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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the demand curve over a fixed number... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
of the owner, who is asked by his father to take over the business. An example: You are working on the docks as a 28-year-old in Worcester, Massachusetts, and your father asks you to stop work for a moment so he can talk with you. He tells you that the View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
care facilities in Tanzania. The country was chosen because Mutasingwa was established there, the needs were great, and government ministers wanted to find a solution. The goal is to expand to 100 of the country’s 6,000 public primary... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
high school girls in the area. The goal was to help them become first-generation college graduates and, perhaps more important, to believe that they had the ability and the smarts to get there. What started as one woman hoping to mentor a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
with significant rewards," says Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), which coordinates the fellowship program. Childress, herself a former fellow who worked with the Boys and Girls Club of Boston, explains, "One... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
arts programming. To boost fundraising for the SPNM program, Panoff says the club has established the F. Steele III and Patricia H. Blackall Scholarship—named for the late F. Steele Blackall (MBA 1949), a club member who played a key role in establishing the SPNM... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
way. That was fairly predictable. The goal is to break through those stereotypes to establish a nuanced understanding of what makes an MBA or a scientist tick. How does the course accomplish that? We begin by going into some depth as to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin (MBA 1982), who leads HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
administrators together for lively presentations by colleagues and a panel discussion on “The Market for Management Ideas,” moderated by Walter Kiechel (MBA '76/JD '77), senior vice president and executive director of HBS Publishing. Presentation topics ranged from... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Park City before we manufacture. Having that added measure of control is huge. Is control an elusive goal in such a fast-growing company? Being in a growing company can be uncomfortable sometimes, because everything changes so fast. What... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada’s office in Colombo Fort, the city’s central business district. A somewhat hazardous stroll along broken sidewalks, ducking in and out of traffic, took us past the presidential palace, majestic colonial-era buildings, and,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
with her family to watch Ralph Bellamy in Man Against Crime. After graduating from Radcliffe, it seemed logical that she would go on to law school. First, however, she enrolled in the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a little bit more thoughtful. So when I began, it was just a single Excel page tracking how long I was running for, and how much I was sleeping, and a couple other things related to overall wellness. And it was really just a way to have some small View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details