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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Welcome to Tanzania, the self-described “home of the safari” situated on the Indian Ocean in East Africa. Visitors come to see Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding peak in the world; the Serengeti National Park; the Ngorongoro... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
where they’ve built 20 schools over the last four years. It’s a measured response to a national catastrophe. Dyson says that 8,000 schools were damaged by the earthquake. They can’t fix them all, but that’s not the point. “Don’t get... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
earthquake, they were still so hospitable. It was a great opportunity for me to think about how to help them.” She returned to the United States, committed to making a deeper dive into social enterprise work. She landed at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
nationalistic pride and identity but also allows them to leverage monetary policy, one of the most significant tools that governments have to affect their economies. However, we’ve seen countries like Ecuador getting rid of their national... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
temporary hospital facilities for the Medical City and the National Kidney Institute, particularly staff housing, to free up space within the hospital premises for COVID-19 treatments. At quarantine capacity, FPH is working with the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
entrepreneurship and STEM subjects in a major at college," says Earls. "It's an opportunity to marry technical disciplines with entrepreneurial spirit. The future of this nation will require technical skills and the thinking of... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
on the ground, supporting our faculty in their research and bringing a global perspective to our classrooms. Through this network, HBS faculty can quickly get insights into global developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and how different View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
2001), a founding member of Leadership Now, formed the Election Support Corps, a partnership between Leadership Now and the National Vote at Home Institute (VAH) to support the safety and security of the 2020 election cycle. Working with... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
acclaim as Harvard Female Athlete of the Year. Yet, despite all that, when the talented point guard was approached to play professionally in Europe at the end of her senior year, she recalls, “It had never occurred to me that I could play professional basketball.” In... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
and companies tax breaks, rebates, and higher-density building allowances for installing green roofs. Chicago, a national leader in green roof installation, now has more than 400 constructed or planned green roofs in the downtown area.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
the high-tech industry? Growth. I had learned as a banker [at Philadelphia National Bank] that most career opportunities are presented by areas that are growing quickly, and the personal computer industry fit that description. I was also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Elevate The book explains the fault lines that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes some... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
his involvement in the circus to his other interests, Slifka observes that "the circus is something you feel with your belly, not with your head. And belly stuff is where humans connect." His eyes light up and his smile broadens as he talks about the annual United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Small Business Administration and Bank of Boston, the center opened its doors in 1995. That year the budget was $350,000; today it is $2.5 million. “Our growth has been slow and steady,” Silbert notes with pride. “We don’t plan to expand View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
after the fall of Saddam Hussein. After the United Nations headquarters was bombed in Baghdad, most UN officials and nongovernmental organization (NGO) workers fled the country. That left the US military tasked to build schools and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
a national second-opinion service it has to scramble to find staff doctors who have certifications in all the states even though the clinic is a preeminent medical center. There are a striking number of other examples such as this where... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose... View Details