Filter Results:
(987)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(5,708)
- People (35)
- News (987)
- Research (3,305)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (2,110)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(5,708)
- People (35)
- News (987)
- Research (3,305)
- Events (16)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (2,110)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
entrepreneurs such as Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book “an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for teaching... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the world. That doesn't even make... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
of their talented employees by managing and developing them. It explains what it means to orient one's leadership style around a commitment to finding and cultivating high-performers. An American Journey by Mal Mixon (MBA 1968) (Smart... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
where he served as vice president of business development, among other roles, and led development of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. After five years he made the jump to government, serving as the first at-large... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
the image of women as victims in conflict zones and reshaping development programs targeted at poor countries. As a deputy director at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she is uniquely positioned to see her ideas through.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
go-to-market projects in sectors ranging from social impact venture capital to artificial intelligence. “Having the chance to deepen my learning in such a hotbed of technological innovation, all while engaging with a dynamic country and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
list of the costs of the “conveyor belt to college”: high dropout rates, increased stress levels, and massive debt. Her suggested fix? The bridge year—a key facet of Falik’s Global Citizen Year, which offers graduating high school students real world immersion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
“wicked problems” will throw off an enormous amount of social and economic value, such as the start of new businesses and advances in fundamental research. The bottom line, says Kao, is that innovation pays. He points to the work of Nobel... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
reports that the transition from British rule back to Chinese sovereignty is proceeding smoothly. If anything, he says, 1979 - not 1997 - was more of a watershed date. That was the year Deng Xiaoping opened China's doors to the world. "Between 1949 and 1979, Hong Kong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
served as senior associate dean for Faculty Planning and Development and coordinated the opening of HBS's research office in Hong Kong in 1999. Hayes has written and published widely. Three of his articles have won McKinsey Awards for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
are highly valued; social media is favored by many. There is also a desire to see the alumni database further leveraged. Alumni want customized email communications from the School. They would also like more assistance in navigating the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
future growth prospects based on revenue per product. —Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001) The appeal of the product to young parents seems apparent. Thisappeal can be better monetized on a social platform rather than a conventional distribution... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists howled against this so-called... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
child-focused development organization. The Expedition for Education has secured backing for Childreach's school-support efforts from regional companies and HBS alumni. In return, Høegh and other "cyberexperts" on the HBS team will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons