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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Business as a Force for Good in Society
Illustration by Dana Smith In a world facing myriad complex challenges, Harvard Business School is actively exploring how capitalism is working, what leadership role business can and should play in making it work better, and how business can be a force for good in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Wisdom and a special cause
($48,000 last year) go to the Rhode Island Special Olympics, of which Adrain is a longtime officer and former president. Adrain contacts successful individuals and asks them to share the important beliefs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
the practice of business. This is a rare blend of characteristics, and competition for outstanding faculty is growing. Moreover, an entire generation of faculty who helped shape View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
business partner. The other was her microwave. Day was in the habit of cooking all her meals just as her mom had done when she was a child, but she had to believe in her own product—which meant that every... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
buildings, and for graduate housing as well as four new undergraduate houses. The report represents the first step in giving shape to Harvard’s vision for View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
remarks. “But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped vehicle that they wouldn’t categorize as a ‘real’ bicycle. The challenge is to change View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
became instrumental in shaping our country’s food culture. From doing early business planning for the Food Network—“People were just starting to think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
happened was, there were a wave of notes from my classmates started coming from all over the rows to me. Like this hidden wave, underneath the desks, like in a boat. View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
Kim Wahl (MBA 1987) Kim Wahl (MBA 1987) credits the case method with providing training that has helped him address difficult and unexpected business challenges. “The two years that I spent at HBS shaped me... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
markets. The newest regional offices, which opened this past year in Dubai, Singapore, and Tel Aviv, provide a means for understanding the unique economic and cultural factors View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
demeanor might cause the casual observer to mistake the former Dean of Harvard Business School for a “regular guy,” rather than a legendary leader who has spent 60 years View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
excited to see this next wave of computing arrive. He has been at the forefront of a number of tech innovations over the course of his career, all of which made grand claims:... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
their companies: What business are we really in?" the authors write. "Their answers will determine their fate in an increasingly frictionless economy." Both Hagel and Singer are principals at McKinsey & Company. Their award-winning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young