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- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
of your vehicle. And it could mean that you’re not going to make it to orbit. Those are mistakes that can be done with very strong engineers. On the people side: It’s easy for engineers to fall prey to the “not made here” syndrome or “not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
an effort to make an MBA more accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, HBS announced last year that it would cover the total cost of tuition and fees—approximately $150,000 over the course of two years—for those with the greatest View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
Foundation, Seizing Every Opportunity (SEO), Consortium for Graduate Management (CGSM), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Council for Legal Education Opportunity, Ron Brown Scholars, QuestBridge, Urban Dove, Year Up *Don't... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
he successfully implemented his ideas. When McArthur became Dean, the School was on tenuous financial footing, relying heavily on the MBA Program for revenue. He grew the publishing division and executive education offerings, both of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
offers free cradle-to-grave service on a financial software product that costs, at most, $50, said Frei. If Intuit fielded the same number of customer service calls as its competition, it would be out of business, she said. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA
development program created by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS), the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School (HBS) , is designed to help develop this new generation of tech... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
growth. It’s achieved by, among other things, concentrating on nonfinancial as well as financial outcomes, outsourcing and “renting” everything from assets to talent, using information and innovation from everywhere (not just internally)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls... View Details
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
When Deborah Farrington and her two sisters were growing up, their mother and father made it clear to all of them at an early age that they could do anything they set their minds to. Her father worked in financial services at Lehman... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
focused on selling software to engineers and designers and might not be as committed to selling hardware, which cost less and offered a lower commission. Selling on Amazon was the easiest option of all, but meant sacrificing 12 to 18... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
It took achieving success to teach Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) how to be successful. "Find something exciting and that you are passionate about that has meaning beyond just financial gain," Schrader, co-founder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to pursue this goal has been circuitous. While studying civil View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
a medical device engineer working on products for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
engineering firm. "It was tough in those early years," he says. "I learned that it's easier to bring sound business practices to organizations that have major environmental mandates and are facing really complex problems." As a principal... View Details