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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
are looking forward to when there is a play produced about her creative life!” HBSA of Nigeria Celebrates Star Leaders at Black Tie Gala Close to 300 guests, including many HBS and Harvard alumni as well as top business leaders, converged... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
witnessed the tremendous success of SSP-SA in its first two years, she is keenly aware of the potential that the program has to influence the country’s future. Modeled after the Student/Sponsor Partnership in New York City, the SSP-SA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
out of MIT, A123’s patented rechargeable batteries include a breakthrough Nanophosphate powder that increases conductivity, providing higher power levels and longer battery life. With initial applications for commercial customers (such as View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
generates electricity as it rolls—“[a] project that makes the world a better place.” Cofounder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City that creates a line of socially beneficial play-based products, she was on Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30” list in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
alumni to inform future research. “HBS is applying the innovation model to teaching, which will make it possible to creatively inspire engaged learning ...” —Morgan McKenney (MBA 2003) “HBS is applying the innovation View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
and send it to the company via a prepaid shipping box in exchange for cash. After that, Gazelle resells the tech to individuals, wholesalers, and international buyers. So far, so good: To date, Boston-based Gazelle has handed out $150... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
marketing produced the legendary Model T, which put America on wheels and made Ford a business titan. More than 15 million Model T autos were sold in the two decades after its introduction in 1908. But... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
type-rated captain, he occasionally pilots Aero flights in addition to his duties as CFO: “Historically, the most successful models are low-cost airlines; we’re flipping that model on its head.” Aero... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
models in distinctive ways, the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF) and the Anti Racism Fund (ARF) are empowering changemakers within communities of color and forging community-business partnerships that support... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
rules of commerce: Instead of selling the “means” (their products and services), they adopt innovative revenue models to pursue “ends” (actual outcomes). They show that paying by the pill, semester, food item, vehicle, or show does not... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
copywriters at Lord Thomas invented the “salesmanship in print” business model that sustained the industry for decades to come. In short, the firm convinced clients that print ads should follow a salesman’s approach, offering the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Stephen H. Baum (MBA ’65) with Dave Conti (Crown Business) What made Jack Welch, Gordon Bethune, and Cathy Black extraordinary leaders? Based on interviews with more than two dozen CEOs and a career of serving and observing CEOs as a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
It's June 1996. Black churches are burning in the South, and up North, in Long Island, New York, a young African-American man named Shane Daniels has lain for several weeks in the hospital teetering between life and death, the widely... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
being discarded everywhere, particularly at the local Prahran market where they regularly shopped, so he researched the issue, then reached out to lend a hand. With their three young kids, the Carsons filled the back of their Volvo station wagon with View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
economy, wanted to see how the algorithm performed. What she found surprised her: Although Airbnb had designed the pricing tool to be race-blind, the algorithm nonetheless widened the revenue gap between white and Black hosts. The reasons... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
something we really need to reexamine because so many of the problems that we’ve seen in this crisis can be traced back to the application of mathematical models in an inappropriate way to financial risk management. Do you expect that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
a Business—Earl Graves & Black Enterprise A Taste of Tradition—Kenzaburo Mogi & Kikkoman READ MORE Moving Mountains—Kathy Barco & Barco-Duval Engineering Minding Families' Business—Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien & the Institute for Family... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso