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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities and families together, to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
returned. Throughout the rest of 2007, she endured months of especially difficult rounds of chemotherapy and painful side effects. Yet Jen refused to let her physical condition interfere with the effort to assist others. As she wrote in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
It was a great way to end my tenure as board chair,” she observes. In all, Brooks has lived in, worked in, or visited 85 countries; and she is not done yet. “My goal is to hit 100; I would really like to go to Antarctica,” she says. In... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
global event. That was the goal. Tell me about the program. For the Vendée Globe, we published a Teacher’s Guide for a 15-week program. Fifty U.S. newspapers published my accompanying weekly series, written live from the boat, with essays... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
models of all shapes, ages and abilities. Catherine Connell Dr. Catherine Connell is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Dr. Connell is a qualitative researcher focused on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
of the business community, HBS assistant professor Abrami said in an interview. The Chinese built their economy on a system of dual-class citizenship, one that designated any individual living away from his... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
they conclude they can’t stay given the requirements of the job. Unless employers assist them so they can stay in the job, they give up a productive worker. Their replacement is an unknown quantity. Employers constantly make speculative... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
distribution: (1) assistance selecting funds that are harder to find or harder to evaluate, (2) access to funds with lower costs excluding distribution costs, (3) access to higher performing funds, (4) superior asset allocation, and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
the winter; the other is sticking around to assist with Bear Hug’s own cattle operation. Tristen is headed back home to Washington, where he’ll learn how to build saddles until the next hiring season rolls around. All of which is very... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
“All the best tips and training for how to best run a classroom, or a school, are wrapped up in basic management and leadership skills.” You applied to the MBA program while you were assistant principal of a middle school. Why did that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
the Miami Hurricanes, was well known for crediting the players and assistant coaches for victories, for not promoting himself, and for staying "smaller than his program," it was said. The players' confidence in Coker—that he... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
forth as a solution. But HBS assistant professor Daniel Snow, who studies the application of new technology, offers a caveat. Snow, who has worked with both Honda and Ford, points out that technological advances are a plus only if... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
aspirations because Mandela encouraged them. This excerpt originally appeared on www.hbr.org on December 5, 2013. Read the full article. Gautam Mukunda, Assistant Professor of Business Administration: It is impossible for any words to do... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
public service, because it makes this data, most of which exist in archival databases of the EPA, much more readily accessible," says Michael Toffel, an expert on industry self-regulation and an assistant professor in the Technology... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Roland de Demandolx (MBA 2002) who led the effort. “It's a key event of the year that gives us the opportunity to reach out to alumni running other HBS Alumni Clubs across Europe and Israel. It is also a way to assist the school in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
likelihood of success was 15 percent at best. But by December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. What lies behind... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
for Growth & Innovation I was an incoming MBA student at HBS in 1984 from the Philippines. It was my first time living abroad, and for the first few months after my arrival in Cambridge, I felt quite lonely for home. One day, I received a... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on them for the rest of their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna