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- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
point in life where they can give some time and share their considerable skills but they don't know where to go to volunteer." Last year, with the help of several professionals from Microsoft who had founded the original SVP in Seattle,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
Leadership Now Project’s Business for Racial Equity Pledge? Lisa Lewin: It started with a group of friends, fellow senior business executives and HBS alums, all of us members of the Leadership Now Project. It started off as a set of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
day and you are likely to see a story about the hazards of outdoor pollution, but how often do you see a story about building health? Our regulatory system is also geared toward the outdoor environment, too. In the United States we have the Clean Air Act, which View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
switch to CD format, sales picked up considerably as customers rushed out to replace their vinyl record collections with the same music reissued on the new technology. Now, explains Zelnick, the CD boom has played itself out. "The CD... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Relations staff with a goal of describing HBS finances and demystifying some of the commonly held beliefs about the School's funding needs. These sessions were instrumental in informing the students and setting expectations for a lifetime... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
after retirement. Levy was seeing the same set of circumstances play out in her day job at the time, as president of Thrive Global, a wellness company she founded with CEO Arianna Huffington. “Something that was quite frustrating to me... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
innovation and crisis. “Is there a structural relation between innovation and crisis? I think there has to be,” Merton said. Successful innovation will always outstrip the infrastructure to support it, at least for some considerable time.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
explains, “Intel and a number of other exciting companies were just getting started, so there was considerable interest in smaller businesses. I wanted to be part of that ferment, and the risk involved made it all the more appealing to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
relations powerhouse Hill & Knowlton) for $566 million. It was the equivalent of a minnow swallowing a whale. "They were thirteen times our size, but it was an opportune moment to strike," he explains. "JWT had lost some high-profile accounts, and there was View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
successor, Dean Kim B. Clark, set out to honor McArthur's contributions to the School, the natural forum for doing so was a research symposium. In a new book that pays tribute to McArthur and the research that he both inspired and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Light noted. The current crisis, he continued, inevitably will lead to “an entirely new financial system with a new set of regulators, a new set of regulations, and frankly, a new View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi and View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business model View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
in 1949 following a successful postwar experiment with seven secretaries, changed all that. The lively, conversational style of "Pioneer Class Secretary" Robert R.C. Miller's (MBA 6/'48) first submissions sets the stage for years to come:... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
also been steadfastly pursuing greater socio-economic inclusion. We have made considerable strides in increasing need-based financial aid, so that a person's ability to attend HBS does not depend on their financial circumstances. Beyond... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
this world,” she says. “There should be no monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.”... View Details