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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
changed the way we work. But according to Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993), some of the core tenets of interpersonal communication that were important in the office remain just as important in our new digital workspaces—we just need to adjust... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
means my team is involved in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from purchasing, engaging with food donors, delivery scheduling, product inspection, and assortment optimization.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work? “There... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
compete in this brave new world. The transformation ignited by the Internet is creating a new paradigm in the financial services industry, characterized by surprising business structures. "The competitive landscape is changing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a change or a value is often not in lockstep with the actual data. The other one is I've had a few cases where I'm successfully able to sort of trick myself into doing things or just accepting things that I need to be accepting. So one... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
It wasn’t necessary to understand the technology that powered the company’s washing machines, turbines, or jet engines. “But executives now need to understand the technologies behind their products and think about their implications on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from 5 to 45 gigawatt-hours, or... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
experience working with a Ukrainian supplier named Rolin Kostya, who continues to make his products under great duress. “The week I spoke to them, there had been a half dozen air raid warnings—and indeed one interrupted the Zoom call—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
old ones, capacity expansion, and product and process innovation. Ghemawat is the author of a widely cited book, Commitment, as well as seminal articles on the sustainability of competitive advantage. His latest book, Games Businesses... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
economy business models,” noted Cyberposium cochair David Margalit (MBA 2001). “This year’s conference reflected that change in attitude.” Opening speaker Tim Koogle, then CEO of Yahoo!, shared the presentation spotlight with a dozen... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
research shows that being raised by mothers and fathers who work both inside and outside the home gives children a signal that contributions at home and at work are equally valuable, for both men and women.” Still, the changes and choices... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value chains... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was undergoing a transition we called... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
since 2007 by Cynthia Carroll (MBA ’89), the first woman and first non–South African to hold the firm’s top spot. In addition to South Africa, from which it derives roughly half its profits, Anglo operates in some 45 countries, employing about 160,000 workers. Its... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
come to fruition and become real, productive companies. “I remember my dad visiting ViaCord in the early days, when I had only 10 employees. He came in and said, ‘Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.’ That... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
and forced a major reexamination of how investment decisions are made at Blackstone, resulting in changes with a significant positive impact on the firm's success. Today, Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
"I feel the way Darwin must have felt when he came across the Galï¡pagos Islands." An innovative collaboration between Kaplan and University Professor Michael Porter is starting to change this state of affairs. In the early 2000s, Porter... View Details