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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagining a world where I wasn't running this business that we had started, and where I couldn't necessarily control if it was going to be successful or not, that was really helpful to experience that versus just theoretically understanding it and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
writing in one of three lanes: the measures of a just political economy; the role of firms; and the roles of institutions and governments. The result is a wholly original and urgent new benchmark for the next stage of our democracy.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
pull out of Afghanistan,” he says. “But you can’t erase the fact that in the past decade, one-third of the country has learned to read and write and has experienced the freedom of using a phone, along with Twitter, Facebook, music, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
a book about what Americans do best — founding and building new businesses," writes Tedlow, the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. "It is about men who broke old rules and made new ones, who built new worlds, who were... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
And now they're feeling like they are doing better and better in those interview processes. And some of them are writing to us telling them that they got a job. I mean, again, correlation there, we'll never fully know but part of it is,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
writing a screenplay, something I never would have had time for if I was traveling like I did before the pandemic. You have to be able to reinvent yourself. Darwin said it’s not the strongest who survive but those who are most able to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Private industry seems to be redoubling efforts to invest in the country, after writing it off as impossible for some time. Cargill, for example, is working with smallholder farmers and investing in a plant to produce sweeteners from... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
side of the individual. Reading short stories helps me in writing cases. I also plan to read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. What format do you use for reading? I’ll likely read Carver in hard copy and Franzen on my iPad. Hard copy has a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
management.” — HBS professor Tom Eisenmann “One of the amazing and enduring characteristics of Howard over the years has been his incredible energy level, and his determination to make a difference in his teaching, in writing his many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
I think we can deliver to students. Felix Oberholzer-Gee on introducing empathy into the curriculum How do you maintain curricular innovation? FO: Every year we write 250 cases, and those cases are entrepreneurial, bottom-up ways in which... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
career, I asked Wilson what he hopes will live on after he’s gone. His response was characteristically low-key. BW: I would always think that I’ll just disappear into history the way everybody else does. Twenty years from now I’ll be forgotten. But I used to really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
vanishingly small. “If the people writing the checks are more reflective of the population, the people receiving the checks will become more representative of the population.” —Hayley Barna (MBA 2010), general partner, First Round Capital... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
the best person to lead us out of this." And I think in the span of maybe 15 days or 30 days or two months during that time period, you know, I started to feel renewal and a sense that I could—you know, working with a great team—get us through it, right? And, and I... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
In 1943 John H. Johnson sent a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt inviting her to write for Negro Digest, a fledgling magazine that he had recently founded with a $500 loan. The First Lady politely replied that she was too busy at the time.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
enough that I wanted out.” Since selling the team in 2001, Tierney now focuses his interest in soccer on the men's league that he plays in on weekends in Darien and on America SCORES, a nonprofit that uses soccer as a springboard to teach creative View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
great-grandfather. Macridis sat in on meetings with the SYRIZA government early in 2015 and saw the writing on the wall. “I found them unrealistic and hostile to what for-profit institutions need,” he says. Chryssafidis, one of the 10... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint