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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
TraceTogether. It subsequently became both the subject of his book’s final chapter and the focus of a case Weiss coauthored and taught this fall in his Public Entrepreneurship MBA elective course, which is designed for MBA students who... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
with the company’s president one day, the man suggested that Ross go to HBS. “It was an unbelievable experience,” Freeman recalls. “Competing against such a talented group of people, at that level, really helped me gain self-confidence and a belief in my own decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
return on investment won’t conveniently happen in one election cycle. Your research looks at the various ways that stimulus funds can go astray. Could you give an example? You tend to see two big classes of problems in terms of money not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control — so, obviously, creativity is a big factor.” In her new elective course, Leading Innovative Ventures, HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Davin Chow, Adam Prewett, and Kevin Yttre (all MBA ’08). Tripsas, who teaches the Linear case in the elective Leading Innovative Ventures, sees the instructive qualities of flexibility, experimentation, and risk management in Herp’s... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
shortly before Nelson Mandela was elected president and she stood out because there weren’t many African-Americans there at the time. As a result, people kept asking who she was and what she did and then telling her the country needed... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
the world. Professor David Garvin, for example, developed a multimedia case — in real-time — that followed the newly appointed CEO of a local medical center as he attempted to turn around the organization. Professor Michael Porter “virtually” cotaught an View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
expect we haven’t seen the last of it. When it comes to corruption here, the bad guys don’t even have to be clever. But, to her credit, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa’s first elected female head of state and a graduate of Harvard’s... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
that we have the lab model firmly established at HBS as an important part of the portfolio of the ways we do research and that the platform components are all humming. I hope that we will have created new courses in both the Required Curriculum and the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
“We are working with selected schools to teach this program in an interactive learning manner, so it inspires the students and they are able to internalize the skills,” Bhargava explains. Other schools have introduced entrepreneurship into their course offerings as an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Press, proposes that entrepreneurial thinking will be the key to government’s ability to solve big problems (written by Professor of Management Practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow Mitchell B. Weiss). Scaling Minority Businesses, a new MBA View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
good at it. Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA 1972) (Potomac Books) Every four years Americans embark on the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
time when Professor Malcolm McNair invited him to do so, despite Walter not having yet been appointed assistant professor at least that is the way I remember my attendance that day in the second-year elective course, Retailing. I was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
question in hundreds of companies. Should you trade down your product line to broaden the market you serve? These are issues that do not go away, and I think that’s what makes the case an enduring one.” HBS assistant professor David Godes now teaches Sealed Air in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
states, and countries—entities that aspire to go on forever—must nonetheless run for reelection every few years. In some cases, they no sooner win one election than they are forced to run for reelection. Fearing loss of their seats, they... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
unusual corporate culture “started with extreme cynicism,” recalls CEO Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), who recently joined Garvin as he taught the case in the elective General Management: Processes and Action. “But by the end of the... View Details
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