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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
1,000 retail outlets, including Target and Toys “R” Us. Revenue has grown rapidly with just one flavor, but after multiple discussions with venture capital groups, it became clear that investors were looking for companies that had reached... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days, Kovatch has held View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
have them, they have a long-term bond but it's probably the least damaging solution to the problems they are facing right now.” Felipe Monteiro, a senior researcher at HBS's Latin America Research Center (LARC) in Buenos Aires, moderated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
their Instagram. I’m logging on to Deepak Chopra’s meditation center and doing a meditation from their Instagram. Those are powerful for me because I’m reaching audiences that I would never have reached otherwise. And the difference is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
organizations—our students today do not care about this divide. So many of them come to HBS with a deep interest not only in making profit but also in doing good. So it’s multiple stakeholders putting pressure on businesses, and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
he ran in 2009 in San Francisco, Houston, and New York, where he asked the audience about their attitudes on climate change, doing a “show-of-hands” survey. At that time, about half of the New York alumni who participated advocated for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
THE BIG PICTURE: Teddy Zee, Douglas Mankoff, Diane Nabatoff, and Eric d'Arbeloff in Beverly Hills. The summer blockbuster, a genre unto itself, has long been seen as a surefire way to lure audiences to the air-conditioned sanctum of movie... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
impact of a robust get out the vote effort. The trio visited the country multiple times to develop and roll out a text message campaign to encourage voting, which ultimately reached 2 million—about 40 percent—of Kenya’s registered voters.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
photo by Douglas Barnes In 2011, Shiv Gaglani (MBA 2016) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins facing the same problem that confronts many medical students: staid, time-consuming lectures. Gaglani knew that the fundamental medical... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
will seem quaint in comparison, say the HBS alumni behind the nonpartisan group, Reform Elections Now (REN), who gave a virtual presentation to the HBS Club of Dallas in early September to educate and engage business leaders on the specific View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
devote some detail to how managers should communicate. Dissenting managers must speak clearly, recognize opposing views, state the problem as they see it, and recommend a solution. "Your first few sentences, in either a verbal... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
Haacker: strategic planning in Alaska's Denali National Park. photo courtesy John Haacker Dimas: reaching a wider audience at Boston's Gardner Museum. photo courtesy Jennifer Dimas It's not often that an MBA student's research involves a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
tweeted by Carroll’s friends, posted on social news sites, shared with Facebook friends, and picked up by bloggers. From there it was a quick hop to the mainstream media; by the end of July, the video had been viewed 4.6 million times, with external references... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
more oversight will be required in the future. Highlights of remarks made at the three sessions follow. AN ANXIOUS TIME: HBS faculty members Nicolas Retsinas, Clayton Rose, David Moss, and Robert Merton spoke about the financial crisis before an View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
math, and coached the track team, which he founded, to multiple Division III New England prep school championships. Ellison, who spent five years in the Marine Corps — he finished first in his class at Officers Candidate School — before... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance
Addressing that question, she noted, “is how you solve the multiple problems that life throws at you.” “Hot dog day” is one school innovation. Students divide into teams once a month to either procure, cook,... View Details