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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) is helping companies and governments apply the most important innovations in water. "Providing solutions to tackle water scarcity is one of the greatest business opportunities of our time," says Shenkar, founder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares HBS professor Robert Simons of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
media, and we're trying to get youth more involved through the Internet. What can women aspiring to be the first U.S. president learn from the Council's members? They can learn, first, that it's doable; second, that it's going to be hard;... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
inequality. We are hoping to engage more and more companies and alumni in bringing the power of the market system to the inner city." Partnering for Success A small number of key business leaders can make a big difference by leveraging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
used to be that you looked at the fraction of foreign students to get a sense of how global the class is. Today, students may say “I have an American passport,” but they’ve worked in four or five different firms and countries. Dean Nohria on technological relevancy NN:... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Founding Partner, U.S. Venture Partners Earlier Education: B.A., Economics, Stanford University, 1950 On Leadership: “Don’t run out of money.” Bill Bowes has had three careers — each leading to the next. Twenty-five years of investment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
27. The winner of the business venture track, OsComp Systems, is commercializing an innovative technology that forces natural gas through pipelines at lower cost and with greater efficiency. The social venture track winner, Urban Water... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
well the challenges that lay ahead. DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read how the president and CEO of Trusted Media Brands is spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
to capital for small businesses froze. For years after, the outlook was bleak. In Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, Mills—the former U.S. Small Business Administrator and Senior Fellow at HBS— focuses on the needs of small... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
opportunity to invest in preventative care, earlier diagnosis, and a support system closer to the onset of illness.” The data also reveals that, despite such apparent needs, mental health philanthropy is rarely prioritized; most large... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Associate Professor David Thomas: workforce diversity and community involvement as elements of organizational innovation and competitive advantage. (photograph by Brooks Kraft) HBS Associate Professor David Thomas: workforce diversity and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous cycle where once you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject that most people would prefer to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
compliance as an investment, not an expense, legally astute managers are more likely to discover innovative paths to change their products in ways that not only ensure compliance but also provide greater value for customers. But don’t you... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to bolster a stressed primary care... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
do things better on the other side. In our sector, particularly on the early childcare side, the crisis is showing how essential those programs are—not only for child development, but also for families to be able to work. I can envision reinventing childcare and having... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young