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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

management schools. His course, HitchHikers Guide to Business and Economies across Five Centuries , now attracts nearly a third of each graduating class. Student interest, at both the MBA and PhD level, he explained, will play a View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

million emails and 80 million meeting invitations. Shortly after a new CEO takes over, uncertainty among employees dampens communication within a company. However, after about five months, internal chatter sharply intensifies as managers... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

team knows how to have an intellectual debate; how to advocate and inquire; and how to make big bets, take in information, and make adjustments.” After being ordered to bed for the remaining five months of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

restaurants awarded five stars on the popular Yelp review service managed to carry on business as usual, despite a $1 increase in the minimum wage. But restaurants with a mediocre 3.5-star rating didn’t fare as well; the same $1 wage... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

small companies should treasure their strengths: rapid response time and innovation. "It's easy to be small, it's easy to be big and it's tough to be middle-sized. That combines northern hospitality and southern efficiency," he... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

irony Edwards savors with a smile: “At several public meetings at the White House, President Bush has referred to me as ‘my congressman.’” But not for much longer if the Republican Party has its way. The GOP painted a big target on... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

19 Jun 2017
News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

and asked for a player. And by the time the season's over, we had sent about four, five players to France. And when the next season started, we got some contact from teams in Spain, and we found ourselves with about a dozen players. Now,... View Details

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)

and Founding Partner at Imaginary Ventures), and Angela F. Williams (President and CEO of United Way Worldwide) as well as 7 panels and a startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs from big tech, AI startups, medical... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance

feeling to just belt it out, release, praise, and worship.” Rise and shine: “I get up at 4:30 or 5 because I’m a big believer in working out. I toggle back and forth between Peloton and doing a hot yoga workout to hip-hop music.” Press... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; public education; leadership; charter schools; career paths; work-life balance; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

scandal generating more than five New York Times pieces in the month following news of the incident led to an 8.8 percent drop; and long-form coverage of a scandal was followed by a 10.4 percent decline. “These long-form stories that go... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

18 Jan 2022
News

HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Atlanta area, but the only college in Georgia founded solely by African-American patronage. The school lost its accreditation in 2004, but has worked diligently since then... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to growing crops that offers a more... View Details

04 Jun 2025
News

Slice of Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, plus access to the online valuation models and course. The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros: Five Steps for Picking Stocks (Little Books. View Details

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

think about this work, everything we do focused on strength and the link between education opportunity, there’s really five big enablers of equitable pathways to opportunity through post-secondary education... View Details

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

students. So we thought, why not?” “This is orders of magnitude more complex,” says Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “I don’t think the School has ever done anything quite like this. It’s been a View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

19 Jun 2018
News

Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

were setting up headquarters in Pittsburgh. “We had close to 100 HBS alumni working at Westinghouse alone,” he says. “Then we had a slump in membership in the 1990s. But we’ve had a big drive to bring membership numbers up. We now run... View Details