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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
adjustment for older faculty who had taught only in a single-sex classroom. "One senior professor was always hesitant to call on me until I spoke to him about it," says Wilkinson. "We got that settled." It was a new experience for many of... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
book, because I honestly thought that the last thing the world needed was another business book. Laughs And although I liked to think I had something interesting to say, it’s a big deal to ask people to set aside ten hours of their life... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Morrell: It was Brady's job to take four SEALs on his helicopter, drop them off at a spot overlooking the Korengal Valley, and stick around till they found a good place to hide. And he did that, and then headed back as the sun began to rise. Hours later, he was awoken... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
there is a bustle of activity as the premises are readied to receive the three hundred guests who will arrive for an evening reception and book-signing party to celebrate the publication of a handsome new volume, Adventures with Old... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
doctoral degree. “It was made clear that choosing academia requires a great deal of perseverance,” she comments. “It’s a long and difficult transition from being a consumer to a producer of knowledge, but it’s also stimulating and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
foreseen that the insights and problem-solving strategies they would gain would soon help them deal with the profound challenges posed by the pandemic. “The timing of the Leading People course I took in October 2019 was particularly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team’s members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team delivered the bad news that the technology wasn’t going to pan out. But they then... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social responsibility. (Goodwin just announced he is moving into a View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
making many small bets is actually much riskier. That's why Hollywood will keep making blockbuster bets even if the returns over the summer were rather disappointing. Anyone with a smartphone and a computer is now a content provider. How has View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent system in the first place?... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. I had an opportunity to speak with Catherine D’Amato, GBFB’s CEO, and I was incredibly impressed with the organization’s vision for the future. It... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
to uncover new facts about things that you do even regularly, but you're trying to find new ways of thinking about it. Lider Sucre class of 1997, MBA. The best piece of advice I ever got for business and,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
period in which there will be a lot more regulation. So we have to find a way to help the next generation of business leaders know how to deal with the new regulatory infrastructure that is being created. A... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
thought about that and discerned, and then went out and did it. So here were a bunch of people given $500 to give away. And at the church, those of us who were in leadership said, you know, for some of you, really paying it forward actually means View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
there is an audible buzz—the sound of deals being made. Over coffee and fresh bread, someone with an idea and someone with the knowledge, money, or connection to turn that idea into a reality are hatching a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer... View Details