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- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
should be sternly serious, to eat pizza at 2 a.m., to only know what today will bring, to buy books instead of food, to leave my bed unmade, to point out to others when their language is exclusive of others, to head bang on the dance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
hands-on than in previous generations of technology. We’ve worked with seven of the leading AI companies to establish voluntary commitments on safety of large language models, cybersecurity, and ensuring consumers have a full... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
in our memory in a way that numbers, which are more abstract, do not. As a behavioral economist with a focus on how information is communicated via natural language and how ideas become contagious, Assistant Professor Thomas Graeber has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
culminated in the release of his latest book, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. In this conversation with contributor April White, Duhigg talks about how he came to realize the power of conversations,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
“It’s important for US business leaders to respect the countries where they do business, by appreciating their language and culture. In high school, I learned Spanish; in college, I learned Arabic; and at HBS, I found a tutor to teach me... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
Photography by Robert Schoen Ipsita Dasgupta is truly a citizen of the world. The Calcutta native speaks six languages and has lived in Sudan, Cairo, Jakarta, and Manhattan, thanks in part to her father's peripatetic career as a senior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Redefining How Businesses Operate
In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
family gathers around the table during holidays, or the secret language you enjoy with your significant other. To some, these behaviors may seem quirky, but because rituals matter so deeply to us on a personal level, they imbue our lives... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
satisfied Mikitani’s ambition to empower his homeland. “Our mission is to be the number one Internet company in the world,” he says, dressed casually in his Tokyo office. That goal is a key factor in the decision he made in 2010 to establish English as the official... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
than one-third of them American—who among them speak 89 languages in 83 offices in 45 countries. As client companies became more sophisticated and demanding, another change during Daniel's watch was a move away from the role of consultant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
the United States, and I attended Harvard. I want to be the vector connecting all of these different worlds.” Parlez-vous? “French is my first language and it’s still one of my favorites because it’s so beautiful. I also speak Spanish in... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
the body language of one investor. So Bancel turned to the man and said, "Even though we could use your money, do not invest." The potential investors were shocked. "It's because I know it's going to be a very long journey I need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
It all started with a Japanese language class. Steven Williams (MBA ’84) was a senior marketing director at San Francisco’s Genentech when he took Saturday classes at Soko Gakuen Japanese language school... View Details