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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA... View Details
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
experience absolutely made me come alive. I spent most of the summer analyzing financials and modeling loans. Then one afternoon, I got a chance to meet the people we were making loans to. A farmer wearing a 'World's Best Dad' T-shirt... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
for the ticket, explaining to his friend: "This man has a business to run, and you are stealing from him." Similarly, during a pro-Reaganomics discussion in his BGIE class, Donelson spoke about the pain his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
Unable to attend this year's Cyberposium because of the impending birth of his first child, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivered the February event's keynote address from Seattle. Appearing on a large video screen in Burden... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
taking paid time off. The researchers’ interviews also revealed a second factor that helped mitigate homesickness among workers assigned to far-flung places: workplace friendships. Workers with colleagues of the same gender and who View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
automating local telephone operation by converting to dial phones, it had to grapple with the business and societal impact of dramatically reducing human interface. A century later, artificial intelligence, big data, View Details
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Ann Chao
For most people, this question draws one’s gaze to the future. It suggests that their lives are just beginning, with countless possibilities ahead. For me, it’s also about reflecting on a life at its closing, because I once spoke this... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
winner of this contest, and it closely resembles the buildings that went into construction in 1925. I keep these drawings on display as a reminder that the institution we inhabit today is the result of a discrete series of choices made... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
in consumers' minds-one they go back to over and over again when they think of department stores. Every Spoke In The Strategy Wheel A very important point of commonality among all of the entrepreneurs-and it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
Panelists agreed that speaking out in the emotional days and weeks following September 11 was difficult. "The communications environment was treacherous," said Raymond Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America. "It wasn't clear what the... View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
work began with one question: How to bring more treatments to the people who need them? After Myra Kraft died in 2011 of ovarian cancer, the Kraft Family Foundation sought to find an answer to this question. They spoke with a number of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
opportunity to elevate the work and ensure we are fostering new streams of inquiry and research into these topics.” Keller notes that while HBS’s research initiatives have been examining key environmental... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
she will help launch a new Business in Global Society (BiGS) Institute. BiGS will serve as a hub and provide support for research in this arena, and ensure that the faculty’s... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
(BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and... View Details
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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
listing in the Career Hub for a Leadership Fellow opportunity at Boston Medical Center. Alastair Bell, MD (HBS MBA 2006), Executive VP of Strategy and COO for BMC Health System, notes, “From our standpoint,... View Details
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Jonathan Evans
philanthropy by connecting people, one by one, to ideas that spoke to them.” Over a period of three years, the organization grew. “We added staff, an office, then merged with DonorsChoose.org. I learned a lot about due diligence View Details