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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
track its effectiveness and set benchmarks for improvement. "Nonprofits are so important in our society," she said. "They fulfill essential purposes. But they lack the market mechanisms of corporations where, if a board falls asleep at... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
randomized control studies started to emerge that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from a time of massive pain. When you look back broadly at the last few decades, what were some of the key factors in China’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
York Times Company, for example)-and also the most vulnerable (witness Canada's Steinberg's grocery store chain, which succumbed to family infighting). Howard H. Stevenson, HBS's Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and an expert in View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last two months in readiness to execute aerial delivery of emergency... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
lack of market linkages are only a few of the problems. The story of women is an economic story. Investing in women creates a safer, prosperous, and more stable world, which is in everyone’s best interest.” Notes Lemmon, who has cowritten... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. What do you think about the issue of flexible work hours?... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel agents and some related View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
enterprise, entrepreneurship, entertainment and media, and emerging markets.) Here’s a sampling of what a few students from the MBA and Doctoral Programs will be doing. Paige Sopcic (MBA 2018) Hometown: Roscoe, Illinois Destination: GE... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood in south São Paulo. "Her name... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
that there might just be too many activities available and too much to do, thus decreasing the serendipity of chance social encounters among residents as they crisscross the community’s lush green grounds. Even so, Marshall, a marketing... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
technology that will take a long time to develop, the financing challenges that come with that, and a firmly established market status quo. The risks, he says, are worth it. "When people feel like they are part of a grand cause, they stay... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
timescales not just of days and weeks but of decades—something that can’t be done with gusting winds and fickle sunshine. “We know how much power we’re going to get out of this for the next 40 years,” Smith says. The potential market for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
developing world as well. With HBS associate professor Mukti Khaire and doctoral student Alexandra Feldberg, McGinn is looking at a 30-year period of change in India driven, in part, by self-employed women entering into the country's View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, this book takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details