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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
1970s," says Andrews, "a number of firms, many headed by HBS alumni, set an example for other companies by eliminating racial discrimination and, in certain cases, by deliberately ignoring discriminatory laws." Andrews notes that several... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
ability to feel like they can fully participate in the experience. MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES After months of work, in April 2020, the task force presented a comprehensive report to then-Dean Nitin Nohria that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
indicates that the number of Latinx businesses getting started is astounding,” says Perez. He adds that, according to the report, the Latinx community is among the most entrepreneurial segments of the US population, starting more... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
in a number of School activities, from teaching in a program for faculty members from foreign business schools, to serving as the School's first Associate Dean for External Affairs, to acting as a contributing editor of the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
the entire IRS database of almost 700,000 nonprofits. Its leaders believe this strategy helps “democratize” the giving process. Others, such as Working Assets, include a much smaller number of organizations. How to capture revenue is the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
educations together as a health care investor. As managing director of KBL Healthcare Ventures, she has invested in a number of groundbreaking companies, including Summit Technologies and the Candela Corporation, now a leading maker of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
this is so good, and it’s just one calorie.’ But there’s also a significant number of people who are picking up on something more. You can buy Häagen-Dazs ice cream. But it’s easier to relate to Ben Jerry’s. I do believe that matters.” View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
class, there was a big dispute about the numbers in a case. Those who got the wrong answer had rounded off a number and then multiplied it by a large number That explained the... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
number one. I think the second one would be don’t leave HBS without being really clear with respect to what the bar is for the kind of senior executive role that you aspire to 10, 15, 20 years down the road. Obviously HBS is fantastic at... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
number might sound small, but it's actually quite large, considering that the Paris climate goals ask us to try to reduce global emissions by 7 percent year on year for the next 10 years to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
us, myself included, the recognition of different lifestyles and cultures was useful, particularly when thinking about marketing. In the curriculum, we now have far more and shorter courses than when I was an MBA, I suppose in response to the growing View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
succeeded in boosting the number of Republicans in the Texas congressional delegation. Part of the reason Edwards has been a political survivor is because he’s a “different kind of Democrat than most national Democrats are,” says Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
algorithms,” says Polli. “Which means [the algorithms] will recommend an equal number of men and women and a group that is proportional across ethnicity.” This is something, she notes, that an algorithm can just do better. “We like to say... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
This raises a number of questions about who pays a lot...and who pays a little. Can sellers take low-cost subtle actions that will get the people who pay a little to pay a little bit more? Past research on social value orientation shows... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Clinton Administration. Since joining Habitat, Spencer has overseen a significant uptick in activity. In FY 2012, construction starts numbered 80; in the first four months of FY 2014, production is on pace for 125 annual starts—without a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
revenues of $7.7 billion in 2007. She is particularly proud that 1.3 million people make some part of their living selling things through eBay. “Our concept has been to make a small number of rules and get the heck out of the way so that... View Details