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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
HBS. While the world of work is nothing new to either of these young alumni, they each acknowledge the significance of this initial year in their post-HBS careers. Although they came to Soldiers Field with different backgrounds, goals,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
where he found inspiration for his entrepreneurial inclinations from Professor Georges F. Doriot, a venture capital pioneer. “My father brought me up to work for myself, never to be part of a large organization working for a salary,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost, time-tested efforts to improve child... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
how to work with a diverse group of people in a situation where you are not the boss. You have to lead with your ability, passion, and conviction," says Austin. His findings also indicate that corporate involvement in the community not only provides nonprofit View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the whole world of nature,” she once said. Years later, Carson—a quiet, reserved woman who trained as a scientist—would find her voice as a writer, publishing essays and books about nature’s delicate interrelationship with humankind. For... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Alumni Board. She was previously the founding director at the Common Room. Choosing my favorite book feels a bit like choosing my favorite kid, but I’d say Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard. It gives an impressively imaginative perspective on the View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
years ago, pretty homogeneous. And leaving for the first time living somewhere else, and just realizing how expansive the world is, how diverse the world is, how many different types of people there are,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
to emerging leaders—from Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z—to lead their organizations authentically through never-ending crises to make this world a better place for everyone. The Emerging Leader Edition is... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
provides a salve to a population where, due to lack of access, only 27 percent have a bank account—a number that drops to 12 percent in the lowest-earning 40 percent of the population, according to the World Bank. This is the kind of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
tradition in architecture when it gave him its Stanford White Award. In his current role of directing real estate investments for his family’s Samson Investment Partners, Zuckerberg works to stay grounded in the sky’s-the-limit world of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
“HBS has always been good at running experiments — reinforcing the ones that make progress and killing the ones that don’t,” says HBS professor of management practice Joseph B. Lassiter, who, together with Sahlman, worked with student View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other sorts of workers. These people help build communities and keep them stable and functioning; they deserve to be able to live where they serve." Build It and They Will Come With the federal government's involvement diminishing,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
block, is clad in marble, some 325,000 square feet of it. More than 40 types of the stone were imported from around the world for the facade and the building’s vaulted three-story lobby. The windows—1,800 of them—are rimmed in bronze. Its... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and structural changes in the View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
from every other life form on the planet. (The “old” brain—that lower rear 30 percent—is responsible for more rote behaviors and drives: breathing, heartbeat, reflexes; anger, hunger, sex.) And this is how we learn—by moving through the View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
scientific advancement, team-building, and international cooperation. And the goal had never been a world record for one man. “We want to open the door for future exploration by science and business,” Vescovo later explained.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on a decade of systematic research... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details