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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
addition, the club has sponsored gatherings designed to encourage more students from Taiwan to apply to the School. "We had a forum featuring a number of graduates who talked about life at HBS, the case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
advertising, particularly for determined adversaries. In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers’ risks of being defrauded and reward... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
activities, led by facilitators from Outward Bound Professional, was designed to give students comprising 152 newly formed Learning Teams a chance to get to know each other while introducing them to team-building techniques. The afternoon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
employee focus encouraged workers to recast themselves as leaders responsible for change, and they began offering innovative ideas for how to turn the company around. Within six months, HCL had secured a new $330 million contract, and by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
"Early in life," says Bennie Wiley, "I learned an important guiding principle: look for ways to exercise your values." As president and CEO of The Partnership, an organization designed to open doors for minority professionals in the city... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop at age 11. As a teen, he began... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Whether through career choice, board membership, volunteerism, or philanthropic support, HBS graduates traditionally have shown a strong interest in giving something back to their communities. Taking this commitment a step further, the Class of 1973 has View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local industries that depend on their talents. (For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
academics that had been doing research on the subject, and also individuals who'd taken sabbaticals, and companies, through the HR and the talent departments that have designed policies. I'm working with a professor at the University of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
would encourage moves toward moderation in equity-based pay packages, such as the use of indexing. Palepu: With costs more apparent, might board compensation committees also gain a better understanding of what they're actually giving up?... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
experience? Falik: Traditionally, study abroad has been the experience that we’ve encouraged kids to have to expand their horizons and have a global experience. When we look at the data, though, it’s pretty striking: 80% of kids who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Impact Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard with HBS professors George Serafeim and Peter Tufano. Key takeaway: “Many companies are racing to invent, finance, scale, and deploy technologies to decarbonize—while they... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
create an inclusive environment where the world's best talent can thrive and be inspired to do their best work in support of the School's mission. Integration—Pursuing opportunities to encourage and support research and curriculum... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
faculty development efforts.” Garvin worked closely with HBS professors Dwight B. Crane, Thomas J. DeLong, and Janice H. Hammond and Executive Director of the Division of Research and Faculty Development Valerie Porciello (PMD 77, 2002) in View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
will complement the skills and wisdom the fellows acquired during their “first” careers in the public and private sectors. “People who have accomplished a great deal during their careers are uniquely suited to lead and to envision solutions to big problems,” Kanter... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Leger’s manager at the World Bank encouraged her to apply to Harvard Business School and earn her MBA. “I found my time at HBS to be incredibly fulfilling—academically, intellectually, and socially,” she recalls. “My best memories of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Leigh Rawdon (foreground) with Tea Collection designers in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. The fanciful wood alebrije carvings inspired several pieces in the company’s fall collection. (Courtesy Leigh Rawdon) It didn’t take long for Leigh... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details