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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
spread the word about things like street closures. Blackmon, the city’s Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space, says his office had been using Facebook and Twitter to push out available LED light bulbs... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
started as an altruistic concern for his family, however, led to a second career as cofounder of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland, an online database that has helped families around the world document their ancestry and find relatives about... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
informed decisions using data and make the system more resilient, limiting the consequences of bad decisions.” One such effort is the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative across Harvard and View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
accent coaching for non-English speakers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Lakra and I talk about the light bulb moment behind her startup, the economic value of being understood, and the unique powers of immigrants. Courtesy Anada Lakra... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
cohosted by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS, the HBS Alumni Angels of London, and the HBS Club of London. The conversation was led by Jeffrey Rayport, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneur Management Unit at HBS, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Join in the Centennial
join a virtual “Conversation” with HBS faculty members about cutting-edge business topics and be able to read alumni comments online — or post your own. Or learn about the monthly “Virtual Lunch” conference call discussions led by HBS... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
everyone from a Morehouse School of Medicine professor to an entrepreneur offering nonaddictive alternatives for pain relief to Georgia’s public health commissioner. Langford runs the meeting with a light hand, welcoming late arrivals and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
McKenna’s face, or at least the half of it that’s visible above her mask, lights up at the sight of it. It’s been a long journey to this point. She and her family, including husband Joe and two young sons, have just moved up from Atlanta,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
the classroom, but it worked. It led to a great discussion.” Watson says he still has “a lot to learn” about teaching, but after one year in the classroom he definitely has mastered the basics. “When you see the View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Participants enjoyed sessions on topics that ranged from biotechnology to media and entertainment to social enterprise. A panel of six entrepreneurs, moderated by HBS professor Lynda M. Applegate, discussed their experiences in light of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
people of Texas first learned of their freedom. That became a day of remembrance and celebration. In this book, readers learn about the events that led to emancipation and why it took so long for the enslaved people in Texas to hear the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
program, led the 30-minute discussion, posing executives’ questions about leadership and the business opportunities of commercial space travel—and about everyday life in space. Virts, who posts images of the earth on Instagram and Twitter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
strategy to develop 32 franchises that are strong in their markets and appealing as national and international brands." One such mega-franchise is the New England Patriots, led by owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and his son Jonathan (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Oishi in 2000. “She had ideas to change the system, and her thinking was different,” he recalls. Oishi led Nomaguchi and two other doctors in brainstorming a picture of the ideal medical practice, one that incorporated the best of what... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
festival in the region. And that then, led to a conversation I had with Richard Branson, to start the Extreme Tech Challenge, which is a worldwide startup competition, where we have entrants, really, from like 100 countries in the world... View Details