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- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter that employees have the competency... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
monolith in the 1970s and ’80s. (For his part, Chidambaram confessed that when he arrived at HBS in the mid-1960s, he too was a “confirmed Socialist” and still was when he graduated. His views changed over time, he explained, when he... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
would not be on the modern woman's birthday, Christmas, or wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of Downton Abbey!" The book project became a big part of Wilson's life. "For several... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
who want to change the way health care is delivered. In 2010, she founded HealthTech Capital, a group of private investors interested in health tech startups. JULY 16 Héctor Masoero (PMD 58, 1989), chair of UADE, a private nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Orleans had been breached? Our employees had evacuated New Orleans, as they had in advance of previous storms. I left my home with only three changes of clothes. And when I heard that the city was filling with water, I thought, “OK,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
proud of the turbulence of our own making and the actions we took out of despair. This book sets out to change that. Belsky draws on his experiences building Behance, selling it, and then working as an investor and advisor to distill... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
about 30 million learning minutes a day, to about 85 million learning minutes per day. But then we also realized there was just a lack of leadership and an information gap on what should people be doing? What should parents be doing? What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies. Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who chairs the project’s Leadership Council and chairs the GSG (Global Steering Group) for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust, says that all companies deliver some positive impact through... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
of Business Administration; Emilie Billaud, assistant director; and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, research associate. The case explores how Unilever, the UK-based consumer goods giant, has implemented an initiative to accelerate the speed of View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
visitors today can enjoy guided tours and afternoon tea. But the idea of building a museum didn’t take shape until 2010, several years after he turned over Caldic’s leadership to his son Olav (AMP 169, 2005), who now serves as managing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
these organizations suffer from a leadership deficit? No, I wouldn’t put it that way. Many nonprofit leaders are fantastic, more than is acknowledged. They work hard, and they are very passionate about what they do. So I wouldn’t call it... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
company, Ventro, which provides services for online exchanges. While the gold rush days of the late 1990s may be over, there is still a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among HBS students, faculty, and alumni. “The View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
inclusive culture? And how should HBS change over the next 10 years to accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world?" The authors conducted some 60 interviews for the case, resulting in stories that run... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
of goods and services. Progress is slow, and estimates are that it will be years before any substantive change is seen. Some even fear that India’s escalating population will overwhelm any improvements. “India has very good software in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior associate dean for University... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunities to become change agents for society by creating pattern-breaking approaches and sustainable solutions, explains HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. Unlike business entrepreneurs who are motivated by profits, social entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice