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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
Stopping in Hong Kong during a fast-paced tour of Asia that also included visits to Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark made an important announcement about the School's Global Initiative at an October 29 dinner hosted View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
I was overqualified," Royo says, "but they took a chance on me anyway." During his five-year tenure in that position, Royo played a significant role in developing a state-of-the-art intranet system at the School that provides those within... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
word," he observes. Building on the previous year's experience, participants this fall had electronic access to course materials, including an overview of the general manager's job, a resource site with hundreds of contributions from last year's discussions organized... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
restorative justice project sponsored in part by the Carter Center.) Pressing on, Langford asks if any of the students remember the Meth Project campaign. There’s a good chance they do, given that it... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 20 Feb 2017
- News
MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. For voters between the ages of 18 and 29, the picture was even worse, with a 40 percent turnout. Less than 20 percent of Americans have faith in the democratic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
actually going to a physical locale. "A lot of our MBAs are taking a good shot at the entry barriers set up by establishments that have spent twenty years and a lot of money building brand equity in retail locations," he notes. As... View Details
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
learning in the United States, they believed Pakistan—with 23 million of its school-age children not in classes and a chronic shortage of teachers—would embrace the new educational approach and that the poorest communities might reap the largest benefits. Teach the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Anaïs Nin, Richard Wright Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs think Downton Abbey meets Call My Agent. -A family movie about the world of dreams, set on Earth and on a distant magical planet inhabited View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
called time between balls and play. It's basically the time of game divided by the number of balls that are in play. And that number's gone up even more dramatically than that 25 minute number that I told you about because it not only... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
there, but only one to two percent of startups end up getting funded by venture capital. There was a 2012 study done by a Harvard professor who pointed out that 75 percent of venture backed startups fail or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Webb Chappell When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. Before coming to HBS, I sold them to my mother, who had... View Details