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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
the boardroom environment is more challenging than ever, the learning needs of directors have grown. There currently exists a hodgepodge of optional director training programs at universities, associations, and for-profits, but they are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
was recorded in the Cards’ World Series win. DeWitt Jr., 65, learned the ins and outs of the game at the side of his father, Bill, who started selling peanuts for the Cardinals in 1916 and rose to vice president and treasurer in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
1966): I'd never met anyone like Jimmy before. He was the son of a coal miner and was a scholarship student his whole life—at George Heriot's School, where he learned rugby; at the University of Edinburgh; and then at HBS. Another fellow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Wolfensohn. “He’s incredibly wise and thoroughly experienced. When he knew something, he’d tell me. When he didn’t know something, we’d try to ponder it through together. And when I didn’t agree with him, I’d tell him so. “So it was an extraordinarily open... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives for staying sober. “But no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
students from around the world. To a person, the founders are proud of what they helped build together—both a groundbreaking organization and the momentum necessary to effect lasting change at HBS. “You know, inclusion should be an objective well beyond the educational... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
be able to learn how not to run a business, and I figured it was time to go learn what the mistakes were and how not to repeat them in the future. That’s pretty much how I ended up at Harvard.” With an MBA... View Details
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- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily on lessons View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Google isn’t completely shutting down the online ad industry, says Gupta. In March, the tech giant unveiled its new cookie-alternative technology called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), a browser standard that will allow companies to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Millennium Development Goals which range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, they provide sustainable benefits to a developing community for multiple generations, and they have the ability to impart the skills View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
billion of the excessive costs of U.S. health care while all too many quality measures have worsened. Patients learn — sometimes the hard way — to bring along an assertive, intelligent loved one to protect them during a hospital stay.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Illustration by Decue Wu HBS professor Deepak Malhotra recalls the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a tragedy that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six staff members... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
truly customer-centric, Kristy and I have to be working hand in glove,” says Flatley. It’s something she learned as she rose through the ranks of PepsiCo: The people who own the insights, she says, are closest to the consumer. “I see her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s smallest villages and its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
part of the HBS experience: students, by the example of their own lives, informing and learning from each other. Mamongae Mahlare Mahlare at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Some trailblazers smash down barricades; others, like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of US workers hate their jobs and don’t want to show up on Monday morning, and Slater lays some of the blame for this at the doors of leaders: When their selfish actions diminish the effectiveness of their teams, they commit the ultimate failure in leadership. But when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
private-sector companies that have achieved quality customer service: understanding customer needs; setting out clear goals; organizing, motivating, and training employees; revamping plans and procedures; upgrading technology; measuring results; and View Details