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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
the process, and I can’t wait to see the results. Barbara Littlefield (MBA 1988) Chairwoman and Lead Operating Officer, Resilient Infrastructure Group Collaborate Globally with Governments BIO “We all need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
introduced as part of the field method, which complements the School’s case method pedagogy. “As future leaders in a global business environment,” Thiry says, “MBAs need skills and insights informed by real-world, hands-on problem solving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Director Pat Gwin showed the group a photo of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a meticulously cataloged collection of more than 1.1 million seed varieties located 150 meters inside a mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
insurance conglomerate. He left a legacy of openness to new technologies, a commitment to employee training, and a collaborative style of leadership that had transformed the company. His success at USAA followed an equally impressive and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
ties between all of you and the School. The fact that I am the first non-U.S. member of the Alumni Board to serve in this capacity says much about the global orientation of HBS today. Having served on the board for the past three years,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
maybe even required by nonprofits for their board members. Both were smashing successes. These challenging programs — along with faculty presentations at the reunions and the annual Global Alumni Conferences — offer us a key opportunity... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Competitiveness Global Practice. In Haiti, for example, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010, Duch says that after “a crash course in strategy,” having used the HBS case method,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
rigorous analysis tests them." Rivkin and collaborators A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow, recommend combining creativity with the scientific method in an approach where a team representing diverse specialties,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
One Harvard: The Power of Collaboration For years, centuries even, Harvard has been an institution made up of distinct (and distinctive) schools conducting research and educating students largely independent of one another. As society... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
regional and global markets, and, most important, enhance their productivity. All this can be done far more efficiently in the region than with far-off partners. Whole new industries can grow up in these countries, and existing industries... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
With a growing body of knowledge supported by its global research centers, the School last May conducted its first research symposium abroad, hosting an all-day event in Rio de Janeiro for a select group of 45 Latin American business... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
project focuses on six key forces: technology trends such as automation and artificial intelligence, contingent workforces and the gig economy, workforce demographics and the “care economy,” the middle-skills gap and worker investments, View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
the highlands of east Africa, it is HIV and TB patients to whom Porter listens intently as they describe their care and treatment. It’s July 2007, and Porter is on a fact-finding trip to Rwanda, part of his work for the Global Health... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
business leadership to accelerate social change COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: What does environmental leadership look like in the age of global warming? CODE BREAKERS: Increasing the number of women in positions of leadership READY, SET,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
recognized the need for such an organization in 1999. "I wanted to provide smart people in the health-care industry with a way to come together and educate each other on current developments in the field," she says. "By bringing this group together, we've created a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New Program for Science-Based Businesses
innovation with market opportunities, and how financial markets value scientific knowledge. Participants will also discuss issues associated with finding, retaining, and motivating scientific talent and collaboratively managing technical... View Details