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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
understand. One of the central challenges we face now is that people hold their childhoods dear. Parents who grew up with Sesame Street don’t want it to change, but the world they grew up in is different from the one their kids are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Daniel Kafie (MBA '07): social networking games for Latin America. Photo courtesy Vostu.com It may have taken them two years to finally find their entrepreneurial feet in the online world of social media, but the three cofounders of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
almost four decades ago, this change is clearly more evolutionary than revolutionary. During the last five years, the Internet - and more specifically, its most user-friendly thoroughfare, the World Wide Web - has emerged as a preferred... View Details
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Alex Roth
thinking I'd learn models and techniques — like a cash-flow analysis. I didn't realize I'd get a structure for thinking about the moral dilemmas in business and leadership. I just finished the Leadership and Corporate Accountability... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Though the Internet has woven itself into most aspects of life, few fields have adopted it more actively, and at times controversially, than health care. What new business models in health care, based on the Internet, are rising to the... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
risks, government policy risks, and uncertainty about payments. In answer to conference organizers’ question about what he learned, McKinsey Senior Partner Daniel Stephens wrote: “I did not have an appreciation for just how fast developing View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize the View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
awards modeled on the Baker Scholar program at HBS. The Haweses' philanthropic interests have also extended to a number of humanitarian causes, including world hunger and the plight of people in troubled... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
or countries that might want to invest in Botswana? Is it a land of opportunity? Much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict, and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa.—Debora... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
The Broadband Explosion Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World edited by Robert D. Austin and Stephen P. Bradley (HBS Press) Associate Professor Austin and Professor Bradley have collected a series of essays about... View Details
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Stephanie Atiase
Stephanie applied to HBS, deferring her admission to work at Ernst & Young and acquire her CPA. "The thing about the Harvard MBA,” Stephanie says, “is that you're challenged every day. This place is as representative of the real business View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Model T owners—and it was basically the last major innovation in gasoline retailing for more than 100 years, says Bryan Frist (MBA 2015). “The gas station was stuck in the 20th century.” That revelation led to a question: If you can get... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
years, we developed a model—the Alignment Model—that provides a market standard against which to analyze a company’s pay relative to its performance,” Ferracone says. “So, for a given company, in terms of its current revenue size, its industry or peer group, and its... View Details
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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog
competing ideas, ideologies, and narratives. Examine the powerful role that our implicit models and “theories of the case” play in the choices we ultimately make as leaders and strategic actors. Face the possibility that our strongly held... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Extending Opportunity: Brock Family Fellowship
was to go back into manufacturing after receiving my MBA, but HBS opened up a whole new world of possibilities," she says. "I had a phenomenal experience at HBS," continues Brock-Wilson. "It revealed new fields of interest, enriched my... View Details
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation Course Number 1231 Assistant Professor Jorge Tamayo Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Paper/Project Assistant Professor Jorge Tamayo Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Paper/Project Overview In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in Metairie, Louisiana. Whether it was being on the math team, the school paper, or the wrestling team, the teachers in those situations... View Details