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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni. Working closely with the School's Alumni Relations staff, the committee has developed a number of activities designed to strengthen young alumni connectedness, including a more comprehensive commencement program and a homecoming... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
enough," would later be carved into a wooden plaque and hung in the workshop. Godtfred Kirk Kristiansen represented the second generation. The LEGO brick came into being during Godtfred's tenure; he considered it a unique, sturdy, simple... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
we want to convey." Marketing efforts will include creating new publications targeted at specific audiences, as well as sending HBS representatives to colleges and universities to discuss business-education options with undergraduates.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
strategy represents the new competitive standard, replacing the conventional "make and sell" method of doing business. Sense & Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited by HBS professors Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
miracle. Professor David B. Yoffie served as informal moderator and faculty chair. Global Gathering Early in the opening session on April 6, conference chairman Robert Piccus and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark welcomed the international group, which included View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
understanding of how to develop meaningful experiences for recent high school graduates. Realizing that the global pandemic would be an issue for members of the class of 2020, she launched Global Citizen Academy, a leadership experience View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
having Spanish speakers on the staff and leadership team. “It means we’re developing a bilingual service from the beginning.” Beyond being the right thing to do, it’s critical to Ovia’s competitive advantage, he acknowledges: “If we’re going to View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
classroom represents the latest step in a two-decades-long journey that could be called “Building a Global Curriculum at HBS.” What began on a modest scale in the mid-1990s has more recently, under Dean Nitin Nohria, taken on greater... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
sound like a throwback way of delivering care, but paired with a few critical 21st-century upgrades—technology-enabled efficiency and patient-centered design—this community-based care model may represent one of Japan’s best hopes for the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
people are so fun and engaging.” Oakes, who studied architecture as an undergraduate at Rice University, says she’s always been interested in the link between a project’s design and its social impact. Her decision to attend HBS resulted... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
had been the beneficiary of people who cared. And they cared by creating programs that were designed to help the less fortunate, they cared by creating programs that were designed to help Black people who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in cities around the world and raising... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
many HBS graduates, to invest in new ways of solving old problems. The five social entrepreneurs featured below are a representative sample of the scores of alums who have dedicated themselves to creating or working for organizations that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
students in the MBA Program. In 1988, 16 percent of the HBS student population was international, a figure that had grown to 26 percent by 1997. "This year, by country count, we have the most diverse class in the School's history," Fadule observes, noting that 75... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey