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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
people,” Deshpandé says. The enterprising Bikram, born in 1946 in Calcutta and known worldwide by his first name, began studying yoga as a four-year-old. He arrived in the United States in 1971, opening his first studio in Los Angeles and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
transfer, but also all the novel recombinations that come from migrants working with locals.” Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) But Choudhury also observed the many obstacles that can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
case studies she read at HBS, which is why she often refers to her role at B Lab simply as that of a “storyteller.” Her own story is filled with determination to find a path. Raised in Stratford, New Jersey, Coupounas was the youngest, by... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
Images courtesy of Breakwater Chicago How was the idea for Breakwater Chicago born? "I came up with the idea for Breakwater Chicago after my business school internship at The Venetian in Las Vegas. I observed that Chicago had not yet... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
on the tarmac at London’s Farnborough Airport. The seeds for their venture were sown at HBS, where they met and collaborated on a field study examining the efficiencies of business travel using very light jets (VLJs). Photograph Courtesy... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case study that looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
society more broadly,” observes HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. While celebrated for their public accomplishments, the honorees’ private lives reflect their devotion to family and community. We present glimpses of both in photos by Pulitzer... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of hours interviewing and View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks into his first year at HBS. “We... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
YouTube) Order the book TEDx Atlanta talk on The Progress Principle Amabile also spent hours talking with two of her younger sisters about behavior they observed in other family members or in classmates at school: “Why did they act that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
to enter the medical profession. With the United States on the brink of nuclear war, he wondered, "What use will I be as a doctor if the world is not a betterrun place?" He shifted his field of study and went on to receive a Ph.D. from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Austin, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, as the main curriculum anchor for the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. In ESS, case studies on nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid entities are the foundation for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
Program, begun twenty years ago, and the Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), established in 1993, the new service leadership program represents a further expansion of HBS's interest in the management and leadership of social-sector entities. View Details