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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
“We want to be the Sam Adams of the auto world.” Rogers launched his Massachusetts-based company, Local Motors, with $4 million in start-up capital; its online contest (LocalMotors.com/competition.php) invites the public in various cities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
access encrypted data on the phone so contact tracers can notify those who have been near the person and provide them with health care guidance. The development of the app—an example of government-supported technological innovation for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the motives of those fighting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
don’t have a clue. “What kills me is that there are all these companies using buzzwords like ‘innovation’ in their annual reports. And I believe that 98 percent of them don’t know what innovation really means,” says Ross. “It’s not as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
of the public and private realms and their impact on financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole. Faculty-led sessions will delve into four key areas:... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
that could better personalize middle and high school education, closing the gap between students who excelled and those who needed support? So, in 2012, Zaikos launched the Intrinsic School—a network of public charter schools with an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
an exciting time for opportunity in the logistics industry. “It’s going to raise a lot of questions, none of which are without consequence for the Postal Service,” he says. Through his consulting practice and now as director and strategic advisor in PWC’s View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
of schools and libraries didn’t have a broadband connection that met their needs. Although nearly all public K–12 schools in the United States were connected to the internet by 2006, most had slow dial-up or DSL connections that students... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
climate change. Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) READ MORE Jen Flint: I'm assuming this pandemic was not a part of your business plan, so what has it meant for you, how have you had to adapt? Sanchali Pal: Definitely not. Our initial plan was actually to do a View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Convening Power
Foundation. Both are also members of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors. In discussing their inspiration for the gift, Seth Klarman noted that HBS has a unique capacity to contribute to the public dialogue about effective and responsible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Economic and Social Value by Michael Beer and coauthors (Harvard Business Review Press) As global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts, with their people,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
infrastructure updates are happening so that we can provide the support and the risk management and the code enforcement, if you will, that is needed for the infrastructure piece. And so I think to climate-proof at scale, to me, it has to be a View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
approaches in K–12 education reform. Each year, more than 500 students enroll in SEI elective courses and the Social Enterprise Club is one of the largest student-led clubs on campus. Alumni play a vital role as well. "Many of our alumni are the ones who are driving... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
schedule. (In 2018, S’well distributed bottles to every public high school student in New York City, where the company is headquartered, displacing as many as 54 million single-use plastic bottles in one fell swoop. The company also... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
pounds of sweet corn that would have been left in the fields to be tilled under. There is a huge opportunity for innovation and creativity in this work, which is part of what makes it extremely fun." In 2013, Zeaske estimates that Second... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
hygiene products. In 2016, the organization moved to a larger space and hired its first employee. A few years later, it moved to a still-larger location. In the early days of Hope and Comfort, Feingold sometimes struggled to explain the concept of hygiene insecurity to... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
surrounded by technology in other ways, he applied to business school. After four undergraduate years of problem sets and lab work, he found the class participation required by the HBS case method a bit daunting. “I was nervous about View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
eureka moment: when we realized that the lack of digital identification has blocked innovation in the military community," Hall said. "Having to rely on face-to-face verification undermined the main benefits of online transactions: speed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
that the governance of public companies requires relentless attention by directors to the ethical discipline of executives who are accountable to them. — HBS professor emeritus Malcolm S. Salter is author of View Details