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- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
"Impact investing is on the HBS radar now," pointing to the School's Social Enterprise Initiative and faculty such as Michael Chu, Kash Rangan, and Dutch Leonard. "Things are starting to click at the School." she says. "Fifteen years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
to the professors, I never felt that any of them didn't want us there. Looking back, I've always thought I was treated very fairly." Janey Lack (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) concentrated her second-year coursework at HBS in finance. As the only woman in class, she View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
major business schools should create a formal and permanent directors’ institute with East and West Coast campuses. Its purpose would be to ensure that directors are intensively trained for initial board service and then remain current on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
topic and, in 1994, to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a nonprofit organization that aims to catalyze innercity business development across the United States. In frequent talks around the country, Porter... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
University. While there, she studied abroad in Ghana in order to learn more about that part of the world. “I had initially imagined a future in international diplomacy but quickly realized the political side of things was not for me. I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
everyone has experienced what you’re working on,” he says. “So many people have a passion for and a ritual around coffee.” Keller was already a “Peetnik” when he joined the company. Initially a Folgers guy, he was introduced to a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
imported oil. Our initial reaction to the end of communism was to take a victory lap because capitalism had won. We talked of 3 billion new customers without realizing that many of these people would also become competitors. We began to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
subsidiary to oversee development, with former Massport CEO Thomas Glynn serving as CEO and Dean Nohria as chair of the governing board. Initial plans for the first phase of development include a 14-acre complex of research-focused... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group’s president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002 to launch the project. A feasibility study shows that an ethanol plant capable of producing 40 million gallons a year can be built for an View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
School was making strides in research on gender issues. For example, Myra Hart (MBA 1981, DBA 1995) joined the faculty in 1995 and initiated an executive program for women, which was based on her doctoral research on the career choices of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
was everywhere. In the dining hall, going and asking for a particular food or item and just saying that word and having to be asked again what I wanted. So such a simple scenario with such simple words, even that initially was more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
apart! Skynet has become self-aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy. What enemy? Us! Humans!” But Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, says all that Hollywood-inspired fear of artificial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
forced to work from home in the pandemic, it pivoted from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
a successful business and doing the right thing for the planet is a source of immense innovation for Patagonia,” Thoren observes. Among the initiatives she’ll be involved with is the retailer’s long-standing work to convince consumers to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
Complementing that effort is the new William Julius Wilson Institute, an external-facing initiative within HCZ led by Canada and Hayling Price (MBA/MPP 2016),that convenes researchers, policy-makers, funders, and practitioners to build on... View Details