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- 14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots
that Curiel performed during his second year. Classmates and cofounders Chadd Garcia and Misha Simmonds joined his effort to test that idea following graduation. The RFDF’s “Mini MBA” program offers migrant students online courses in... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
ideas can come from anywhere — inside or outside, up or down an organization.” Sorrell, whose firm places up to one-third of all the advertising seen around the world, addressed the challenges WPP Group faces in developing a global... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different." To achieve that, the company follows a process that features a continuous series of brainstorming sessions, where new concepts are presented to a "product planning council" representing all parts of the organization, from engineers and operations experts to... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
be successful doing that and also be the kind of mom that I grew up with, which was a stay-at-home mom. So, we came up with the bright idea – actually, my husband encouraged me – to buy a small business. And I knew I wouldn’t be working... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Not-for-profits like Water Aid and the Bill Gates Foundation, others in the country. The idea of starting the India Sanitation Coalition emerged from that. Because what was needed was a platform where everyone could share their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
origins and evolution of the idea of the individual, finishing with the modern-day ideas of political theory and public policy. By identifying the key characteristics governments should either adopt or avoid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
It was a big step toward integrating me into the HBS community. I will be thankful to him for his kind gesture for as long as I live. —Ricardo Nicanor Jacinto (MBA 1986) McArthur excelled at identifying promising generators of ideas and... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
import-export. Watanabe went to school in Japan until the eighth grade before moving to America where he completed his higher education, joined McKinsey, and eventually returned to Japan. It was there he had an idea for a book, pitched to... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges
know what to do with me,” she recalls. That frustrating experience planted the idea for ProInspire, though it would be several years later before it came to be. In 2009, the nonprofit launched with five fellows, and last year 25 fellows... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Connecting people and policymakers in a conversation online
but our voices matter every day.” The Agora gives participants the opportunity to express concerns, “vote” in polls, and exchange ideas amongst themselves and with political leaders. With pilots running in collaboration with Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
said that the foundation’s strategy is to give poetry “a more vigorous presence. Instead of simply writing checks to poets, our idea is to grow the number of readers” (San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2004). View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
examines August Thyssen and the management of his Thyssen & Co., Thyssen-Konzern, and Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) from 1871 to 1936. He disproves the idea that German business management was backward and rigid until it... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- News
Cracking the Code
Bubble, which is designed to help people turn their ideas into startups and which was cofounded by Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012), received $100 million in Series A funding, according to TechCrunch. The company’s click-and-drag interface... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
companies don’t find success but still have valuable IP. That IP tends to be lost, or picked up for little money by companies that don't contribute to the competitiveness of the technology industry,” says Laguë. “I like salvaging them, then selling them to big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
arguing the validity of one’s ideas in an HBS classroom to winning the allegiance of troops in the military: “When you’re a 23- or 24-year-old lieutenant with 350 people reporting to you, many of whom are older, you have to be able to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
the number of participants needed, and what incentives to provide. In most instances, he recommends that “an organization’s internal problem solvers should define the parameters of a challenge rather than attempt to solve it, encourage diverse View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
Idea Village, an anchor organization for the emerging entrepreneurial movement in New Orleans, Markowitz (MBA 2003) struggled to find a decent job there. With an HBS degree and a background in corporate finance, she seemed overqualified... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
an MBA?” The rest, as they say, is history. While that little ad led to a big change in Kuhns’s career trajectory, he found an outlet for his creative side in writing China Fortunes. “I had noticed over the years that people are fascinated by China, and I always had... View Details