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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have hit a mental wall,” Thakor... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
technical literacy is as foundational now as regular literacy. That’s going to give you a better workforce, and it’s not just for those in white-collar data analytics jobs. It’s also for the person working in the warehouse. You should be... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
father [Robert K. Merton, a National Medal of Science winner whose work in theoretical sociology at Columbia University has spanned fifty years] has been a strong influence in your life and your career. What did he say when you told him?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Kepha Partners Blinded by the Dot-Com Bust I looked at Data Domain (Series B) in 2003 and at Splunk (Series A) in 2004. At the time, we had just come through the dot-com boom and bust, and my firm and I were sitting on a lot of challenged... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on its science-enhanced... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
removing the middlemen and creating jobs at the same time. Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition partners with governments, funders, and private companies to shape policy and implement new ventures. For example, we founded Nourishing Africa, a funding, knowledge,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and Applied View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
path, clearly illustrating how the traditional power dynamic has inverted and why it matters for business survival. Bines offers six proven models you can use to cultivate and serve highly informed and empowered customers. Influence Is Your Superpower: The View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. (Today, the company—now Orbital ATK—is a $4.5 billion enterprise.) For NASA,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Women's Worth New U.S. Census data reveal that women entrepreneurs are changing the face of the economy. The performance of the women's business sector in recent years has surpassed that of U.S. business overall in several major areas,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
trying to show there’s always something we can do to make a difference.” APRIL 20 TIBCO Software CEO Dan Streetman (MBA 2000) is working with global organizations to provide real-time visual analytics and data View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
purchases, to time-of-day surfing, to domain name -- in order to develop a user profile. DoubleClick then uses this data to match Web users with advertisers. DoubleClick's Salzman explains it like this: "If you and I went to the same page... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
investors, but it’s really a struggle—especially for early-career entrepreneurs,” says Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb, a senior researcher in Business and Climate Change who co-edited a 2020 report on advancing science for sustainable ocean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
research, drawing parallels with their own work or experience. A case in point was HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's presentation, the first on the agenda. He reported on the initial results of a multination study of factors driving business performance in Asia. His... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes