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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
What’s usual today dates back nearly fifty years to a 1959 Ford Foundation report that sparked a revolution in American business education. The report characterized MBA programs as “vocational” in content and “indefensible” in quality,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
OCTOBER 6 Rajendra Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) brought his expertise in marketing in rural areas to the task of stopping the spread of the COVID-19, which he deems “the biggest and most serious problem facing mankind since World War II.” In India, where Aneja View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
devastating effects on children, SOS-KDI, headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria, runs special children's villages in 130 countries around the world. A village consists of a cluster of ten to fifteen homes, each of which houses six to eight... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
today: 1. Insist on doing everything through channels. 2. Make speeches. 3. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. 4. Refer all matters to committees. 5. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. 6. Haggle over precise wordings of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
firing trigger. We make every effort to help our employees succeed and achieve excellence. And we have an attitude of gratefulness." He adds: "It's not necessarily any easier to run a company based on spiritual principles, but it... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
and a team of investors bought the shuttered plant and got it up and running again. Adopting a local word for "genesis," Okoloko would call his new company Notore Chemical Industries Ltd. Looking for professional managers two years later,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
There I was, a young HBS professor who had invested all this time writing one of my first cases, and I was nervous that they would refuse to sign off on it. I remember [the protagonist] standing up and walking away to stare at the wall for what seemed like a long time.... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
high-end computer power to run many different probabilistic software approaches simultaneously. They built the system so that every component produced both a proposed answer and a confidence in that answer. They built error-analysis... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
each year who are interested in careers in health care. Our HBS Healthcare Club is one of the largest on campus, and the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association is huge. So I guess I was onto something back then! We've talked about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
role as co-CEO of Birchbox (Beauchamp continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data is precisely that it will lead... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
anger, running on empty, and siblings speak to what it’s really like to be a caregiver. You’ll find ways to ground yourself, sustain yourself day after day, and learn how to deal with slow grief. You aren’t alone. Family Caregivers: An... View Details