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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit instilled in Leger an interest in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
suspended on that day to allow students, faculty, and staff time to follow events as they unfolded and to check on the safety of family and friends. Across the University, emergency grief counseling and other services were made available... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Layeeka Ismail
amazing melting pot with people coming from different corners of the world with different experiences and perspectives, all of whom are passionate, driven, and mission-oriented / want to change the world. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor! My... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed funding three months later. Foodology... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Resilience TrainingDepressed employees are up to five times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses. So why aren't employers helping them? What Hospitals Must Learn to CompeteWhy is it so difficult for View Details
- Profile
Yubo Cui
and its Chinese stakeholders. In a joint venture with BYD Auto, Daimler was determined to develop and manufacture an affordable electric car. “Our goal was to make it a family car, not a luxury toy,” says Yubo. “We worked ridiculously... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Juan Eyzaguirre
Juan, "the president raised the bar and made a public commitment to get health care to every single person in need immediately, a classroom for every student before the school year started, and a house to every family before the... View Details
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
(co-authored with Mrinal Sinha, UT Press, 2016). Dr. Hurtado has received the Women of Color Psychologies Award, the American Educational Research Association's SAGE Award for distinguished contributions to gender equity in education... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Anglo American in 2007, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll determined that increased transparency was important if the company—and the industry as a whole—was going to improve its safety record. “People responded... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
If you happen to be in need of human cadavers, you'll have more success targeting married nursery school teachers than, say, married cowboys or firefighters. That's essentially the implication of a new study that explores a previously unstudied subset of the View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families she grew up with eventually found themselves dispersed around the globe after seeking opportunities abroad. While she welcomed international exposure, traveling to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru by George Cloutier (MBA ’69) (HarperBusiness) Having spent over thirty years guiding business owners, Cloutier, founder and CEO of American Management Services, offers... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty line. But statistics alone tell... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)
for undergrad, but I made the conscious decision to go back and start a network and learn about Colombian business,” Llano shared. “My family has a business tradition that’s over 120 years old and I felt a responsibility to the View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
been in his family for more than a century. He huddled with locals about the idea, then helped to convene a group of motivated backers, who ultimately raised $500,000 with one fundraising letter. He later agreed to be the project’s... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli