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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
summer with a greater sense of urgency and purpose in dealing with racial equity issues? Dean Nitin Nohria wrote to our community about the School’s need to redouble its commitment to combat racism, and he asked Professor Jan Rivkin,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
definition—exactly where to go or maybe even how to get there. Instead, a leader needs to create a community that is willing and able to do innovative problem-solving.” Willingness to innovate depends on cultivating a shared sense of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
role that is part ambassador, part recruiter. “I will pay attention to job opportunities in the Greater China area,” he says, “and pass the information along to the club members and also coordinate when people from China come to campus,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
library—and no one was particularly keen on using it. The books, the guide informed Risher, came by boat, were often well out of date, and were of little interest to the children. So one day the building had been locked, and the key had... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Classics Enterprise
Robert Strassler (MBA ’61), a self-described “scholar without credentials,” worked for seven years on his own dime to produce an unlikely 1996 bestseller: The Landmark Thucydides, a reader-friendly version of the Greek philosopher’s famously dense and convoluted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 12 Oct 2010
- News
Underestimating Wealth Inequality
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
and personal finance curriculum to 5 million students. “It’s not just that (they) should save money. It’s about learning to make informed decisions, such as ‘should I go to college?’ And what are the tradeoffs for those decisions?” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Do, Wilfong's fundraising—through events like a children arts auction and a community 5K walk and run—allowed the nonprofit to make the same commitment to the 4th graders of the following year and each of the subsequent 5 years. By the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty IXP Taps into Cooperation, Innovation
In a new twist on the Immersion Experience Program (IXP), HBS professors from units across the School headed west for an all-faculty IXP in early January. Hosted by the University of California’s California Institute for Telecommunications and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
$1,550 for the family in less than 48 hours. “It was a truly rewarding and meaningful experience for both of us,” said Simmons. SmallCanBeBig.org, created by Boathouse Group, a Boston communications firm led by president John Connors (PMD... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed communication channels. There were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
understand what business is and can be doing, and then get that research out into the community of practitioners. BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Over the... View Details
Keywords: April White