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- 15 May 2020
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the next 10 years deploying everything I've learned—the mistakes I've made, the experiences I've had—on making this world a better place." For Ive, that meant turning all his business know-how toward addressing climate change and other major problems. In 2018, Ive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there was no place for egos — only... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Books; bookstore and publishing house founder I fell in love with reading when I read Charlotte’s Web as a little girl and it made me cry. I realized then that books can really make you feel. But it can be hard to make time for books in a busy life. I have View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United States in 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
fortitude of these four men. Are We French Yet? Keith & Val’s Adventures in Provence by Keith Van Sickle (MBA 1985) Dresher Publishing A continuation of Van Sickle’s One Sip at a Time: Learning to Live in Provence, this book tells of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Business School got a big break in 1928. That story is revealed in “The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924–1933),” the first of several exhibitions in Baker Library marking the Centennial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
successful?” “One of the big things in recruitment is figuring out how to attract employees who reflect the people we are trying to serve. For instance, one of our core areas is criminal justice. Today, one in View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
and controlling stakes in the company. “It seemed we were a big fish to eat, and everybody wanted a piece of us,” she told the audience with a wry grin, going on to describe how the three fought to keep control of the corporation.... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
intent is not to discover the next big idea,” Rangan says, “but to find models that business can use to engage with the base of the pyramid.” In December 2005, the GPP convened a three-day colloquium, “A Conference on Global Poverty:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers were stranded at the bottom of the job ladder. In 2000, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
years. Research by our own George Baker (and George David Smith) shows that until the mid-1990s KKR, for example, had an average holding period of over six years, with very few under four years. And while this average has probably... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Learning Curve
1997, as an experiment, with just four students. Katie and three others would benefit from both individualized attention and interaction with other children. Jerome Rosner, an optometrist and University of Houston professor (who passed... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
In 2018, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) launched Big Ideas Ventures to find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm’s first fund... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
draws on interviews with 120 people—to explore how retiring involves a reconstruction of both the person and their life structure. You’ll gain wisdom on the common themes and the wildly different approaches people take to the four View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
showing that vibration at a precise frequency stimulates bone growth and improves bone density, OsteoBoost will be coupled with an app to track daily use and encourage good nutritional habits. The Why: One in four American men and half of... View Details