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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the immersion. (photo by Shikhar... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my mind today,” says Taylor.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
The School's inaugural group of Service Leadership Fellows gathered for a Class Day breakfast celebration. For students interested in working in social enterprises after graduation, the new program matches them with nonprofit and governmental entities and provides... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
of work in their lives. And Richard Whiteley observes that corporations, too, are seeing things differently. "Previous activities that have been intended to create organizational vision and purpose have indeed formed the foundation for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
mission statements to the contrary, many deans and recruiters complain that MBAs don’t understand the practice of leadership or have sufficient awareness of their impact on others. Reflecting on these findings, Garvin concluded, “Business as usual isn’t good enough.”... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
the Tao Shing Pee Education Foundation (TSPEF), and featured an online forum with two HBS faculty members, an in-person conference of panel discussions, and a formal evening celebration called the Crimson Ball. “The annual... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
we did,” says Stamps, who holds a BS and an MS in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech. Since passing the Summit torch to his partners in 2001, Stamps has focused his considerable energy on the family foundation that he and his wife,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
a flight to abstractions, resulting in few business-specific decision criteria for Enron executives. Along the way Enron lost track of its ideals. This loss of ideals reveals the most important lessons of the Enron story — that financial success without an ethical... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
ALS is a good investment for them, the market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do in decades.” Using a prize model, Prize4Life essentially “pays for results,” says Kremer’s friend, classmate, and board member... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1974), president, Consulting Resources Corporation “The foundation for “making it work” has been setting up priorities and sticking to them. Simply knowing that work is not number one has made decision making much clearer, if not always... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
spirit forward for the next 50 years.” For more information, visit the AASU50 webpage. A Lively Discussion in Toronto The HBS Club of Toronto partnered with the Young Presidents Organization (Maple Leaf Chapter) last month to present a dinner and case discussion event... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
profitability analysis (strategic variances), and the risk-exposure calculator (a tool for analyzing strategic risk). Simons begins his book by establishing foundations for implementing strategy, including identifying organizational... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
variety of private, nonprofit, and governmental sources. Foundations are fickle, so always keep more than a few irons in the fundraising fire. Africa Business Conference. Building the African Dream: Defining a New Approach to Success... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
period, there was a very strong national economic strategy around using science to drive economic growth. We created the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, among others, and the government invested... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
many changes are taking place in the world, business education itself has been challenged to raise its game. We have to be innovative. We must have the courage to try new things, because that’s the only way we can honor the legacy of the School and create a View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
unfortunately fail. The Harvard Business School MBA is outstanding and is an excellent foundation for further training by executive mentors in the business world. Let other business schools change their curricula, but let’s leave HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student clubs, MBAs organize gatherings... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie