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- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
solutions to social problems. “Our take is that journalism has become obsessed with what’s wrong in society. We see news all the time about what’s corrupt, what’s broken. That’s fine, up to a point. We need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
schools, health-care system, or electricity. Even today, in a country whose capital has only one traffic light, our route over the breathtakingly narrow mountain passes required all our drivers’ considerable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
opportunities, all with pre-negotiated flexibility from our proprietary framework. Alumna: Anna Auerbach, MBA 2010 Region: Northeastern US/New York Xtelligent: Bridging today’s traffic signals to tomorrow’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Rentrak kept track of the scanner data and performed audits and spot-checks to ensure compliance with the revenue-sharing contracts, thus enabling the new system to thrive. “In this case,” said Narayanan, “the solution was win-win-win.... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere. “What that is today, it’s a website and software and several thousand videos on anything from basic arithmetic all the way up to college-level calculus and physics... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
BC; Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s a way to see where we are. I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a bike trail in Napa.” The push for a cycles-only pathway had been attempted before, in part because Napa has the ninth-highest bicycle accident rate per capita of View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
was just a gleam in a lot of eyes. It’s been a great success. In traffic tonnage, Halifax is now third in Canada behind only Vancouver and Montreal, both much larger metropolitan areas. When my wife and I packed up to come back to Nova... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
the pandemic. In addition to changes in dining services and traffic flow, Simkin also details the in-classroom updates. “A new camera in the back of the room allows for more instinctive and natural eye contact from the professor,” she... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
all other possibilities and have now escalated to me so I can make a decision. Knowing that decisions have consequences and not making the right decision can mean that our new venture may not get to the next milestone, creates a lot of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Challengers
All due respect to the Red Sox, but we think some of Boston's best pitching in May occurred on Western Avenue, not Yawkey Way. As part of a trio of entrepreneurial challenges hosted by the i-lab, six HBS students and two soon-to-be... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
Applied Sciences at Harvard; Harvard fellow Walter Scheirer; and PhD candidate Sam Anthony, all cofounders—narrowed their focus to autonomous cars. By 2016, the startup had a bank of desks in the Harvard i-lab. The cofounders were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
$3,800 per person, about twice the cost of a nonstop first-class ticket. Aero took off in the summer of 2020, when the pandemic had reduced expected global passenger airline traffic by some 60 percent. Subramanian thinks it was the... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
“You should not jump at the first solution that comes to mind. You should consider alternatives and figure out how to apply them.” —Ken Fettig (MBA 1957) “All leadership is very close in nature to friendship. “All leadership is very close... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
audio a few weeks later. But she realized that the approach was missing an opportunity to translate that excitement into actual audio sales—it was marketing product unavailable for purchase. And it didn’t have a shelf life: “YouTube videos can drive View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
billions who are in poverty; solutions must be enduring and last over generations; solutions must be truly effective and make a difference; and all this must happen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
“greatest challenge ”Bloomberg quote. Foreword, C40 Carbon Disclosure Project 2011 p. 34 All C40 data C40 web site http://www.c40cities.org/ “Mayors can’t just talk ”Bloomberg quote (NYT 6/2/11) “Ancient Rome Baghdad London.”. From... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
What's Trending at HBS?
slate begins September 25 with Bill Sahlman addressing "Entrepreneurial Solutions to the World's Problems." He will be followed by Professors John Deighton, Ben Edelman, and Mikolaj Piskorski looking at "Google and Facebook" on October... View Details