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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
of HBS alums who are leading personal crusades against rare diseases. Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) cofounded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation soon after being diagnosed with the blood cancer in 1996. Since then, MMRF has raised over $225 million, started 45 drug... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
and figure out the market by driving around with a map and sticking little dots on it to represent different types of property,” recalls Lionstone’s Dubrowski. “I’d identify tenants in a building by walking into the lobby and reading the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
wasn’t true—there were land mines, left over from years of conflict. Those had to be cleared before cell phone towers and the maintenance roads leading to them could be built. Available maps and government statistics were often... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
never seen before.” Each dive begins the same way. The Pressure Drop first spends several days mapping the area to find the deepest point. Then, the crew waits on Mother Nature—ideally, the weather must be clear and relatively calm. As... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
maps to make its stories relevant and engaging for a demanding, highly educated audience. “The website,” he says, “has come to the galloping rescue of the magazine.” Growing up in Washington, Bradley didn’t aspire to business. From the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
problem, but no one has any idea what’s going on,” says Hawkins. With that framework, he says, “it’s like a puzzle, and you don’t know how the puzzle pieces go together.” But thanks to recent discoveries, including that powerful discovery of the brain’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Keeping Up with the Dean
to outline his five areas for change: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, international engagement, inclusion, and closer ties with the University. Click map for larger view. Illustration by Baker Vail/www.smallworldmaps.com View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
more adventurous approach and have struck a chord with even the most jaded consumers. In fact, almost every success story of the past two decades has been an exception to the rule. Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
is sliced in two by a dual carriageway that is the main route into the city centre from the north. “It’s madness, you cannot have a neighbourhood with a motorway running right through,” he says. He whips out his smartphone to use Google View Details
- 14 Nov 2015
- News
A Message to HBS Alumni in France
our alumni and their families in France. We are thinking of you and hope that you and your loved ones are safe. We encourage you to connect with your fellow alumni using the messaging service on the alumni website (look for the envelope icon on any alumni profile... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
make it better. “So when I left HBS, I set out on the path to find a business to acquire. I was very fortunate that I found the company I did. gWorks got its start helping counties digitize all their county records into an interactive map... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of excellence where organizations really know what they are doing, and there is so much mediocrity. Considering how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
mobilizing change through strong leadership. The Strategy-Focused Organization also introduces a new framework called the strategy map. By analyzing hundreds of scorecards over the last decade, Kaplan and Norton have mapped the patterns... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
A Family Investment
so when his father showed him the HBS campus at the age of 13, the younger Özyeg in began to map out his future. “HBS got into my blood,” he says with a laugh. After studying management and economics at Carnegie Mellon University and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
account by two of Teddy Roosevelt’s sons, Kermit and Theodore Jr., of their experiences in western China and eastern Tibet. The onion-skin map of their journey tucked behind the last page caught Moore’s attention. He traced their path for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
customers to drop a pin on a map to request fuel. And Frist was the driver; he filled gas tanks. In that role, Frist also talked to a number of customers and curious onlookers. He’s heard the dismissive comments: “Oh, that’s lazy. What’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
returns for shareholders and enabling Slayton to take a sabbatical), it had gained 75 percent of worldwide marketshare in VRML authoring products. Slayton's latest ventures include developing an oil mapping technology, running a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
develop an effective strategy (with tools such as SWOT analysis and strategic-change agendas); plan execution of the strategy (through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards); put strategy into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
How should employers and workers adapt to the new demands in today’s technologically driven workforce? Two recent reports by HBS professor Joseph Fuller examine innovative paths to training and building talent pipelines. The first report offers a road View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell