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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
on his favorite music. It was just this seventies disco hit, everybody breaks out dancing. It was such a profound experience of seeing the excitement and the potential for people having a new life, and how much fun and joy they were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
visibility and visitorship. This light, open, and completely handicapped-accessible facility attracts tourists from around the world, and its signature fish-eye spiral staircase is a work of art itself. The Outcome of Income As leisure... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
that means core elements such as water, transportation, and roads, as well as access to seeds, fertilizers, and new training and technology. But any funder will be confronted with a situation where a potential grantee says, 'We'd like to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context and then assesses its impact... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
to measure. How should we measure ours? This book of advice on life is dedicated to the younger generations, which have so many capabilities and the potential to solve the many problems that we face today. Final Delivery and Eight Others... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Wruck cites one case she followed in which the initial match looked great. The target and bidder had operations in the same industry, creating a potential for synergies. But integration of the target into the acquiring firm and its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
such initiatives, say some experts, can be a happier, more productive cadre of employees-and, with that, a healthier bottom line. But beyond the potential for profit, the longer-lasting outcome of the move... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
Hawkins’s theories about brain function. (“We don’t do discovery by wet lab,” Hawkins clarifies. “We’re theorists.”) One of the first theories to become a business foundation was Hawkins’s finding that the brain’s neurons use their synapses to make predictions—about... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
the mountains, and being in snow, and eventually climbing glaciers was something that was just sort of a natural outcome for me. White: So you were climbing for years before you turned your hobby into a job. Tell me about your career... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
working to eliminate systemic racism. “My dad and my brothers and I, we feel so strongly about the potential and power of this fund,” Josh Kraft, one of Robert Kraft’s four sons, told the Boston Globe. “It starts at the top with great... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
presented, from early visionary intentions through brilliant leadership that confronted daunting bureaucratic procedures, to community voices achieving significant outcomes and eventually to an effective and exemplary partnership of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for Research on Education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
can upgrade local infrastructure and support business growth.” “It was a good outcome for all of us,” Scharfman adds. Although it is a separate venture, these days Scharfman also is excited about the View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
economy is rooted in a technology of scarcity, like fossil fuels, and there’s not enough, you get what we have today, namely, impoverished outcomes for most of humanity. If you want a society of abundance, you have to build solutions... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most crucial in today’s world have very little to do with what’s being taught in a lecture hall. We like to say that the traditional soft skills—empathy, self-awareness, resilience, creativity—are actually the power skills of the future. So, the best way that we can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
with their coauthors Sarah Wood Kearney, who founded Prime Coalition, and Fiona Murray of MIT’s Sloan School, found that investors—men and women—prefer ventures pitched by men, especially those pitched by attractive men. This finding held true when the researchers... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
stakeholders around a noble purpose; how to unleash human magic and create outcomes that defy logic; and how to become a great leader by pursuing a noble purpose and embracing one’s humanity. Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse says. “We were View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers