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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
time. What helps? A clear sense of purpose, yoga, centering prayer, and a strong network of support. That support can be from friends who understand and share your values (for me, my church community) or from professionals (a dementia... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
becoming an engineer, a course he pursued at the University of Virginia. He now jokes about how he “moonlighted” as an engineering student while pursuing his passion for the theater and community service. Upon graduation, Williams knew he wanted an engineering job that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
global value chains and global competitors. And recruiting itself became global,” notes Palepu. As the nascent globalization process picked up steam in the 1990s, HBS began to grapple with its implications for the MBA Program, says... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
think all New Yorkers felt personal outrage that this had happened and a commitment to seeing the city rebuild." "To see that kind of trauma inflicted on my city made me angry," declares Paige Sutherland (MBA '85), a former investment... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
survey of HBS alumnae from the Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1991 indicates that only 38 percent of the respondents are currently working full-time. However, other findings from the survey suggest that a growing number of these former View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
(MBA 2011). This year, the NextGen Angels, led by president Brett Gibson (MBA 2011), has invested further in its big idea: launching angel groups in New York (run by Kelsey Morgan [HBS 2011]), Chicago, Boston and Austin, growing to more... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
carved out business opportunities despite formidable odds, including Madam C.J. Walker, a daughter of slaves who founded a million-dollar hair-care enterprise. Gail J. McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments in Boston, asked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
you feel stupid,” says Atwood. “He values our opinions. He never draws a line in the sand. It’s very collaborative.” Solutions are often crowdsourced. “He’ll ask us ‘What do you think about this?’ as opposed to ‘You better do this’ and... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
impact coming from? Lisa Lewin: First, I think what we have seen from consumers has been incredible. Their increasing commitment to spending money on companies and brands aligned with their values has been an incredible, catalyzing force... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she says. A family friend in View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
industries, such as organic agriculture, grew up to serve these and other demands. And individual business leaders, experimenting with forms of social entrepreneurship, developed product offerings and built firms that were intended to both create View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
chain YogaWorks went public in August, valued at about $40 million; and Wanderlust’s yoga-focused festivals have attracted major crowds and major sponsors. But the bigger the business of yoga gets, the further away it moves from its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
build my own company.” So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would become EyeView. “It didn’t feel like I was taking as much of a risk because I was still a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
markets differed, but the belief in local autonomy and decentralized decision-making became a core value within the company .Meanwhile, the largest American consumer products company remained cautious about international markets. During... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
times,” Datar notes, “it is our community that provides us comfort and our values that give us strength.” Note: Please see this page for guidance on contacting others in the HBS alumni network. HARVARD RESOURCES Scholars at Risk (SAR)... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig