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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred until retirement) are actually... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa. I’ve served on the board of WildCare, an education and advocacy nonprofit based in San Rafael, California, that cares for injured and orphaned animals, which is how I became involved in rehabilitating and training birds of prey.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
brand, Silk explains, "Different skills are required, but notable among them are creativity, analytical know-how, the ability to seize the opportunity, and the passion to make it a crusade. Another key element is that our 150 employees... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man behind the story and the successful economic policies that he and others crafted with the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaders must be strategists first
questions facing a business,” says Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration and Director of Research at HBS. Once the heart of leadership, strategy has devolved to an analytical problem to be solved, a left-brain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
and analytics than liberal arts when you don’t speak the language,” observes Ma. Her hard work and focus paid off: She was accepted at MIT and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. “I believe in what the School is trying to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
Massachusetts. Upon graduation in 1995, he was ordained and called to serve in Kent. "The people here have been very welcoming and forthcoming," he says, noting that both he and his wife, Rhea, have been graciously accepted by their new... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
DNA of innovators. What they have to say might surprise you. Can people learn to be more innovative? Clayton Christensen Christensen Photo courtesy Harvard Business School I don’t want to overstate the case. I think about 40 percent of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
labor-market forces that have to do that, that are driving that. But the net result is, we've created quicksand for ourselves, where we don't have enough quality people entering the classroom. And so then we try to legislate the floor. We... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When Harvard announced in early March that all instruction would move online after spring break, the clock started ticking. “HBS had just two weeks to select and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
directors. I was the only man. When I joined a table for a meal, the conversation died—and when I left, it picked up again. I mentioned what had happened when I gave my presentation. The response? That happens to us every single day. I had always understood inequality... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
Richardson, proudly noting that her mother later became a teacher. A native of Arlington, Texas, Richardson received a track scholarship at Baylor University, where she majored in business administration and journalism. After graduation, she merged her View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an appropriate way to help View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
The day before classes started in Sep-tember 1973, my classmates and I made our first stop at Baker 20 and then sauntered, wide-eyed and nervous, to Baker Beach for an informal gathering of the great Class of 1975. All I knew about those View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
opportunities, measuring and analyzing purpose inside organizations, ESG data analytics and strategies, and the role of leadership and governance in corporate scandals and misconduct. Key takeaway: “We are still at the early stages of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
new technologies and their ability to shadow an individual's online choices and habits are troubling to many observers. The use of technologies such as cookies -- programs that unobtrusively keep track of a visitor's previous activities on a site -- could make View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
have for any other investor. We do what we do because we think it’s awesome, we believe in it, and because our customers like it. It's a powerful solution that really makes people happy. Did you have a viewing party? We were going to, but... View Details