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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
shelter–these were the everyday realities of a boyhood spent in the outskirts of London during the early 1940s. In this personal and meticulously detailed account of growing up under the stresses, daily dangers, and constant movement of... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
of our students who reminded us that, fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, our society continues to be far from inclusive. The #MeToo movement has given us a powerful window into the ways women’s progress in virtually every... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
start in butcher scales and time clocks and movement through virtually every aspect of technological development of the 20th century. While IBM doesn’t break out Watson’s revenue, the unit falls within IBM’s “strategic imperatives”: the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
the time that as far as the Internet was concerned, the government was not involved. That observation intrigued me. Later, I listened to a conversation between two FIBS historians regarding the enclosure movement in England between the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington, he helped lead a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
ecosystems around the world had created all [the] billion dollar businesses. Today, over 84 startup ecosystems have created one billion-dollar business. It isn't that the startup movement is globalizing alone, it's that the biggest and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
The tech industry has thrived by capturing our best students—regardless of origin—and giving them exciting jobs, which helps make America one of the most innovative countries in the world. Restricting the free movement of talent does not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
power and on the streets and highlights the substantial impact these movements had on the city’s governance and power dynamics. The Battle for Boston poses a critical inquiry: Can cities truly embrace progressivism and govern effectively... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
soil, Keen says; it can also lead to better nutrition and economic sustainability for an indigenous population that has long suffered from obesity, diabetes, and poverty. Far from alone, Keen and Sacred Seed are part of a growing food sovereignty View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
to say they live and die by this, but they really do pay close attention to these. Bill: They do pay close attention to them. I think for good and bad reasons. There is a lot that we can gain by looking at rankings or looking at kind of movements, broad View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
gender, and class. Over the past five years, the energy of social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has made power sharing across race, gender, and class—and their intersections—an imperative. Here, again, corporations have a... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
movement up the main streets in this town, from the town center, to about half a kilometer away where there is a church. To describe the procession, I'd say it was both somber but also celebrant. And by somber, I mean there was a bit of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
slow or even shift into reverse, but without disastrous consequences. “Higher rates would moderate the froth in the market,” says Furber, who sees no harm in knocking out players who depend too much on easy credit. “An upward movement in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is giving a tax break, it should be able to put some restrictions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Past Issues - Alumni
the mechanical. Now the movement is finally starting to crest. Complete Table of Contents September 2021 Growing Home Yoshito Hori is revitalizing his hometown—and hoping to inspire other entrepreneurs to do the same My Pandemic Pivot... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how protests and boycotts drag companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
or whatever, and she had handled it and everything else, Comey's announcement was like, uh, when are we ever going to get rid of this issue? And if you thought that she was guilty, it was reinforcing a narrative that you already believed. Where there was View Details