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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1963) Xulon Press Have you ever wondered how a nation feeding a starving population during the Great Depression could, 20 years later, be approaching the greatest growth period in history? This book could be the story of you, your... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is staggering: The United View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
parcels at a rapid pace while staying one step ahead of private-sector developers. The strategy required special clearance from the TPL’s national board—which he received—and resulted in a temporary hangover post–financial crisis. But the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
became securities-trading companies more than money-raising companies. Meanwhile, an ideological war was developing in the country between those who believed government was largely the cause of the economic problems that bedeviled the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
and the sea was a lovely cacophony of light and sound. Seals barked and penguins chattered. As for the whales, they were awesome not because of their size but because they seemed so aware — so human. Sea life is in great peril. The United View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation titled "Developing View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Retrofitting our commercial building stock, not to mention our residential building stock, will require millions of workers at a decent skill level. These are elements of a strategy. Will it work? I don’t know, but the idea that we can have broad-based View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
are areas where income lost to unjust enrichment would have been saved or invested by black people. It’s not a big proportion of GDP, but it will require a huge emotional and psychological shift in the public’s thinking. I believe it can and will happen.” In another... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
market. Last month, moreover the nation marked the anniversary of September 11. What has all this meant for HBS? I believe an institution's true character is revealed in times of great stress, and that certainly has been the case at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
buy key words and use search engine optimization. There’s social media, too. Kimpton has a Facebook page, and a lot of our chefs use Twitter. We haven’t spent money on national ads to date, since we’ve been pretty effective through word... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure. Outside help was available, but often inadequate. A similar infrastructure collapse on a national scale, Popik says, could result in millions of deaths rather than thousands. That’s why Resilient Societies has been a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
and to try to protect children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. These initiatives form the cornerstone of UNICEF, founded by the UN in 1946 as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. The agency (which has since... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was named one of "Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years" by PBS. Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
leaders in building a stronger nation and world to ameliorate this ongoing legacy. Keep printing such thought-provoking and effective articles about issues of global social injustices. Joe Steele (MBA ’83) Craryville, NY View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
Why did you leave blank pages at the end of the book? Those pages are for the readers to write their own stories. We want to spark a national discussion about the role of immigrants in our country, but this book isn’t a political... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
HBS, HMS, and Harvard’s School of Public Health. Two case protagonists were in attendance: Dr. Paul Farmer, an HMS professor and the subject of the best-seller Mountains Beyond Mountains, and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, executive secretary of the Rwandan View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
public in 2011, and today, 5 million members strong, it’s the go-to site for anyone who needs to hire local service providers. “Perseverance is important. I’m the kind of person who just refuses to give up.” “Perseverance is important. I’m the kind of person who just... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young