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- 26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty
positive change to South Africa. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start,” he says. “Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the newly designed Alumni Web site (www.alumni.hbs.edu), which was launched earlier this summer. In addition, a subset of the committee worked with the School to develop an in-depth, informative, and lively presentation about the current... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
with chronic diseases or disabilities who are frequently lost among the cracks of our present fragmented system. How has the pandemic changed the health care sector? We have seen a much broader acceptance of telemedicine and changes in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
so many, I thought practicing medicine would be similar to what I saw on Scrubs or Grey’s Anatomy, where you’re presented with an immense diversity of medical problems to solve through brand-new, exciting, innovative procedures. But the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
the frames you have seen. They present this as a service but it’s also very valuable data, because they can link offline and online, and they know that you were in the store on a particular day and what frames you saw, and they can follow... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
their careers in nonprofits. We all have to work harder to eliminate these barriers. The nonprofit sector presents an outstanding opportunity for talented managers and consultants to put their skills to work for a wide range of worthy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
economic incentive to change their behavior. And human beings have proved to be habitually less likely to spend money in the present to gain long-term savings down the road — precisely what much of environmental retrofitting requires.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
unique. In the hybrid world, there is an expectation that those who are physically present have an advantage, and those who are remote will not feel as strong a connection. That has not been true for our students, and it is because of the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Ruback, Baker Foundation Professor, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus Anthem Press Private Equity is an advanced corporate finance book that integrates a range of topics from a private equity investor’s perspective. The book View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
three days, though.’ Sometimes, confusion—even being shaken to one’s roots—can be a good thing.” Reasonable expectations: “In baseball, the best hitters average .330 or .370. You don’t have to bat a thousand to stand out, to be good at something.” Managed Risk... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
ago. We’re also seeing more Chinese students applying to our high schools. These young scholars are often China’s best and brightest, and they are bringing back ideas and outlooks that present challenges to the current government, which... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
useful research project could focus on the role of venture capital in financing and nurturing high potential ventures in the Valley. Presently staffed with a director and a full-time senior researcher, the Center will provide... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
analyses. Afternoon sessions included a presentation by HBS professor Clayton Christensen on disruptive technologies in health care; a panel, moderated by HBS professor Gary Pisano, on individually tailored health care; and a talk by Eric... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
much positional power, but I can present a solution and rally people around it,” he says. “By being in government, I basically get to sit at the table and make a case.” It’s not glamorous. And it’s not fast. By most estimates,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
moderators and discussants. The panels examined aspects of education, the environment, finance and philanthropy, health care, international development, public policy, and technology. A “Pitch for Change” competition gave participants a chance to View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
the opening and closing venue – with morning remarks by Dean Jay Light and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, and a late-afternoon birthday party. In between came a campus-wide case discussion on the future of HBS and presentations by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
education expenses and home purchases for a million new IDA holders. But even if that funding comes through - no easy task, given Washington's post-September 11 spending priorities - convincing financial institutions that low-income savers View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
were given 36 hours to analyze a case about how a mid-tier oil and gas company should respond to federal mandates requiring ethanol-blended gasoline. Each team presented its conclusions to, and was questioned by, a panel of executives... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
provide solutions to the present problems. We dealt with this in the class of 2009 and we all are stronger and better and just had our 10 year reunion and loved seeing one another. So you will be OK. But I would say use this opportunity... View Details