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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
of risk. It emphasizes practical strategies for understanding and managing these hazards of new ventures in light of recent research. Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Bain, consumers—perhaps wary of greenwashing in the notoriously opaque industry—have thus far not discerned the difference between the sustainability of the two methods of production. With Aether, Hagemann hopes to change that. Convincing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
today's global economy, knowledge and other resources critical to innovation may lie far outside a company's home territory. This distance makes it harder to obtain and integrate these resources, eating away at a firm's competitive edge.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
participants were far less concrete than this. "If there was one moment or one session that sticks out to me, it's the one that was led by Frances Frei," says Jernigan of KIPP Metro Atlanta. "Her lecture really challenged us with the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
amazed that we've come so far so fast," says Associate Professor David M. Upton, who has spearheaded the latest initiative with the strategic input of Clark and many others on the faculty, the services of a legion of IT professionals, and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought him here, View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
literally in the Toronto phone book there's eight of them, and, like, my uncle, my uncle, my aunt, my cousin. So, thank you. The thing-- I'm learning to be a dad, so it's far from a done deal where I've gotten, like, here you go, this is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
home," 36 percent were actually working parttime, and another 12 percent worked on contracted projects. Of those who had left the workforce but planned to return, 61 percent said they were seeking nontraditional business careers and had View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Google, and venture capitalists Ann and John (MBA 1976) Doerr. Technology and a powerful mission ensure that Khan Academy’s impact far exceeds its small size. More than 10 million students a month access the site, content is offered in 36... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
but realized after college that such a turnabout was unlikely. “When you’re going blind, there’s plenty of denial. But you’ve ultimately got to get comfortable with it and deal with it.” Today, Gibbons has gone far beyond mere... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
through conservation.” View gift membership possibilities. Previous Next Capitalize on the network Ray Yang (MBA 2003) President, HBS Association of Beijing “The most memorable Club experience so far is the first cocktail party I put... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
ones who could, had left them. And they were left with all of the smaller, far less profitable business. The woman who owned it, her husband was a founder of it. He was a mortician and it was, I think, the oldest African American business... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
medicine. In 2000, Platanus opened the Yoga Urban Clinic. They logged 47 visitors on opening day, many of them supportive friends and family. Day two: 17 patients. Even as the numbers sank far below their break-even goal of 60, the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
South Sudan. After they were married in 2014, they found themselves increasingly spending more time apart—with Michael traveling frequently from San Francisco to East Africa and then to Cuba. It felt like a crossroads. “I woke up one day and had this feeling that, one,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
guy, one idiot—that's me—and millions of earthworms," he explains. Romantic notions of the simple life disappear during a visit to Wolf Creek Farm, which encompasses 1,600 acres of land and over 600 head of cattle at the edge of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. "This... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
dangerous place on the planet. It’s pitch-black, trucks are driving around, and there’s the danger of getting sucked into an intake, or blown over the side by a jet blast, or having your cranium squashed by a propeller. But that’s far... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
adjourns at 11:25 p.m., the auditorium is nearly empty. This stage is a far cry from the one Cognetti inhabited at Treasury, serving as senior advisor to Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard. From 2009 to 2012, Cognetti... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
consider,” she adds. Sucher’s book builds on 18 years of teaching the EC course The Moral Leader. Somewhere along that journey she arrived at an important framing: The opposite of moral leadership is not immoral leadership, she says. “It’s when you could have... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
provide good information. Sites have to provide robust online experiences if they want to create strong bonds and real relationships with their customers, he adds. The Question: So far LS has signed on mid-size businesses that generate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
ethical standards.” Indian dental clinics, where size is measured in the unit of chairs, had much smaller overhead, with a specialist’s time by far the most expensive element. For that reason—perhaps along with advertising restrictions... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg