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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
good about myself; it’s about unlocking the great potential that exists in this community.” After joining HCZ as a senior manager and special assistant to Canada, Owusu-Kesse was named COO in 2014; in July 2020, he became CEO. (Canada... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
learned about the effects of one-to-one tutoring—that in a live environment with one great teacher and one student, you get amazing outcomes relative to group instruction. The challenge is that we can't afford one great teacher for each... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
potential for almost any service business that connects with customers over the phone. “That market is too broad for a startup,” Sambvani concedes, so the team spends a lot of time debating which of the following three ways forward makes... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
aware of the potential ramifications if the player-safety issue is not resolved satisfactorily. "At the NFL level, it's a priority to make the game better and safer through rule and equipment improvements," O'Reilly declares. He speaks... 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
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve positive health View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
would become Trey Athletes, a leadership-development program for high-potential high school athletes that Feickert founded with Brian Reynolds, a college classmate who had seen similar outcomes among his high school basketball teammates... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
have a strong network of industry partners that can serve as a sounding board and even as potential customers," Tecco says during an interview at Rock Health's Chinatown offices. (With full-time staff projected to grow from 7 to 12... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally associated with a hospital. The... 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... 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