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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
faculty members representing diverse academic units at HBS traveled to Munich to probe the factors underlying the Mittelstand model. They visited companies both private and public, large and mid-sized, to understand the innovation... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
help them expand or make critical improvements. Launched in 2009, Edify has assisted 1,100 private schools by loaning each a minimum $5,000. The schools, which are run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
which featured a number of HBS professors and alumni practitioners as panelists and speakers, drew a large and enthusiastic group of attendees. After welcoming remarks by the conference chair, RDA Healthcare Consulting president Robert... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
over the next five to 10 years, almost 60 percent of the world's population will, in fact, live in cities instead of the rural areas. And that's going to put a huge burden on the infrastructure that cities will have to create. “The way we created Myles Cars was an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
Unable to attend this year's Cyberposium because of the impending birth of his first child, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivered the February event's keynote address from Seattle. Appearing on a large video screen in Burden... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
analytics model the ways that different variables interact: the number of seeds planted per acre, the amount of nitrogen added to the soil, the crop rotation, and rainfall and tillage practices, among others. With a View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
the “genius grants.” Juan Salgado (OPM 45, 2014), president and CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino in Chicago, has led the organization since 2001, working with the largely Latino community on Chicago’s southwest side. Many of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
Lima toll road in Peru. In Buenos Aires, despite Argentina’s economic difficulties, the team found a model transit system—including a new bus rapid transit system to alleviate congestion—that residents have embraced for its convenience... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
Geoffrey Canada on a number of large and small special assignments, including a two-year project that analyzed and streamlined the organization’s database so that the information can be used by staff to improve the programs and services... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky explain why we shouldn't fear the Terminator, on the Skydeck podcast Google can identify a dog because the search engine has been fed millions of images of dogs—all labeled as such by humans—and it’s used those images to create a visual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
invest in a data science artificial intelligence across your enterprise to take advantage of the large volume of data being produced. And finally, to actually deliver new value to your customers, you need to design new business View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to depoliticize aid. To be eligible for MCC... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
In its place is a debilitating, often desperate condition, bequeathed to them in large measure by the apathy, greed, and ignorance of adults both near and far. That, one could say, is Africa. But ask JoAnna Van Gerpen (MBA ’81), UNICEF’s... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
life,” Ayala notes. Under the auspices of community partnerships, the lanterns will be used in public facilities such as schools and clinics during the day and rented out for a nominal fee at night. The rental fees can be pooled to enable the community to purchase... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
array of academic and administrative online resources. It has changed the way students, faculty, staff, and alumni communicate. The project also changed Royo's career aspirations. While working at the Business School, Royo, who is fluent in Japanese, completed his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna