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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
the vehicle, and up to 1,000 meters ahead, in order to drive those long stretches of highway safely, saving the human drivers for shorter distance pickups and deliveries in cities and towns. The company had 70 trucks on the road... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
send their children to private schools, as well as providing enrichment activities such as music lessons or summer camps. As parents, they have more time to spend with their children, particularly when they are very young, and in the process pass along soft skills.... View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
and gaming, media and fan engagement, human performance, and data analytics and monetization.” The $60 million in initial funding, the Globe notes, includes capital from DraftKings as well as the ownership... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
"I think the human race is beginning to unravel what life is," says Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999). "I find that intellectually fascinating." His interest, and a desire to make a difference, led Farquharson to the life sciences industry,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Michael Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1975. An expert in the areas of organizational effectiveness, change, and human resource management, Beer has authored or coauthored... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
but much too dense, and ludicrously unsuccessful." Even rewriting the case and dividing it into two sections, one a broad look at German capitalism and the other an examination of Thyssen Steel, did not make the material much more... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
There’s a New Class in Town
Members of the MBA Class of 2010 (900 in all) reported for duty in September. Selected from a pool of 8,661 applicants, the group is 38 percent women and 33 percent international. Just over 200 of the incoming students have an industry background in consulting; venture... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- News
Maternity Leave Isn’t Enough to Retain New Moms
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
needed to know," says Sheyner, who went on to work in private equity at Fidelity Equity Partners and Bain Capital Partners before coming to HBS. PE PREP The most common question in private equity interviews? "Walk me through your past... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
should think seriously about avoiding VC funding and finding other ways to learn about the road ahead. Each type of founder has a different definition of success and varying degrees of outside influence they will and should tolerate. A Rich founder whose firm is... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- News
How the Pandemic Changed Talent Management
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital... View Details