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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has guided her work as an entrepreneur... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
A Tough Assignment
staff of thirty and continues to build and improve on its 70-acre base camp in Ashby, Massachusetts. The challenge, however, is ongoing. “I work longer days than in my lawyer days,” said O’Neill, who has... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
packaging. Resource Efficiency. In 2004, Grolsch had a beer-to-water ratio of 1:5.5, indicating a high water intensity of beer production. By 2022 they had gotten that ratio down to 1:3.8 and are continuing to View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
will attempt to determine how clubs should define themselves to compete in the 21st century. The committee will undertake a marketing analysis in conjunction with a group of clubs, the goal being to create workable models for improving... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
concerned about sovereignty. The solution was to establish a buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw a boundary line in the sand. The third dimension challenges the basic... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous improvement, organizational redesign, population health management, precision medicine,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Two Decades of Social Progress
improve institutions dedicated to creating social value. The initiative's impact on the School has been profound. HBS faculty have written nearly 1,000 cases, articles, and books on social enterprise since the initiative's inception, and... View Details
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Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
students develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement transformational change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
next months, we refined the idea and worked towards a prototype by continuing to talk with medical professionals throughout Boston. We also met with engineers at MIT to improve the technical aspects,... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
forced me to work hard to develop ways to support my proposition, which ultimately they came to see as reasonable, if not obvious in retrospect. Since that time, my research has continued to investigate how group dynamics affect an... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
In this issue of the Bulletin, our focus is on HBS’s “intellectual ambition.” Since its founding in 1908, the School has been committed to creating and disseminating intellectual capital that will help define, strengthen, and improve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Going Forward
to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Relations Gets a New Director
outreach in three ways: continuing to expand lifelong learning programs, such as The Entrepreneur’s Tool Kit and Charting Your Course: Discovering Working Options, aimed specifically at HBS alumni; improving... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
in the School's intellectual agenda. I urge you to make plans now for the next Global Alumni Conference in Chicago on June 17Ð19, 1998, which will focus on entrepreneurship, a topic of great interest to us all. As we reach the end of another academic year, I reflect... View Details
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 14 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)
Harvard Business School. Here, Llano could continue to grow as a leader able to make an impact across sectors. Setting and Resetting the Target One goal Llano set for herself upon entering business school was to work in the U.S. over the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
command? Or for business? For years, W. Edwards Deming, the father of modern continuous quality improvement, had trouble convincing U.S. (as opposed to Japanese) auto manufacturers to implement the keys to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
HBS. The first time I was rejected and HBS did not even call me for an interview. Had I not been patient, I would not have had the privilege to live such a great experience. The second time I applied, I reflected a lot about the reasons I was rejected and I tried to... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs previously ignored.” Leger is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers