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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods. “Generally speaking, Detroit is a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a foundation for children in pre-K,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
BARCOTT: Pledges to pay back donors in “service and deeds.” I am here tonight to thank all the donors who believe in the promise that the students in this room represent,” Rye Barcott (MBA ’09) told the nearly 550 people gathered in early April to celebrate the impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
QUITE SOME TRICK: Randal rendering an HBS classroom speechless, at least momentarily. Innovation and magic are kindred activities: Both can amaze and upend reality while introducing something new or totally unexpected, as if from nowhere, as if from thin air. So when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working paper, “Unmask-ing Manly Men:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession This downturn has likely changed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought, ‘Hurray, he won’t see a kitchen... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jan 2016
- News
Why MGH’s President Just Joined This Boston Tech Company’s Board
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this video, she talks about the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Former i-lab resident LovePop—founded by Wombi Rose (MBA 2015) and John Wise (MBA 2015)—had an atypical appearance on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank: By the end of their presentation, they... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
First Students Accepted to Deferred Admission Program
HBS has accepted 106 seniors from 52 colleges to take part in the new 2+2 Program, the School’s groundbreaking deferred MBA admission program. It is designed to reach a diverse group of high-achieving college students studyingin a wide variety of fields. After two... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
This is a remarkable time in the business world and in the history of Harvard Business School. With advances in technology, a thriving global marketplace, and the entrepreneurial spirit alive and well in companies of all sizes, we are in an era of expanding... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to spending that boosts the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Father, Daughter Team Up to Keep Car-Hauling Company Prosperous
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
While studying at HBS, Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990) was also working on the opening chapter of a remarkable social enterprise success story. “Our idea was to call upon diverse young people to give a year of service addressing the most pressing challenges of our... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
A serial entrepreneur and innovator, Nicholas Grouf (MBA 1995) helped create the technology for online personalization, cowrote the first policies around Internet privacy, developed bundled low-cost computers and online access, launched the first online examples of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Business as a Force for Good
As director of B Lab, the standards organization for certified B corporations, Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) encourages companies around the world to be a force for good. By promoting policies that benefit their employees, their communities, and their impact on... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
In his work managing real estate investments at Samson Investment Partners in New York, Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) often draws on the same sensibilities that guide his leadership of the nonprofit New York Landmarks Conservancy. “I don’t think you should put your... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely untouched,” says the cofounder of... View Details