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- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
2007 Max Wessel, MBA 2011 Jeffrey Wheeler, MBA 2014 Derek White Bryan Wynn, MBA 2014 Andrei Yarmak, MBA 2012 Rie Yano, MBA 2010 Zack Zackrison, MBA 2011 Damian Zajac, MBA 2011 Lin Zhao, MBA 2013 Jie Zheng, MBA 2010 Ying Zhou, MBA 2013... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods. “Generally speaking, Detroit is a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the rapidly growing world of online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an estimated 40 million new records and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jul 2025
- News
Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs
Every day, more than one million hawkers and other food and beverage vendors across Southeast Asia use the Grab delivery service to operate their small businesses—and grow them for the future—with a little help from Grab’s new AI Merchant Assistant. Via the company’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), pictured In January, 50 HBS MBA students and 200 alumni and other business leaders gathered to discuss the business of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the course of four days, the hybrid global cohort analyzed cases, quizzed sector experts,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
the interviewee and the viewer,” says Page. A trip to the Bay Area in April captured the concepting phase, and a second trip to Peru in May, the prototyping phase. On this final trip, the video crew carried only a GoPro and a handheld... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Talk to Tony O. Elumelu (AMP 166, 2004) for more than a few minutes and you are sure to hear about “Africapitalism.” The Nigerian businessman and philanthropist coined the term in 2010 to describe the investment strategy that has shaped his career and will, he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
“In the century ahead, our capabilities in digital are going to be critical for all aspects of what the School does.” —Professor Karim Lakhani Digital Task Force Chair “In the century ahead, our capabilities in digital are going to be critical for all aspects of what... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students who traveled to Argentina and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational opportunities not available to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
“Today is a pretty exciting day here,” Safe Passage Project executive director Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) says as soon as he picks up the phone in late October 2019. “As of today, we are representing 1,001 children who the US government is actively trying to deport.”... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
Photos by Micha Loubaton Photos by Micha Loubaton Just a decade ago, executive assessment was something CEOs whispered about. There was a real reluctance among business leaders to admit when they didn’t have all the answers. That’s finally changing, says Shirley... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
Above: Hulme on the rooftop of Google’s London offices (photo by Jon Enoch) What the design-thinking approach at IDEO taught me is that perfection is the enemy of progress. Great entrepreneurs realize that any business is a series of unanswered questions, and they... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Just south of Washington, DC, on the banks of the Potomac River, sits the Crow’s Nest, a rural 6,000-acre peninsula named for a three-masted schooner, The Crow, which anchored on its shores in the 1700s. Today, much of this land is covered with same towering hardwood... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) (Courtesy S’Well Bottle) Ollie Wilson (MBA 2017) (Courtesy Ollie Wilson) Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of S’well reusable water bottles, beloved by everyone from the Kardashians to TED Conference attendees. HBS student Ollie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Photos by Benoit Cortet Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up Springfield, Ohio, a farming community where 4-H was founded, and many of his classmates were in FFA, the Future Farmers of America. Yet Tiller’s education in agriculture and energy—and the ways in which the... View Details