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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
across the University who are at various stages of developing or launching businesses. During biweekly discussions at the Harvard Innovation Lab, topics run the gamut from attracting angel investors, to recruiting a team without funds, to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
planned to publicize Clocky beyond some photos on the course website, but a few gadget aficionado blogs linked to the images, and the buzz went viral. Around the same time, HBS professor Elie Ofek was seeking case studies for his second-year Marketing and View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- News
Potential for Mass Customization
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
John Whitehead Played a Key Role in Developing the HBS Initiative AUSTIN, WHITEHEAD, AND RANGAN: Social enterprise pioneers. In the early 1990s, legendary Wall Street executive and former deputy secretary of state John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47) decided there was a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
the conference examined the application of technology in traditional businesses and the innovations that will influence the everyday activities of a broad spectrum of companies." WSA: Focus on Work/Life Balance "Women have always been... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
in the process, they learned that of the more than 230,000 K–12 school leaders in the United States, half had no access to quality professional development, either because programs weren’t offered nearby or were cost prohibitive. To... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
issue? A Catalyst survey of over 4,100 full-time employed men and women who graduated from 26 top MBA programs worldwide (12 in the United States) from 1996 to 2007 showed that the women just out of business school started in lower-level... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Professor of Business Administration and Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs Currency Why do startups fail? That question caught Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
Course Platform, a significant enhancement to our already innovative Web-based tool that allows faculty and students to post and share class schedules, assignments, video, and handouts. Additionally, our faculty experimented with new ways... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that demand, business schools around the world turn out about 500,000 MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
inspires the innovative products and superior services that create lasting shareholder value. Did we expect too much from CEOs over the past decade? During that period, we saw the rise of the imperial CEO. They were treated like rock... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Alumni Association of Boston (HBSAB). Each virtual panel discussion features several leaders from nonprofit organizations who are taking on big social problems, innovating solutions and having significant impact. “Our goal is to educate,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of extraordinary financial View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
adopting business practices. Helping students, alumni, outside business leaders, and nonprofit managers develop skills and innovations they can apply to the social sector is one of the main goals of the Initiative on Social Enterprise, an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith recalls, was "personable, creative,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations to determine how he would best fit into the field. Since that time, Kendall has brought innovative and pragmatic leadership to conservation efforts ranging from the protection of Costa Rican rain forests to Massachusetts... View Details