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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
engulfed by the din of surrounding students, she describes the personal nature of the work and the effort to bring more of a sustainability lens to investments in AUC’s endowment. “Education changed the course of my life—it’s something my mother fought dearly for, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Chili recipes
Traditional Texas Recipe [winner] by Matt Ashbaugh (MBA 2014) Ingredients Sweet/fresh chilies: 3 whole New Mexico chilies, stems and seeds removed Hot chilies: 3 Arbol chilies, stems and seeds removed... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships
Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting partnerships to provide electricity to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
influence by controlling for those “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies. The findings show that social influence accounts for more than 25 percent of all mobile app adoptions. The research also highlights an important risk: If homophily is not View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces
or even two steps removed from the artists themselves,” says Evans. “At VIA, we work directly with artists, meeting as a group to learn, discuss, and vote on which projects we will support.” Since she launched VIA in 2013 with cofounder... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to restore the purchase option. It was... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and making it fair, but it was 1974I, apparently, that removed the biggest obstacle to smooth, somewhat undisruptive playing of the game: they used an agreed-upon bingo phrase rather than shouting out “bingo” itself. If you got “bingo,”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
Happy Because He’s Blind
most valuable lesson: Life without obstacles removes opportunities for growth,” he said. “We have to choose to deliberately frame our perception, or we allow the circumstances of life to determine our happiness.” Now a finance executive... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Cronin... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
well-regulated reserve with natural geographic defenses. Kent has been up close with the animals during the relocation and other wildlife management efforts: “It’s a very raw experience to be close with a large wild animal. Our lives are often very View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
each year because they don’t have access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates, only 10 percent of the need for organ transplantation is being met. But the issue isn’t a supply of organs; rather, it's the useful lifespan of an organ... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was killed in combat in Panama as he participated in Operation Just Cause, which was set to remove Manuel Noriega from power. Gibbs was 22 years old and just months away from becoming a dad to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
students at the student-organized Leadership and Ethics Forum last March. Under Reich's review was a labor inspector's ruling that a batboy for the minor-league Savannah Cardinals be removed from his dream job because of laws prohibiting... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and pushing costs out of the reach of millions. Herzlinger outlines a plan for a consumer-driven system that puts insurance money in the hands of patients, removes the middleman in the doctor-patient relationship, and gives employers cost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
carefully removes decades-old tape from the corners of photos from the United Fruit Company collection. Its 75 albums with 10,400 photos provide a vivid visual history of the company’s early 20th-century operations in the Caribbean,... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
redefine itself in modern times based on its own values and beliefs. In the current crisis, Allawi sees the politicization of Islam and rejection of the modern world as its possible undoing because both remove the possibility of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
Sue is a very versatile 67-million-year-old tyrant lizard king — or Tyrannosaurus rex, as most of us know her. Her two hundred bones have been carefully assembled in the main entrance of Chicago's Field Museum in a manner so that each one can be View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
servant leadership is the only leadership model that works over the long run. Simply put, servant leadership demands that a leader place the mission’s goals and values first, the team and its individuals second, and the leader’s own welfare a distant third. After all,... View Details