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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
is poorly understood—we’ve known that for a while—it’s how surprised they are. I think what’s going on is this: Most executives, when they think about strategy focus on communication, and they measure communication in terms of the numbers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
Guaranty Trust Bank. “In addition to an information revolution, we need an ideological revolution that will change people's ideas about what is possible,” added Amadou Mahtar Ba, president of AllAfrica Global Media. Part of that change... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
provide an environment in which the private sector can do what it does best. That's why many donors focus on strengthening governance and developing the public sector's capabilities. How is the development community doing, in your view? I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from most Android phones automatically transmit faster and more... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
courage, about communities of underestimated women who rise to the moment in service to something greater. What was different with Daughters was the global implications of the story. You have a group of women fighting terrorists, as the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
frequently “turn against their own people” and a business community that too often “can’t stand on its own two feet.” Going forward, Obeid said, the focus should be on the 65 percent of the MENA population that is under 30 years of age,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Photography by Webb Chappell HBS students are already exceptionally skilled and accomplished people when they arrive at Soldiers Field. But perhaps their education here truly begins when they first understand — and are humbled by — what a remarkable View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Institute founded in honor of the iconic Chicago industrialist, which supports entrepreneurial projects that give back to the community or world. “I realized that project was me,” Skeete Tatum recalls. “There are millions of women who are... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Tom Vogl (MBA 1998) was named CEO of the Mountaineers, an 11,000-member outdoor community in the Pacific Northwest, in February 2016. A lifelong climber, the job gave Vogl... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Clean Air Act was one of the first and most influential federal environmental laws—and many in the business community saw benefits from a national strategy to combat pollution. Prof. Michael Toffel Prof. Michael Toffel Now, as the world... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
what they told their own children: ‘Why don’t you bloom where you were planted? Contribute to the community where you were raised. Markets are international. You can build from anywhere. You can sell anywhere,’” Sirois recalls. Sirois... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Daniel Bricklin [MBA '79] in an HBS classroom), to the extraterrestrial commerce of Orbital Sciences, to the development commitment of African Communications Group, HBS entrepreneurs, be they low-profile or household names, have... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
experience, reach more people, and build communities across HBS. Why is this important for the School? If we’re going to be the world leaders in business education, we can’t afford not to have this as a core competency. We have to be... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
90 percent ownership of a toilet or access to a toilet. So, you can build toilets, but how do you get people to use them? You have a huge communication exercise by government, by NGOs, by players, trying to ensure that people understood... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
challenge of introducing this nascent industry to the public. MK: I think DAC is still relatively new to people—both in this community and I think more broadly. So a lot of the work that we're doing around View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With deficient View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons