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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
four-year colleges.” Raised in a low-income community in southern New Jersey, Huebner experienced firsthand the difference in her public school college preparation with that of her fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. “Had... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
magazines than Time cofounder Henry R. Luce. In 2004 alone, she introduced four new publications, including a revitalized version of Life magazine, which is now distributed on weekends in leading U.S. newspapers. In 1991, she was named... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
“By wrestling with the case issues together, we create new perspectives and a sense of community.” The seminar will mark its 60th iteration January 12–15, 2020. The faculty team—which includes Bell and Forest Reinhardt, the John D. Black... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
fashion, arts and culture, and business and finance. It features guides to each of the continent’s 54 nations, where you can find everything from breaking news to museum guides, as well as content from such partners as the Council on... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Ministry of Health to test new policies to improve infant HIV testing. Similar initiatives are under way in Uganda and Cambodia. We are a fee-for-service nonprofit and have received start-up support from the Echoing View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
transformation officer at the Carlyle Group, began work to put all those influencers together in what they called Culture Shifting Weekends, held annually in Silicon Valley and New York City. The idea was to celebrate Culture Shifters and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
professional and personal involvement as they embark on their post-MBA careers. Aaron Rudenstine (MBA ’09) New York, NY Curbing Corruption I highly commend the editor for publishing “Show Me the Money” and “M.I.A. Boards” in the June... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded the range of business dealings beyond hometown connections. More... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of the communities View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
concern was that if they gave the senior partners time off, it would negatively affect the business, because customers were used to only dealing with the senior partners, and so senior partners wouldn't want to give up sole custody of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
adjustment for older faculty who had taught only in a single-sex classroom. "One senior professor was always hesitant to call on me until I spoke to him about it," says Wilkinson. "We got that settled." It was a new experience for many of... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Morrell: It was Brady's job to take four SEALs on his helicopter, drop them off at a spot overlooking the Korengal Valley, and stick around till they found a good place to hide. And he did that, and then headed back as the sun began to rise. Hours later, he was awoken... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
doctoral degree. “It was made clear that choosing academia requires a great deal of perseverance,” she comments. “It’s a long and difficult transition from being a consumer to a producer of knowledge, but it’s also stimulating and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
foreseen that the insights and problem-solving strategies they would gain would soon help them deal with the profound challenges posed by the pandemic. “The timing of the Leading People course I took in October 2019 was particularly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. I had an opportunity to speak with Catherine D’Amato, GBFB’s CEO, and I was incredibly impressed with the organization’s vision for the future. It... View Details