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- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the natural resources for using water,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
of hindsight because the fact that the foam strike was to blame isn’t general knowledge.” A four-person production team led by HBS multimedia producer Melissa Dailey played a vital role in the yearlong collaborative process of creating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
friend and CassVita cofounder, Nembu Emmanuel, saw that scenario as “a space for innovation” that could improve the lives of farmers by maximizing the amount of produce they can bring to market. Ajanoh and Emmanuel leveraged their... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
Erica Santoni Photo courtesy of Erica Santoni “HBS has helped me imagine the path to becoming a diversity and inclusion officer within a company—a role that doesn’t exist in Italy, where I’m from. It also broadened my views on what we can do to View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan The mission of Educate Girls, a nongovernmental organization in Mumbai, is to get 3 million out-of-school girls in India into the classroom and to provide remedial education. To do that they first have to find the girls, which is a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
feedback from taxpayers and employees as well as measures of meaningful business results, was a critical step in changing attitudes. How did you improve customer service? There were no quick fixes or silver bullets. The IRS had to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
process large amounts of data. But how can the strengths of each be combined for maximum benefit? Citing the latest neuroscience and his research with experts in mind-machine combination, Prensky shows how smart people are learning to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
organizations large and small; Professor Michael E. Porter will offer his latest thinking on strategy and the need to move beyond simple "best practice" improvement to actually establishing a unique competitive position; Professor William... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
“Schools need to keep evolving to stay relevant,” Condo observes. “You need to innovate, evaluate, and then apply lessons from that process to whatever you decide to add or change the next year. INCAE has really embraced that concept. If... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
Below the surface of the roller coaster political negotiations in the Middle East, a new process is quietly being played out. It is a process in which economics, not politics, is the focus, in which... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
coming out of labs over the next 10 years will surpass anything we’ve experienced in the past,” says HBS senior fellow Richard Hamermesh, who co-chairs the accelerator with Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985). “Looking ahead, we expect to have the ecosystem in place to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
approved.” Like Hefner, other innovators in Harris’s pantheon never get dulled by the details. Southwest Airlines cofounder Herb Kelleher was known to personally load baggage to improve employee morale. Walt Disney, as much of a business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
an expected GDP drop of only 0.6 percent for 2009 despite the recession. Areas that need improvement are infrastructure and reduced dependence on imported electricity. We should also, I believe, invest heavily in tourism to make Macedonia... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
My experience in the 25 years I've been in this business is that improved access to information creates more, not less, demand. Information technology, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders have all contributed to an increased... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
insights to execute a more compelling product or service is a best practice we’ve studied in cases about certain companies, and it is definitely one of Randal’s strengths,” Martin said. Thomke described what he calls Randal’s “3Ms of innovation”: Methodology (Since... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
and started to talk about how we could improve the situation. “We ended up with an idea of starting a smaller university focused to low-income students coming from the really poor families who were high achievers during high school. We... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
charity, to improving the well-being of communities in the developing world. SHE’s first spin-off venture addresses the widespread phenomenon of girls and women missing school or work when they are menstruating because they lack access to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
improve teaching across the faculty. The center is named after C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 3/’43, DCS ’53), a much-loved HBS faculty member who had a powerful impact on HBS students and faculty as well as educators around the... View Details