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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Time Inc. as president of digital operations in 2016, the internet cheered. With stints at AOL and PopSugar, Wong was a respected veteran of the young digital media industry, and her hire signaled the company’s commitment to a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
Growth Market: Afghan saffron has also attracted the attention of MBA classmates Ben Bines, Kimberly Jung, KinYan Chew, and Emily Miller (all HBS 2015), who founded Rumi Spice with a mission similar to Earth2Globe’s. (©Majid Saeedi/Thinkstock) Hay-scented saffron is... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental effects and advises against this now-common tactic for workforce... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Above: Dowling at home in New York City: “There’s no one model for being a working parent.” Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) had built a successful career in leadership development and executive coaching at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the 2000s, but there was one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
Juan Perón served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, then again from 1973 to 1974. Photo credit: Keystone/Getty Images Rafael Di Tella Photo credit: Neal Hamburg Rafael Di Tella Photo credit: Neal Hamburg Vincent Pons Photo credit: Russ Campbell Vincent Pons... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational companies and then returned to their... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Illustration by Noah MacMillan Illustration by Noah MacMillan The first challenge of Boda Borg is describing it. The Swedish company—headed by president and CEO David Spigner (MBA 1987) and imported to the United States by Chad Ellis (MBA 1998)—offers indoor... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
© Alexandra Hootnick/zumapress.com The United States needs to find a “rational middle” ground on the topic of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, says Professor Michael Porter. In a report released this summer, America’s Unconventional Energy Opportunity, Porter and his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and mentioned ESG (environmental, social,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
NETWORK SOLUTIONS In 2012, Richard Kane (MBA 1968) and Bruce Bockmann (MBA 1967) sat in the audience at New York’s Lincoln Center as Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin presented findings from the School’s U.S. Competiveness Project. There was one challenge facing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women of color. In their new book, Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer survey to understand how people... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000 doctors by 2025. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
The HourlyNerd origin story could become an HBS legend: The rapidly growing startup, which connects graduates from top MBA programs with businesses that need project-based consulting, began as a FIELD 3 project—one that fellow HBS classmates doomed to failure. In FIELD... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a speed-dating company when his... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
Reaching Out The first annual HBS Latino Alumni Association Southern Dinner, held in Dallas last fall, was more than a social occasion for outgoing club president Al Suarez (MBA 2005) and event organizer Eric Calderon (MBA 2013)—it was also a successful trial of the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Governor of Kaduna State Malam Nasir AHMAD El-Rufai (left) and Mira Mehta (right) meet with Nigerian government officials (photo courtesy of Tomato Jos) Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) didn’t set out to become a farmer in northern Nigeria, but today, the company she cofounded,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more than $127 billion invested... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
Mitch Tuchman and Scott Puritz (photo by Kim Marshall) Mitch Tuchman (MBA 1982) was a successful software entrepreneur in the exuberant 1990s when his first son, Jack, was born. A year later, Tuchman’s life changed: He and his wife learned that Jack suffered from... View Details