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15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

intelligence of students and faculty. The centers assist faculty with research and case writing, strengthen relationships with local alumni and practitioners, facilitate faculty and student immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

endeavors. After building his fortune in the virtual world, Steven D. Murch (MBA '91) has taken up a hammer to build a lasting legacy in the real world. “My dream is to create a foundation that helps people,” says Murch, a Microsoft... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

for desired specimens in real time. Chicago: Cinekin (Constance Freedman, MBA ’06, chief strategy officer) uses people’s movie preferences to predict the compatibility of couples. London: Qtara (Steve Berry, MBA ’79, chairman) is developing cutting-edge intelligent... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 May 2020
News

Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

virtual conversation with 50 HBSAAA members. The hour-long session focused on ways black business owners can shore up their finances in anticipation of a long period of economic uncertainty, and included advice on how to apply for loan... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2020
News

Turning Point: Change, Stat

to her ear. They whispered prayers and saw her peacefully take her last breath. They were so appreciative of having experienced that moment of closure; that has really stuck with me. There weren’t any medical therapies to alter the course of what was about to happen,... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Margot Dushin Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 11 Results SEI Welcomes First-Year MBA Students Margot Dushin 17 Sep 2020 In early September, first-year students around the... View Details

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition 6 MAY 2021 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Danielle Allen Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University... View Details

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis

to onboard 17 Summer Associates around the globe, they focused on engaging their current Actis employees in the process. In a typical year, each Summer Associate would be assigned a line manager and team buddy who could assist with... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Other Financial Services

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

interconnected global community. So disease threats such as COVID-19 need to be recognized as part of the current work-scape and systematically addressed,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of Business Administration Ashley... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2001
News

Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

presentations that focused on the School's past, present, and future. Associate Professor Nancy Koehn's talk touched on highlights of HBS history, from 1908 to the present. Dean Kim B. Clark outlined current initiatives and priorities, and View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

Government leaders rushing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March gave companies little time to shift to an all-virtual workforce. Ready or not, many businesses had to become more digital. But true digital transformation takes far more than a Zoom account. Using... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

will be reviewed this fall. “We didn't need a year to get a lot of this work underway, these are all things we were able to get started on immediately,” said Brook Dennard Rosser, assistant director of diversity outreach for the MBA... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

a package delivered in a week was fast. Today, it’s not uncommon to have products delivered within hours. And in the future they are going to want more than a thud at the doorstep. They are going to want a person to go through the door to View Details

Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy

01 Oct 1997
News

Terence P. Stewart

sectors, the U.S. economy, and American workers and their communities. "In fact," observes Stewart, "over the past forty years, virtually every segment of the U.S. economy has required assistance at our... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

(@sgallani) is an assistant professor of business administration. Regina E. Herzlinger: Patients will choose ambulatory care more often There will be a radical shift in the role of hospitals in the health care sector. The diminution in... View Details