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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
and analytics than liberal arts when you don’t speak the language,” observes Ma. Her hard work and focus paid off: She was accepted at MIT and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. “I believe in what the School is trying to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
Massachusetts. Upon graduation in 1995, he was ordained and called to serve in Kent. "The people here have been very welcoming and forthcoming," he says, noting that both he and his wife, Rhea, have been graciously accepted by their new... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review Press) Despite increasing reliance... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
labor-market forces that have to do that, that are driving that. But the net result is, we've created quicksand for ourselves, where we don't have enough quality people entering the classroom. And so then we try to legislate the floor. We... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When Harvard announced in early March that all instruction would move online after spring break, the clock started ticking. “HBS had just two weeks to select and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
directors. I was the only man. When I joined a table for a meal, the conversation died—and when I left, it picked up again. I mentioned what had happened when I gave my presentation. The response? That happens to us every single day. I had always understood inequality... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
The day before classes started in Sep-tember 1973, my classmates and I made our first stop at Baker 20 and then sauntered, wide-eyed and nervous, to Baker Beach for an informal gathering of the great Class of 1975. All I knew about those View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
really important, challenging problems is for me the single most important place to be investing in the next decade,” he said, adding he recently invested in Headspace, a company that provides guided meditation sessions online or through an app. “Behind the scenes,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human side and find a way forward when analysis falls short. Chasing Rainbows and Beyond: A Spectrum of Life and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Calm During Coronavirus Chaos,held on May 31. “Neil has led a number of sessions for the HBS Club of Toronto,” says the club’s president, Kazi Ahmed (MBA 2011). “That got us thinking about what he could share that might help people cope... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
its “industrial Internet,” an open global network of machines, data, and people that provides analytics and designs solutions to optimize its customers’ complex operations. “The paradigm is not displacement... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
an unknowledgeable, unsophisticated person with no analytics of a certain set type that you need to make decisions provided. We had no investment committee. People just lined up in front of my desk as if I... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
Doug McMillon, the current CEO of Walmart, Brian Moynihan, the current CEO of Bank of America, Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998), the current CEO of Landit. We've had conversations with them already about exactly what they have done, how they have done it. We have a lot to... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
cause is pure congestion—too many vehicles trying to occupy the same stretch of road at the same time—but accidents, breakdowns, construction, bad weather, and potholes all take their toll, not to mention time that is spent looking for the parking spaces. “What most... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
also an early backer of Noom and Impossible Foods, among others. Upon learning that just two percent of funding goes to female founders, William’s made a strategic commitment to diversity and inclusion; today, 78 percent of founders backed by Serena Ventures are women... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
to unscramble “Scrambled State Capitals,” a presumably brute-force analytical exercise that should play to Watson’s strengths. Indeed, in a similar category, “The Northernmost Capital City,” Watson ran the table, answering all five... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
club notes, has touched the lives of more than half a million people in India and has also exported medicines to many other hard-hit countries in Asia and Africa. Dr. Natarajan founded the Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR), which... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance