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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
probably before, Bohemian glass wages were just a fifth of ours. "Beggar-thy-Neighbor" was scarcely a derisive term in the glass business, for as de Tocqueville pointed out in 1832, we were blessed with a comparatively large View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
sometimes good enough even if its predictions are highly inaccurate. Nearly all the ads that Google and Facebook serve me haven’t the slightest relationship to what I’m interested in, yet compared to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
Merton noted that "risk management will become an essential internal process for the lending institution if it expects to remain viable and competitive." By demonstrating mathematically how to determine... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This year's committees are Club Relations, chaired by Amelie Vecchione (MBA '84); Online Services for Alumni, chaired by Michael V. Jennings (MBA '68); and Continuing Education for Alumni, chaired by Susan... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
leadership, computer science education is a place to start. That’s the logic behind groups like Girls Who Code that combine the power of role modeling with an early introduction to computer programming and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
distinctive and important features of this School,” said Dean Kim B. Clark, who announced the gift in March. “This is an intellectual community — a residential setting in which MBA students, doctoral candidates, View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
make substantial changes, including paying for language classes. While workers in their 40s and older often resist language mandates more than 20-somethings, Neeley says the older workers at Rakuten also shared advantages: they frequently... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
American strengths. As the country approaches the 2008 presidential election, America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again (Crown) offers a nonpartisan agenda for change that Kanter urges U.S. leaders to pursue “at a time when our... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Harvard alumni living in Mexico and elsewhere and the other half from corporate donations, mainly from Mexican companies. Harvard provided matching funds to the first $1 million, as part of an initiative to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
miracle. Professor David B. Yoffie served as informal moderator and faculty chair. Global Gathering Early in the opening session on April 6, conference chairman Robert Piccus and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
community-building events. GLOBAL RESEARCH CENTERS AND OFFICES HBS’s 11 global centers and 7 regional offices are the nexus for the School’s international research View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
showed the right level of conviction." A summer internship at Goldman Sachs resulted in a job offer. But when Petzel learned of an opening in another division that appealed to him more, he turned down the first offer and had to reapply.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
change, we need to get to net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this goal is possible, but it will require nothing less than a national and international mobilization to support economy-wide decarbonization... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Farzad Those were the searing words of my editor, as I handed him the HBS recommendation form and a stamped envelope. This was my mentor, mind you — the mensch who launched me into feature writing after taking me in as a Wall Street... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. “We became good friends,” she recalls, adding that she applied a number of Levitt’s insights over the years in her role as president and CEO of Estée Lauder... View Details