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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
students and graduates that has grown sharply over the decades. Last year, more than 15 percent of all elective credits in the MBA Program were earned in the School's courses on entrepreneurship. Moreover, in recent surveys, over half of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
who earned a BS in engineering at MIT, Bai is using her social channels to create a new supply chain for high quality PPE. “You really have to look into the bacterial filtration, particle filtration, fluid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
them is the ability to multitask. However, of all the wonderful qualities a woman may possess, there is one key requirement for her career to advance: Recognition. We must learn to advocate for ourselves effectively, with confidence,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
activity for HBS. We've always done quite well relying on our alumni network. But that doesn't mean we can't do better or find more people with the leadership qualities we seek," she observes. One good reason for conducting more... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lending rates and the program’s ultimate benefit, since many of the women had not been able to substantially grow their food and crafts businesses or greatly improve their quality of life over the years. Now, with open access to Carlos... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter believes, can provide incentives for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
reforming the judiciary, and cracking the mysteries of forest and climate interaction. And then there are my Liberian friends outside of work. Many of them are young people who, while earning $100 or $200 a month, take care of their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
it happens), they often see dollar signs first and foremost. Salaries are soaring - even a journeyman player can earn in a few seasons what the average fan makes in a lifetime - and ever-increasing revenues are required to fund expanding... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered
Professor of Business Administration, Kennedy established a reputation as an exceptional teacher. Dean Kim B. Clark commented, “During his two decades on the faculty, Tom Kennedy played an influential role in an institution that prides itself on the high View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inherent contradictions among its various units. Similarly, consider the Wilson Company's involvement in meatpacking, sporting goods, and pharmaceuticals. That mélange earned the company the nickname 'Meatball, Golf Ball, and Goof Ball.'... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Radcliffe student, to Cambridge, where he enrolled at Harvard College. After attending HBS and earning a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota, Goldberg joined the HBS faculty in 1955. In 1957, he and HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
for IM, voice, and video calls. I always carry my cellphone. What qualities do you think leaders today need? Leaders need to be courageous and fearless. They need to be fast because the time they have to get things done is shrinking. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
start at the HIL, are addressing critical issues at the intersection of business and society—from education to health care to climate change. The startups highlighted below are just a sampling of the quantity and quality of ideas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities —... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
and then returned to Turkey, where his enormous impact in business is matched by his commitment to improving access to quality education. One of Turkey's most successful business leaders, Özyeğin is a self-made man. After View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
friend persuaded him to apply to HBS, where he arrived in the fall of 1966, newly married and with a razor-thin bank account. “When the oilman came to the door with the bill after filling the tank, we’d hide in the closet,” he recalls. Demonstrating the mental... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
are probably a dozen different things that I work hard on that have a direct impact on young people and the quality of their lives. What are some of the other issues you're involved in? I fight for consumer and business issues. I'm always... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young