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- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
As a student at HBS, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) lived on four dollars a day, teaching the martial arts discipline of Muay Thai and sending the extra cash home to his mother and brother in Bangkok. “Everything I owned could fit into a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color of your skin, gender, or sexual... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- News
Do the Things You Love
Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985, PhD BE 1988) is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. In this interview, she discusses the value of money versus personal satisfaction. “Money doesn't matter nearly as much as... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
experiences, but we're all in the LGBTQ+ community. Given that uniting factor, we're starting off with very large point in common, aside from being HBS alumni," says Yang, a member of the first East Coast LGBTQ+ Forum. "We probably do end up speaking about personal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
studied confidential daily diaries of knowledge workers in three industries. Data showed that making progress on projects and other matters at work drives employee engagement, creativity, and productivity. Recognizing even small wins... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
following a bike ride with his wife, Julie, on Sunday, Jan. 28. “As he wished, my father lived life to the fullest and passed away peacefully,” Moon said. At the time of his death, Uyterhoeven was the School’s Timken Professor of Business... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
With a father in the US Air Force, Vivian Hunt (MBA 1995) moved often as a young girl, living in places as far flung as Montana, Alabama, and Japan. That experience was difficult at times, but it developed her ability to engage across... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
currently has drugs in clinical trials for mela-noma and breast cancer, hopes to have its first products on the market as early as 2004. "I think we're going to see more people in the next decade who are living with cancer and thinking of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
discipline at an early stage. Certainly we’re glad now that we spent all that time focusing on the plan itself and on the basic economics of the business.” After graduation, the group headed to San Francisco to raise money and launch Bang Networks, which went View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
a very good idea.” “Serving in the military is a tremendous leadership experience,” Zak says. “Officers eat last. We are trained to understand that the lives of others matter more than ours. It’s about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. (Netflix also recently debuted Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Tina Fey–created comedy originally slated for NBC.) Even live sports, cable’s best hope for retaining subscribers, can be viewed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
likelihood of success was 15 percent at best. But by December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. What lies behind... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
celebrated. They're allowed to be creative. They're allowed to be spontaneous. A lot of things that we're missing in our everyday life get to happen at Burning Man as a matter of course. It's really wonderful to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
those communities. “This is not just a matter of social equity,” Terwilliger stated. “The shortage of workforce housing is compromising the economic well-being of our cities.” And for the residents of exclusive areas such as Hilton Head,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a global business environment." Where the Heart Is Along with food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable, safe housing is more than a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
changed significantly has been the result of our living in what has been described as a "radioactive neighborhood," that is, a region with a contagious economic flu. Real estate and labor costs are considerably lower, but economic growth... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
efforts,” notes Hammond, who, in the following conversation, talks about the School’s commitment to antiracism education and research, support for the Black and African American community at HBS, and opportunities to engage the broader... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
who started StopLift in 2003 after studying the matter as a student at Harvard Business School. Now with a staff of 200, the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based software company is deploying its ScanItAll Checkout Vision Systems to foil a wide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
aircrafts, vessels, and buildings; and translate a visual image (e.g., a pile of black rocks) into a number on a spreadsheet (e.g., tons of coal ready for shipment). And because they run not only on BlackSky’s terrestrial computers but... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
inefficiently — amounts that far exceed residential and personal use. And with the global population skyrocketing, the demand for water to sustain, feed, and employ the world’s people is projected to double by 2025. By that date, nearly half of the estimated population... View Details