Filter Results:
(1,138)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,962)
- News (1,138)
- Research (3,533)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (2,880)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,962)
- News (1,138)
- Research (3,533)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (2,880)
Sort by
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO
Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) has been named the new CEO of McDonald’s. Previously serving as McDonald's USA President, Kempczinski was instrumental in the recent turnaround of the iconic burger chain, a process which was detailed at length in a 2017 HBS Alumni Bulletin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
becoming open to a wider range of American citizens than was the case a half-century ago. A future volume would certainly include today's "stars," who are not white men only. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind. Hers is a rags-to-riches story, not only to great wealth but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
“They would have been happy if the work of only two of the four groups resulted in new products,” says Ross. Inventing the Future Looking back, Ross, 49, says that Project Platypus represented “an assimilation of all that I have done, of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want to see positive economic... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to nearby fossil fuel sources. That... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified agribusiness subsidiary of the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- News
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
Keywords: Artificial intelligence
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Crazy Days of Summer
invented the fad. Photos of their stunts (do not attempt in winter) had over 500,000 views just hours after being posted on their website. Leisure diving went viral, Foy said, because anyone with access to a pool or lake can do it.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The art of thinking creatively
art collection, a practice that enhances the inventive corporate culture. “People are responsive to them,” Schwartz says. His effort at HBS is a collaborative one, and plays out in annual buying trips to purchase works with an art... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Redesigning Schools for Today’s Learners
this generation of learners actually have what they need to compete in the global economy. But also [give them] the mindsets and skills they need to be successful over the course of their whole lives. To build successful families, successful communities, and basically... View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
director of Teach for America Miami-Dade before becoming CEO of Caribu, landed among the Inc Female Founders 100 list in 2019; Caribu made it to TIME Magazine’s best inventions of that year. Then, in March 2020, as people across the globe... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
telephone-television-Internet system." Given the success of the Internet, which the authors liken to "a kind of broadband on training wheels," they predict that as broadband technology evolves during the coming years, its power to revolutionize consumer behavior could... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
When More Is Better
One of the things I enjoy most about my job is learning about all the amazing undertakings of the School’s 70,000-plus graduates. HBS alumni, it seems, command a fair amount of media attention, much of it for business endeavors: running companies, launching start-ups,... View Details
Keywords: meta
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
hepatitis B from $20 to $1. “Close to consumers, they understand the local market and health-delivery infrastructure,” write Daar and Singer. “They have the potential to invent and develop drugs at far lower cost than northern biotechs... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
tweaked the menu to pay homage to barbecue’s roots alongside more inventive options. Today, there’s hickory-smoked pulled pork with a classic South Carolina mustard sauce on the menu; but Corsello’s creative barbecue takes top prize with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Jan 2016
- News
How Big Data Is Changing Disruptive Innovation
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. On April 16, video screens were glowing as spectators watched the finale of HBS’s annual New Venture Competition (NVC). COVID-19 turned the competition into a virtual affair, but the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him the first noninsider CEO in its... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry