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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
and strict quarantine measures, drawing on the city-state’s previous experience with pandemics, including SARS, H1N1, MERS, and Zika. Then in March 2020, Singapore deployed the world’s first Bluetooth-based contact-tracing system,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fishermen but also with local, state, and federal regulators. Satisfying them proved to be a Kafkaesque experience that entailed spending a large chunk of the startup’s capital on a hydroacoustic system to monitor the local fish... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, about four years after HBS, when I was reflecting on a major career decision point. While the book is rich with insights, two big concepts continue to shape me today. First is the idea that two people can View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Yes, I was a bit of a curiosity, but I’ve always gone a bit off the beaten track, and having that be my first experience of the United States gave a very different perspective. You hear about and understand race issues very quickly.”... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
the normal academic method of doing research that I will never do that again," says Christensen. "Every time I do research I am going to do crowdsourcing from our alumni." The project drew on the experience and input of alumni from 14... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
this work as part of the World Health Organization.” You were Hong Kong’s health director during the 2003 SARS outbreak. What did you learn from that experience? The SARS experience showed that decisive national and international action,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
surprising to Gordon. For the past year, she’s been helping build out this Havana-based travel and consulting business with her husband and brother-in-law and is reliant on a rising network of Cuban entrepreneurs to deliver deep, curated travel View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
who've emerged as leaders in education reform at a time when charters have experienced rapid growth and decidedly mixed results. Together, they form a chorus: The charter school movement still has great promise. But it will take better... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
"welcome members of new subdisciplines" without losing its focus. They credit McArthur with facilitating many of the important changes within the unit during the 1980s and 1990s. A Leader Like Ike From the first chapter of The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Macquarie into his native Australia's premier merchant bank and in June won wide acclaim for leading the winning consortium to privatize Sydney's airport. Still other classmates have created value in ways not measured in earnings per share. Paula Duffy took her... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
organized by the school to go to Silicon Valley. Tom Eisenmann, who had been our entrepreneurship professor, was one of the leaders of that. And both Michelle and I ended up on that trip. It was a really interesting time because it was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
different leaders and investors taking positions in high-risk, untested, brand-new high-tech firms. Morrell: That appetite for risk has remained a dominant characteristic of modern Silicon Valley, which has also developed a seeming lack... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
customer experience and low cost? In this book, strategy and operations experts Siggelkow and Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened its original mandate, is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique and transformational event. Indeed, the School had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on political campaigns that promise a different approach to foreign and domestic policy. As formative as those experiences were in establishing her sense of justice and political engagement, however, the linchpin is probably a very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
from five to ten years. We also look for a balance in ages and generations. We have partners here at Accel who are still active in their 60s, 50s, 40s, and 30s, as well as a couple of people in their late 20s. The balance between age and View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
director, and emeritus professor at Swarthmore College, with more than thirty years of experience in the theater. Together, they developed the “artful making” concept to encourage managers in today’s knowledge–based, project–focused... View Details