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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
mistaken idea that you can actually find ultimate satisfaction through success. Happiness science helps people break that cycle because it helps them to understand the nature of true satisfaction—how to get it and what true rewards should... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Powered by the HBS Fund
New Video Series Showcases Faculty Research HBS rolled out a video series that captures the intellectual passion and rigor of four members of the School’s faculty in pursuit of new ideas and insights. The series consists of four... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Uncharted Territory
(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Push the system to see where it breaks
Anthony Priest (MBA 1996), program specialist at Washington, DC Public Schools, talks about his move from teaching to working to improve the school system. “The idea is to understand the education system,” he says, “and the first thing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
“There was this idea that it was illegal because it’s a patient kickback or beneficiary inducement,” Gastfriend says. DynamiCare asked HHS to issue an advisory opinion on its protocol; the government agency found favorably for the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
because it was completely different.” She is grateful for the unexpected opportunity to explore a new career path she might never have considered otherwise. “I developed ideas for startup companies that use artificial intelligence in... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
six early participants of Girls Group SEE MORE Watch a video profile of six early participants of Girls Group “That was completely mind-blowing to me,” says Schooner, who was a board member for the Women’s Center at the time. She had the View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
with a second home in Utah. Nonetheless, according to the Boston Globe (February 12, 1999), Romney was surprised to be chosen to take on the Organizing Committee's vacated CEO position. "Never in a million years had I thought about taking this job," he said. "The View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
ideas was one of the most useful things I learned." Ideas with Promise Johnston identifies these as new growth areas—and they're about more than just health care: The "quantified senior"—wearable... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
former managing director of State Street Research to become COO at Idea Village, also located in New Orleans, where he worked with more than 300 startups until 2013. “I’m an entrepreneur at my core,” explains Wilkins. View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
fine-tune and improve the application process, and this is an experiment to that end. We believe it will not only help candidates feel they are better understood by us but also help them gain a clearer idea of what the School is all about... View Details
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
and other personal effects amid the peripatetic military lifestyle gave Hall and some HBS classmates the idea for an online marketplace exclusively for military personnel, the New York Post reported (November 15, 2010). “The goal is to... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
class would be working in small business. François Glemet speaks for many of us in the profile he recently wrote for this year's reunion: "I have to admit that, back in '74, I did not have the remotest idea that this is how my life would... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Thinking Inside the Box
bought Maryland-based Atlas Container Corporation and began to think inside the box. “We had no idea what the box industry was about; we had no idea that there even was an industry,” said Peter. “But now,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
needs and expectations, using valuable information from the ongoing MBA and Executive Education surveys. Those surveys helped the committee identify program ideas targeted to specific age groups. The committee also developed a set of... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
menstrual pads by sourcing local, inexpensive raw materials, such as banana fibers. Launched in Rwanda, the businesses are owned and operated by women and can be replicated wherever need exists. The result is better health and hygiene for women, along with improved... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Elizabeth Dole dropped out of the race? It was partly a campaign finance issue. Whether you agreed with her policy ideas or not, her departure from the campaign was regrettable, as is the fact that women have not yet broken through the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry