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- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
model that will draw faculty, students, and alumni from across the University to reinvent how companies compete and thrive in the 21st century. "How will we do this?" he said. "By focusing on big problems, on an open platform, with... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
we have this web of doers. The business model is very much like the network-based mobilization that we see in the tech world. This is not a top-down organization. Everyone owns it. One of our founding members, for example, is Gisel... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
master classes for construction workers. The organization is currently exploring international collaborations. “Government policies should foster the self-construction market and see it as a solution to the growing housing crisis. We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
management,” declares HBS professor John Quelch, an expert in international marketing and business development. He describes this style as an amalgam, built atop a U.S. model that has borrowed freely from... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces
Bridgitt Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its ability to challenge existing norms. Now she is transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund— Visionary Initiatives in Art—a new model of funding for... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
model that has found success elsewhere in the world to the MENA market. Circumventing obstacles presents opportunities for MENA entrepreneurs. Despite being one of the most connected regions in the world, with 88 percent of people online... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
end of high school they’re scoring substantially below their international peers. We believe that if you really want students to learn, you need small class sizes, highly qualified instructors, and an experiential learning program.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
first salon the following year. The celebrity hairdresser Charles Nessler, interned as an enemy alien in Britain, also escaped to New York under a false identity and built a new business. The 1917 Communist revolution in Russia produced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
re-education occurred when Spier won an opportunity to lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, a three-hour steak-a-thon. Buffett encouraged his dining companions to live their lives by an internal scorecard and to filter out distractions and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
planning, among other topics. Wells says the active roles students played, along with the focus on business development and social enterprise advising, make the Rwanda IXP a potential model for more View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new organizational View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
he hired him to head OU’s leadership programs and to work with its International Programs Center and other campus initiatives as an inspirational role model for students. And who wouldn’t he inspire? A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
strategy practice leaders, warn that internal complexity is the silent killer of sustainable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core. They don’t stray from their business View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
Also on the agenda would be managing internal and external communications, including dealing with the press and public about the controversies surrounding our work. And the person would have to run the administrative side to make sure we... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky explain why we shouldn't fear the Terminator, on the Skydeck podcast Google can identify a dog because the search engine has been fed millions of images of dogs—all labeled as such by humans—and it’s used those images to create a visual... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
modeled after those on campus, is the new home for an expanding roster of Executive Education programs offered to Indian business leaders. Days after the official opening, seats filled with eager participants in a program titled Building... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
philanthropic investments, Dean and his family agreed on three priorities: government, economics, and education. HBS has been and continues to be an important part of their philanthropy, providing leadership support for HBS’s Dean’s Fund, MBA fellowships, and View Details