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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
starting to crest. Complete Table of Contents September 2021 Growing Home Yoshito Hori is revitalizing his hometown—and hoping to inspire other entrepreneurs to do the same My Pandemic Pivot Alumni share the personal and professional... View Details
- Web
The Benefits of a Residential Campus - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
that common vision and common strategy, you have to be able to communicate what it is. AW: Was there an aha moment where you said, oh, this is a book? CD: I got into this bad pattern with my wife, which was that I would come home for a... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
hospitals. The e-commerce giant JD developed a drone program to drop parcels and to spray disinfectant. Smart helmets can identify anyone with fever within a five-meter radius. For other businesses, especially those where digital and... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time is to be published today. Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to her many years of teaching and research at HBS,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
that the home is generally in good condition, although the seller knows the furnace conks out with some regularity. A month after the buyer takes ownership, the furnace blows. The seller may still stand by the statement that the house was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
with a napping cat affixed to her side and an iced coffee sweating in one hand. On the other, she is counting out the projects that are currently occupying her time and headspace, all endeavors that she’ll launch from this new home base:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
metaverse Decentralized networks and applications; users control/monetize their data Smart applications EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB Web 1.0 1990–2005 Web 2.0 2005–Present Web 3.0/Web3 2020s– "Read-only" web (Encyclopædia Britannica,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Profile
Ahmed Alimi
accountant" for the small business his mother ran in his home country, Nigeria. He continued to study accounting in high school, then pivoted to the actuarial sciences when he attended the University of Lagos. In the following six... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
barrel careening over Niagara Falls. It’s not that IoT has flopped; far from it. Everything in our homes seems to be connected. IoT devices enable networks that make possible smart speakers, View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
uncovered a problem that prevented greater racial equity gains: Black hosts were 41 percent less likely than white hosts to take advantage of the smart pricing application. And for the Black hosts who didn’t use it during the study... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
African American social life that revolved around church, adds Miller. Walker associated comfortably with churchgoing folk, and while maintaining her punishing schedule of business travel by train, she was invited to stay in the homes of... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
farther you get from your home base, the harder it is to be confident of that knowledge. Be aware that processes you consider core may turn out to be very different from those used by the target company. Cultural differences and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
Gbadegesin has lived more than half of his life in the United States and speaks perfect English with a slight Midwestern accent, he is still at heart a Nigerian. Armed with his MBA, he will return home to launch an identification system... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
the United States, and I attended Harvard. I want to be the vector connecting all of these different worlds.” Parlez-vous? “French is my first language and it’s still one of my favorites because it’s so beautiful. I also speak Spanish in addition to English.” View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details