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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
lucky to have the 15 to field a team. It was a real United Nations, right from the beginning. There were Scots, English, French, Canadians, Australians, and the Americans, who made up less than half. The extraordinary enthusiasm of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for her parents as they looked for... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
payroll). Today, we have almost 50 people working at Flatiron School. One of the great benefits of working with an incredible team is that your job isn’t necessarily to manage them, as much as it is to make sure they have what they need to execute effectively. Today, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
its reasonable hours allowed Cohen time to raise her children, Amanda (now a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council) and Eli (JD/MBA ’06). During her NTHP tenure, from 1980 to 1993, she focused on developing programs to preserve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
communities desperately need and want." —Marc Sternberg Photeine Anagnostopoulos (MBA 1985) Senior Adviser, New Jersey Department of Education FROM RESEARCH TO THE REAL WORLD "Essentially, the past decade has been devoted to R&D in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
construction to finance. Atlanta, by contrast, has had to build about half its Olympic facilities (at a cost of $550 million) and raise about three times as much money as the LA committee. The 1996 Games will dwarf the 1984 event and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current stock market slump... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Research Online
Our Work Time? An unusual number of time-management publications have crossed Professor Emeritus Jim Heskett's desk recently, leading him to ask: Who is responsible for the management of our time on the job? See... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s testing experience... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify was interested in... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
several times since then, including at CMS: which processes in health care should we try to standardize, versus which ones should be allowed to vary?” Who was your favorite HBS professor? Dhar:“Shikhar Ghosh. Professor Ghosh had an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
that entered the business world at a time when, as one classmate puts it, "we certainly heard more praise for socialism than capitalism" - respond to questions about their personal and professional involvement in social enterprise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
opening a hospital. “I didn’t want to get into real estate,” he says. “I wanted to get into a service business.” Perhaps even more appealingly, dentistry did not depend on referrals from other doctors, which turned Indian medicine into “a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
to think of ways to solve our most vexing problems in the social sector, and so we keep doing the same thing again and again, even if it’s not working. “I founded Ready to Blend a couple of years ago because there is a real need for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
School at the age of nineteen, ultimately graduating cum laude as one of the first students to receive a joint MBA/JD degree and garnering honors as a Baker Scholar with high distinction from HBS. "Commuting by bicycle between the two schools in the winter was the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
East. “At Endeavor, we believe that real economic change and growth — not just poverty alleviation — happen through entrepreneurs who are doing innovative things in their industry, country, or even globally,” says Ko. Endeavor uses a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Medical Center in Heerlen, the Netherlands. “There are two jobs at Toyota,” Bohmer agrees. “The job. And making the job better. Improvement is the real work.” At Virginia Mason Medical Center, TPS leads to a number of process changes in... View Details