recent Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

presentations, office hours with mentors, networking sessions, company tours, and workshops. In return, NeuroLaunch receives stock in the companies it assists. The culmination is a “demo day,” when its portfolio companies join other... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

11 Mar 2020
News

America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses

share life experiences, fears and failures, Ms. Richard said. Getting to know each other in a business-school group seemed easier than dating someone off campus, she said. Neither planned to date. Ms. Richard said something sparked when... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Ink

hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Developing Insightful Global Leaders

offices also strengthens the School’s relationships with local alumni and other leaders in business, government, and academia. HBS shares its pedagogy with learners around the world. HBX, the School’s... View Details

Portrait Project

Danielle Slutzky

what food to buy and more about with whom to share it. I want to be proud of my efforts to make healthy products mainstream. I will nourish my family, friends, and strangers. I will listen to the stories their food tells. And when they... View Details

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for the use of herbal remedies that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

will tend to depress the share of the U.S. in innovation. Q: Your book talks about the "pauperization of the patent system." Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? A: Beginning in the early 1990s, Congress converted the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Feb 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

alumni clubs were making significant progress in these areas and that it would be beneficial if they shared their experiences with other clubs. The following action items were agreed upon: solicit clubs for best practices, launch a... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

environment, however, was not familiar to the typical MBA. Based in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, Lu spent half of her time in an office on a street she shared with roving chickens and cows and the... View Details

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MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni

(cloud service or local storage device). OneDrive benefits include: Store, sync, and share your individual work files Update and share your files from anywhere Work on Office... View Details

27 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Association

alumni. We are excited to continue the Portrait Project to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This is our marquee event involving the entire HBS community. It is an opportunity for our members to share their stories on what it means to be... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2003
News

Studying Japan from the Inside

Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), executive director of Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Office in Tokyo, answers questions about business changes in Japan and the School’s research there. Q: Tell us about an interesting recent case in... View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Alumni WDYDWYD

Athena Ko

I threw myself into nonprofit work. My husband and home are nice. Oh, I ran eight miles and worked out every morning too. Life was alpha femina. Then I had two little girls, 18 months apart. They were sweet, soft, and vulnerable, and I love them so much that it hurts.... View Details

23 Sep 2020
News

HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to... View Details

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/SDI Productions) Despite reams of material written about remote work in recent months, we know very little about the impact of remote management on performance. Perhaps it’s too soon. Until we can assess longer-term performance under home... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2003
News

Gregg Petersmeyer

C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

28 Mar 2019
News

California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

community has failed,” she said. “If we want to solve climate change, we can. It's completely plausible to change. We have the technology to fix this problem. Electric and autonomous vehicles and ride sharing are coming fast. Agriculture... View Details