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- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Clubs News Clubs News Harvard Business School is in the midst of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU50), with a wide range of events and activities underway to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
that type of work.” But he wasn’t comfortable with the way that particular developer was doing it. “I thought I could do it in a way that I could sleep at night,” he says. So he founded Pioneer Group in 1997. The firm started out doing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a village one day when he found an abandoned baby on the road.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
about helping executives to get beyond these misconceptions by opening their eyes to new vistas." e-Leadership is also available as an electronic version that can be downloaded and customized at the reader's discretion. More information on the electronic version can be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Authority.) Eighteen months after the near-miss deal, after an eruption of hostilities, the two leaders found their political fortunes reversed. Sharon's poll numbers were way down (due to suicide bombers and insecurity inside Israel)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively — a consistent result across very different organizational... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
just need to have the founding fathers rapping. It's the idea that the novel combination of two existing ideas can change the world. Talk about how that relates to the success of Hamilton. [MUSIC] Eric: I think we get a little bit lost in... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
factors, we found that a plan with narrow physician and hospital networks was 16% cheaper than a plan with broad networks for both, and that narrowing the breadth of just one type of network was associated with a 6%–9% decrease in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and similar trends are not found in institutions constrained from agglomerating (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
pipelines, toll roads, and mines. The key is to understand for which assets and in which settings the benefits are likely to be realized. Q: I found your point interesting: Given the high debt-to-total capitalization ratios (typically 70... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
which is pathetic.” But as employment numbers rebound, the shecession highlights more perennial, far-reaching factors than those found in the pandemic’s early months, says Manisha Thakor (MBA 1997). One is the ever-present gender pay gap:... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
experience that I had. Otherwise, you're just an aid tourist and, oftentimes, a draw on those organizations resources. The opportunity I found was setting up a job trading center at one of these IDP camps. While I was there, someone had... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Gates, and Paul Allen, and some of the guys that ended up founding Sun Microsystems and Seagate-- they would rent a room at the Stanford Linear Accelerator to share projects and ideas they were working on. And out of that set of... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
growth. “The problems lie in government and financing.” Ojomo noted that the US Department of Transportation wasn’t established until 1966–long after the nation’s major roadways were built, and more than 60 years after Henry Ford founded... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
curious phenomenon dubbed the Transparency Paradox, he found that watching your employees less closely at work might yield more transparency at your organization. "In a world obsessed with transparency, I'm becoming increasingly obsessed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
shortage of success stories in particular schools and districts," Rivkin says. "The problem is that they tend to get bottled up in individual localities." Since business leaders are often adept at scaling up innovations that work, why not leverage that... View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
businesses to access financing for solar,” Chidalu explains. (01:11) In 2022, Chidalu founded her fintech company Earthbond, with the mission to empower Nigerians and their businesses with affordable financing for clean and reliable... View Details
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Diversity | Employment
Group. Across the University, the Association of Harvard Latinx Faculty and Staff (AHLFS) was founded in 2009, through grassroots efforts by a number of employees here at Harvard University. AHLFS was established to promote, support and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
business? Sarah Ford (MBA 2007)’s experience with Amazon highlights its allure and drawbacks. In 2012, Ford founded Ranch Road Boots, a high-end shoe company inspired by her roots in West Texas and her experience as a Marine Corps... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint