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- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
Professor Rafael Di Tella and Associate Professor Vincent Pons discuss populism in democratic countries from Bolivia to France to the United States. Building a Strong and Prosperous Society University Professor Rebecca Henderson discusses the need for an honest,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New England Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to software code. "Spot labor" View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
microchip: “I remember that it was perceived by lots of people as affecting only the computer industry; but, of course, it’s led to the cellular phone and the internet, and it has changed all our lives. The same is going to happen here,” he says. True View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England HBS Association of Boston Marco... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
The Business of Fashion's philosophy, says Amed, is transparency and inclusion. (Courtesy Imran Amed) It was more happy accident than business plan: Imran Amed (MBA 2002), a former McKinsey consultant, was between jobs in 2007 when he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
also cofounded a health-care systems education site (www.improvehealthcare.org) at HMS and a discussion group composed of students at the Medical School. “We need to focus on wellness and not on unreasonably prolonging life,” Jain observes. “There also needs to be full... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
not photoshopped to perfection but are flawed, vulnerable, and in-your-face. This total transparency generates a level of authenticity and intimacy with audiences that traditional marketing tactics cannot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Anglo American in 2007, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll determined that increased transparency was important if the company—and the industry as a whole—was going to improve its safety record. “People responded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
of environmental toxins are powerful, still somewhat mysterious influences on our health. Simple tests that make those tendencies more transparent will result in basic behavioral changes and healthier lives overall. "Things are about to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Manufacturers. China and the World Trade Organization Within this context of quickening economic change, China was admitted to the WTO in December 2001, culminating fifteen years of on-again, off-again negotiations. It was a watershed moment in the country’s progress... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
“Part of what I’m doing is just acknowledging the realness of what we’re going through,” she explains. This is what leading with transparency can look like in the day-to-day. For all its potential messiness and vulnerability, View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
federal policy would really be helpful to create a uniform landscape for the capital markets and the technologies to respond to.” Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002) and VP of infrastructure, energy and environment at the Business Roundtable—which... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
boardrooms, academia, and the business press to examine their roles in sustaining or promoting worrisome flaws in the process corporations use to fill their top office. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) HBS Press Books in Brief As the recent failures of prominent B2B View Details