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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
wondered whether she should pack up and go home. Not that she had a home to return to. That was the problem. The day before Thompson moved into Chase Hall on August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina had flooded the New Orleans home of her childhood, filled with heirlooms and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
Foundations is organized to build community by allowing each student to meet virtually every other student in the cohort. Foundations begins with a simulation in which students inherit a failing business and must turn it around using... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. If you know something is not forever, what would you do differently? A lot of things, it View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
or e-mailed her after an online flirtation, and extracted honest, raw answers. It turned out men leave women hanging for clear, consistent reasons. Citing anecdotes and case studies, this book examines the most frequent date-breakers and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
babies on the “no fly” list. It’s searches and racial profiling at airport security. It’s suspicious looks from neighbors. We experience this where we work and live. And then we turn on the nightly news and we see hatred, like the pastor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
experiences that often suggest interesting lines of research for our faculty to pursue. It’s a virtuous circle: Academics study business practice and practitioners, their research “product” then influences practice, which in turn leads to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the proposals. A double-blind process allowed reviewers to see how others had graded the proposal and then offered them the option of changing their scores. About 47 percent of the time, reviewers decided to update their initial scores. More importantly, the study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
core theme behind Bookalokal events." Where's the company today? "We've done really well in our first test city of Brussels. It turns out travelers are not the only ones interested in our site. Local people love it—particularly people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
runner-up in the social enterprise category of the HBS Business Plan Contest. They used the $5,000 cash prize and the same amount in services from The Bridgespan Group to turn their business plan into a reality. They garnered support from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
HBS entered fiscal 2010 with an aggressive plan to reduce costs in anticipation of a prolonged period of diminished revenue in the wake of the global financial crisis. But when the books closed last June, the School’s financial performance for the year View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
when we bought that business, turned it around, and had success.” And success for Granite Equity doesn’t mean just keeping business local and in the Minnesota family; it’s also about the bottom line. Edeburn observes, “We had done well... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to 24-year-olds in urban areas can't find... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
Entrepreneurship was not scaling the foundational teaching upon which the center was built. With his new book, See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success, Warshay is bringing his process to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
important,” he says. “We hope it will inspire a new generation of players and fans—and turbocharge soccer in America at all levels.” As for the men’s team’s untimely fall, Cordeiro sees it as a turning point. But a year into his tenure at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
inexperienced GM Peter Chiarelli, who played hockey at Harvard, who in turn hired good people around him. I think a big step was bringing in former Bruins star Cam Neely as president. His reputation alone from wearing a Bruins jersey... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
for managing a complex organization. Where can we find such a person?” It turns out that an HBS graduate filled the bill. Brock Reeve (MBA ’88), a nonscientist, was hired in 2006 as HSCI’s executive director in large measure because of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
emulators — turned out to be just the right size. It’s not too small — we’re growing nicely — but not too big, so there aren’t a lot of other people in it. What I’d like to do over: We were very hands-on in the beginning. We might have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
first-ever for teenagers, was inspired by the success of a preteen program begun in 2003. After turning the discussion to favorite products (portable CD players were popular) as well as to others that didn’t work so well (toasters came in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
that don’t turn up in their financial reports. So how is a consumer—or an investor or board of directors, for that matter—to know how well a purpose-driven company is really doing on any of these metrics? “The fact of the matter is that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint