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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
it doesn’t last too long, because it changes the whole idea of hospitality. Right, I was just thinking about masks, and how they prevent us from reading each other’s expressions easily. Yet one of the best things about staying in a hotel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
employees and their families to a cookout. The idea was that in the middle of this train wreck people could do something normal that would give them hope. You clearly put people ahead of the business in the aftermath of the storm. Had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
innovation was the introduction of user fees, an idea sparked in part by a spate of climbing mishaps on Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park that had sent rescue and recovery costs soaring. (Recalls Cohen: “Hard-core climbers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman, in providing the gift for this remarkable new building, had... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
School. There was a range of feelings about the fact that out of a class of 700 students there were only 6 African Americans. LAMBERT: We had absolutely no idea of whether Dean Baker would be receptive to even discussing a change with us,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know you’ve managed to say something relevant and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Salute to 1998
pages, as well as to all of the members of the Class of '98 who are now part of the HBS alumni family, the Bulletin offers its congratulations and a warm welcome. photography by Webb Chappell Chai Ling — The Meaning of Freedom Mark Tatum — Leading Player Lisa... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
bottom-line results to one fixated on risk taking and creativity. Immelt is convinced that the company’s future lies in creating a culture that fosters blockbuster ideas and world-class marketing. “It’s a different era,” he explained to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded
it’s usually cash. Harris received his engineering degree at Purdue University, where he joined a campus group of black engineers who supported one another. In his senior year, Harris took the idea nationwide by cofounding the National... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
fall short, but it’s an important idea that resounds to this day. One of the particular things that the founders did back in the 1990s that turned out to be very important was to put focus on social entrepreneurship—which is about... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
Video Embed At the 2016 New Venture Competition finale 12 teams competed from 3 tracks for more $225,000 in cash prizes. The opening video portrays inspiring companies founded by HBS graduates and students to show that one simple idea can... View Details
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
impactful as an adult,” crediting Professor Michael Tushman’s ideas for the inspiration and title of his TED talk, “The Ambidextrous Opera Company.” In a recent episode of the Atlanta Opera podcast The Business of Opera, Zvulun talks to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his View Details
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Performance: How America’s High-Growth Midsize Companies Succeed, encountered the idea for the center in a local newspaper and ran with it. Now the center educates more than 150,000 visitors a year and includes a unique network of... View Details
- 18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal (both MBA 2020) arrived at HBS with an idea driven by necessity. With student loans a hard reality of graduate student life, why not bundle their loans with those of other incoming MBAs and pass the... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both US coasts and over $3 billion... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5950.html. Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings Saving money doesn’t need to be so difficult. According to Professor Peter Tufano, “The most interesting ideas — indeed the oldest — try to make saving a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
whose jobs rely on getting ideas to market. All of a sudden, you’re not in the car business. You’re in the business of being fast. Local Motors’ 3D-printed car, the Strati, takes about 44 hours to print and has an electric engine that can... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
connected the two women. “We both embraced the idea of health and education coming together,” recalls Liu. After several years of research, Liu and Chan developed three guiding principles, which Liu says sets the school, funded by the... View Details