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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
women 100% of the open seats and potentially create more openings: Interview the women first. It doesn’t need to be tested by the FDA before corporate boards across America try it. Trewstar has done it over 30 times, and it always works. The key ingredient is having... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
management careers and management problems were carved up by function,” he continues. “A typical manager would spend his entire career within one function — say marketing, finance, or accounting — and he would be given only a piece of a... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
and other pressing issues. The diverse audience emphasized the universal nature of the challenges and opportunities facing women in business today, while fostering rich discussions across cultural and generational lines. Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
student creators and signers of the new MBA Oath that pledges ethical business behavior a step ahead of the schools that they attended? Datar: The oath is valuable, but business schools need to do more. They need to help students be more reflective and think about... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
Education, a nonprofit that provides grants to support innovative, evidence-based practices in K–12 education. Because problems such as homelessness and underperforming schools have multiple causes, Shumway... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
solid plans to grow or expand. Instead of one-on-one consultations, SBP clients meet virtually with a small team of four or five alumni. “It’s like an advisory board for small businesses,” says Octavius. “They get access to top CEOs. They have View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
prominent African business leaders, including several HBS alumni who shared insights on macroeconomics, strategy, leadership, and execution relevant to Africa. The webinars were targeted to a business audience and emphasized... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
was created intentionally by those three things that I just mentioned. They were all government-sanctioned. And that until we close that wealth gap, there will always be problems between the Black and the white community. I believe that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
1962, described changes in the first-year curriculum aimed at instilling in students "the instinctive acceptance of responsi-bility . . . for the problems of the community in which the student operates." He asserted, "We must help make... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
like Gone with the Wind, a theater owner simply had to screen the movie for people to line up around the block. Today, with movies showing at multiple times and locations, to say nothing of the dizzying array of entertainment options, the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
multiple centers for a broader exploration of a topic. For example, this past year, the centers coordinated more than 50 interviews in 10 countries to help Professor Rafaella Sadun examine how resilient businesses can effectively and... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
conversation around how analytics are used in the sports and entertainment business.” The job draws on her experience as an athlete, her MBA degree and undergraduate psychology major, and a fascination with technology-based problem... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
videos this morning.” Balancing act: “In leadership, there’s a tension between getting good information from multiple stakeholders and a more top-down approach, where you trust your intuition, take a minority point of view, and run with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Robotics. “We wanted to focus on the leadership questions around AI, especially on how AI is applied to business today,” says Chow, who used AI to generate a fictitious HBS case with a protagonist in Hong Kong facing the problem of how to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data is precisely that it will lead... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Companies also are becoming more aware of the need to capture what data they can through first-party cookies, by creating value through content. He offers the example of the website Glossier, whose strategy is focused on serving its View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
problem with this hugely successful model—one that, by some estimates, can be credited for more than one-third of marriages in the United States between 2005 and 2012: The experience of online dating is often awful, especially for young,... View Details
Keywords: April White