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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
Harvard University. Cosponsored by UNAIDS and the World Economic Forum, the workshops were organized in conjunction with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG), School of Public Health, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
parts that I like most is when Elizabeth Bennet rejects the wealthy Mr. Darcy’s proclamation of love and marriage because he treated her as an inferior. For the 19th century, Jane Austen takes a truly radical approach to economic and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
sending nonprofit leaders from all over the world to HBS. In the last 16 years, HBSASNE has sent 33 local nonprofit leaders to the SPNM program, representing a wide range of social action, from addressing homelessness and improving... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
be. That’s my nature.” Although some inventors will create something and then see if there is a use for it, that wasn’t the case with the Soccket ball: it was created with a specific need in mind. “That’s why it was so important for me to study psychology and View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
open systems that can be leveraged by anyone will thrive over closed, proprietary systems; I think of the United States as an open system in that sense." One of Ranadivé's earliest dreams was to study at MIT, which he learned of through a documentary film on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
those hidden barriers. The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World by Frans Johansson (MBA 2000) (Portfolio) This book is about two simple ideas: Success is far more random than we think, and individuals and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
McCollom Hampton, and Ivan Lansberg go so far as to assert that having a successful family business is the "Emerald City" for most of the world's population-that is, the much sought-after means of assuring security and the promise of View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
workforce, according to a 2017 report by the World Economic Forum.) As with everything she does, Oishi sees the challenge as an opportunity. Doctors are a competitive bunch, she points out. If she were a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
company, Ventro, which provides services for online exchanges. While the gold rush days of the late 1990s may be over, there is still a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among HBS students, faculty, and alumni. “The change in the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called Families Against Rotten Teens (F.A.R.T.), a secret society of grizzled parents whose... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
through 20,000 WhatsApp groups at a cost of approximately 10 cents per child, per year. The company has raised $1 million from institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and the World Economic Forum; venture... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995) was studying economics at Dartmouth in the 1980s when he interviewed for a summer internship at Meredith & Grew, an old-line Boston brokerage and real estate development firm. “If you wanted to say, ‘one of these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the subculture of competitive gaming and its economic potential came fully into view—first in South Korea. The country’s well-developed internet infrastructure had birthed a vibrant gaming community, and with support from the government... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
awards and accolades from the World Economic Forum, the Wall Street Journal, and MIT’s Technology Review. “This is a $170 billion market screaming for a fundamental innovation,” says Evans. “It’s a fantastic... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
what it would mean to feel physically present with anyone from anywhere. It unlocks economic opportunities for people who can’t move to major industry hubs; has the potential to dramatically improve our environmental impact of commuting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
ecosystems around the world had created all [the] billion dollar businesses. Today, over 84 startup ecosystems have created one billion-dollar business. It isn't that the startup movement is globalizing alone, it's that the biggest and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
other real estate investments in the area. That’s an important quirk of the city’s tumultuous economic history. Detroit was long a company town, and then, when there was no one else—not even the city—investing in Detroit, those who did... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly