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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
In establishing new events and traditions, Stern is in frequent contact with his Melbourne counterpart, Patrick G. O'Brien (MBA '94), president of the Harvard Club of Australia- Victoria (HCAV). O'Brien and Stern agree on the clubs' dual objectives: provide View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
creative capitalism,” said Gates. “But it’s not just about dollars. It really is about the innovation power” that American businesses could unleash by allowing their most creative and innovative people to spend 5 percent of their time working to solve View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
WeMaintain Student Business Track Winners Dubilier $75,000 grand prize: Hour 72+ Satchu-Burgstone $25,000 runner-up: Alpha Vantage Crowd Favorite: Hour 72+ Student Social Enterprise Track Winners Peter M.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
BARCOTT: Pledges to pay back donors in “service and deeds.” I am here tonight to thank all the donors who believe in the promise that the students in this room represent,” Rye Barcott (MBA ’09) told the nearly 550 people gathered in early April to celebrate the impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
of the most difficult things about this job has been managing the ongoing emotional trauma of those members who have stayed on," says Bothwick. "This is not a typical organizational restructuring; this is a place where people lived what they taught and had their View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(or lifelong learning) is critical if one is to keep up with a rapidly changing business and social environment. All agreed that the School is in a unique position to strengthen connectedness by offering educational programs that meet the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
has taken the lead in coordinating and sharing case leads, and we saw remarkable progress this past year in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program. COVID-19 has changed the way we operate in both business and social settings. What (if... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
finding solutions for high unemployment in outmoded manufacturing industries, which was a situation that contributed to political and social unrest in the region. “It was one of the first applications of the ideas in The Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
their social conscience. To them, doing good is just table stakes. Scratch has developed a proprietary methodology examining “brand love” to decode the science of brand affinity across generations. We found that millennials assume that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
diverse as limited liability, deposit insurance, Social Security, and federal disaster relief, paying particular attention to the original thinking behind them. He concludes that the nation's lawmakers, finding shortcomings in the private... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and responsibilities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
responsibility to put the patient at the center of care," explains Dr. Thomas Feeley, head of MD Anderson's Institute for Cancer Care Innovation. That approach fit well with Porter's research on value-based health care, in which care is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
had worked as a design engineer at Procter and Gamble, in addition to having cofounded a social enterprise that successfully commercialized biodegradable sanitary pads in India. Saigal started looking into... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
times are good, the numbers increase, a diversity officer may be appointed, and HR institutes sensitivity training. Denmark West (MBA 1998), an advisor, investor, and founding partner of Connectivity Ventures, points to the early 2000s as... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
as an HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellow, he launched a leadership program for at-risk Hawaiian high-school students and established new internships that will send more KSG and HBS students to the state to... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European View Details