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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

could not be prouder of how the faculty, the students, and the staff have responded to all the challenges that we have faced. And I’m thinking about whether it is virtual teaching, remote working, hybrid classrooms, welcoming students back to campus, on every one of... View Details

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

30 Sep 2024
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The Making of a Streaming Sensation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington launched Grown &... View Details

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

with opportunities on the ground. They have also partnered with these organizations to attract $17 million in funding from national foundations to support reform in New Orleans. Q: What are the reactions of MBA students when you teach a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

the initial revenue projection for virtual Executive Education programming in fiscal 2021 was penciled in at what seemed like a realistic expectation: $0. But with the entire School community coming together, HBS adapted. Driven by... View Details

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) invested over $4 billion in 332 institutions, with more than 68 percent increasing their small business lending by 10 percent or more. The federal government also partnered with state governments... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

excited (and empowered!) to solve climate challenges, whether as a career or in their personal lives. We’re broadening our reach this year by partnering with the Energy & Environment Club and the Sustainability Club to host a joint... View Details

18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

Clubs News Clubs News Atlanta Alumni Step Up to Mentor Undergrads at Morris Brown The HBS Club of Atlanta is partnering with Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia on a new mentorship program that matches local MBA professionals from... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Dream Challenge (involving experts as solvers), we believe this work is unique in that it specifically recruited non-domain experts via the Topcoder platform. Lagace: How did you design and carry out the study? Why Topcoder? LISH team: Topcoder has a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310071-PDF-ENG George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A) Leslie A. Perlow and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 410-112 George Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

a peer at the senior management and board level. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. He or she should not think ill of technology-averse cultures and must be a skilled communicator who does not hide behind... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to... View Details

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

School Case 811-029 Bling Nation, a Palo Alto, California startup, was founded in 2007 as a mobile payment service provider that bypassed industry participants such as Visa and MasterCard. Bling Nation partnered with local View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

To transform lofty aspirations into quantifiable impact, nonprofits need to become more familiar with traditional business tools such as business plans, precise mission statements, and goal setting to improve their performance. That was the message from Jeff Bradach,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

plaster ceilings, skylights, and enormous wooden tables back to their original grandeur. The largest business library in the world, the new Baker Library is also designed to be an academic center, a place where visiting scholars discuss their work with students or... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

the partners' actions. To redress this imbalance, we conceptually disentangle cooperation and coordination in the context of inter-organizational collaboration and examine how the two phenomena play out in the partner selection, design,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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