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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
ago, and he’s now its COO. Zagat (pronounced “zuh-GAT”) worked for the company while at HBS and came up with the idea of introducing nightlife guides, which have become a successful part of the business, the Boston Globe reported (July... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
faculty office building) and Baker Hall (now Esteves), a residence hall for Executive Education participants. Typically, he left nothing to chance. According to a 1993 article in Harvard Magazine, “Professor Uyterhoeven resurrected the View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has just completed its winter meeting on campus, the second of three such gatherings we have each year. While January in Boston might not be everyone's idea of a good time, I can assure you... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
common errors or biases in decision-making and ideas for overcoming or avoiding them. "Smart Choices should be relevant and accessible to all MBAs," says Raiffa, adding a bit whimsically, "and to all non-MBAs as well." On Competition by... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
While working as an intern at LinkedIn, Ben Faw (MBA 2014) took advantage of the company’s InDay—an opportunity one day a month at work where one can explore new ideas or volunteer in the community—to support veterans. Faw, a veteran of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
contacted the 705 alumni who took part in the Business Plan Contest between 1997 and 2004. The survey’s 269 respondents reported starting 254 enterprises, with nearly 200 businesses still up and running and generating $550 million in sales and employment for some 6,500... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
replicate the idea in his home country of India, Ghose studied ReFood’s model, spoke to its founder, and took that knowledge home to two friends. One evening in August of 2014, the small team hit the streets of New Delhi with food for 150... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) My entire career has been a series of pivots: a friend who convinced me to join his firm, a conversation on an airplane that turned into a new job, a middle-of-the-night View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
In the early 1990s, Gloria Lara (MBA 1983) found herself in a debate with five male engineers on Chrysler’s development floor as they tossed around the idea of two sliding doors for the minivan, as opposed to only one on the right-hand... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
still in progress. The idea is “making the most powerful data tools practical and accessible to practitioners,” he says. To do that effectively, they need to be as close to the process as possible, Paul says. Most of the 160-person... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
putting his ideas into action. At a high level, he has led a restructuring of the organization’s all-volunteer board, creating technical and commercial committees to focus on strategy and better involve the board members in the goal of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
various schools develop “precinct plans,” to serve as a long–range vision of physical change and growth. The recently completed HBS precinct plan suggests possible development ideas along the southern edge of the campus, where the parking... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
develop listening, communication, and feedback skills, Moon explained. While the Required Curriculum reflects an institutional philosophy that all first-year students need a common knowledge base, the Elective Curriculum presents students with “an incredible... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
transformation officer at the Carlyle Group, began work to put all those influencers together in what they called Culture Shifting Weekends, held annually in Silicon Valley and New York City. The idea was to celebrate Culture Shifters and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
moral issue in the end. But to solve the problem, we first have to define it properly. Then it’s for the American people and their leaders to decide what they want to do with the findings.” America has written and spoken widely about his views, even as the View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
contribute to a majority of the company’s U.S. profit and with a strategic focus on embedding women’s ideas and contributions in product development, Campbell has delivered cumulative total shareowner returns above the company’s peer... View Details