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- 15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
comprehensive, regional planning and as only one element in a complex mix of interrelated socioeconomic factors. "A lot of businesses that are concerned about the problem have concluded that the best way... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
effectively with each other, with executives and stakeholders, to ensure all views on key topics such as conduct, risk and strategy, are canvassed, heard and evaluated. While Part 1 is mainly about why directors should be View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
of the Democratic National Committee. On the face of it, Tobias’s statement that “we HBS alums are by now almost all Democrats.... Some of us just don’t know it,” is absurd and, to us, offensive. Tobias makes bold and unsupported statements View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
beginning to recognize many of the same concerns that other sectors face, such as the effect of work-life balance issues on women and the “double bind”—the tension between the perception of competence and likability. “What’s different... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
fault," she says. "And what we've learned here is that maybe it is in your best interest to apologize. If it helps when you are clearly not at fault, it may also help when blame is ambiguous." —Dan Morrell "I'm Sorry About the Rain!... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. There's this Teddy Roosevelt quote about struggle that I came across recently that I really like. Roosevelt said, "There's never... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Meanwhile, graduates are snapped up by financial, consulting, and other leading firms at ever-increasing starting salaries. So where’s the rub? Despite these positive indicators, there are deep-rooted concerns View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Trustees of Reservations? Since I started only last April, much of what I'm doing now is getting to know the organization. Eventually I will probably spend about half my time fundraising, because I think I can be a persuasive advocate,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
positions in youth soccer, as well as a land trust and a historic preservation commission in her western New Jersey community. "I gather there had been some internal controversy about accepting women, from... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
A Conversation with Nancy Koehn Koehn Photo Courtesy Nancy Koehn Editor’s Note: The Story of American Business itself has a back story. Explains Jacqueline Murphy of Harvard Business Press: “About five years ago, after we held discussions with the New York Times View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
became especially concerned about local air and water quality when their first child was born in 1988. Together, they helped found the Environmental Media Association, designed to encourage writers,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
guessing where this might be going. “Let’s not.” Joe left the room briefly, and then returned with two long gray pillows off the couch in the TV room. He handed one to McArthur, who still had the oversized frame of the football player he had been a half-century... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
of women being admitted to the School's full-time MBA Program, we invited the HBS alumni community to identify alumnae who stood out as leaders, mentors, and role models. From several hundred suggestions, we asked a cross section of women to share thoughts and advice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
called them. In fact, he was just now planning an expedition to a blank area of southeast Alaska. But a summit higher than Everest? Carpé flipped through the book to learn more about the mountain better known as Minya Konka, but the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
projected for years to come. Deficits of a trillion dollars a year cannot be sustained indefinitely. China, our largest creditor, is already very concerned about the dangerous U.S. fiscal situation. If we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
would pay attention.” “It was always so much fun to talk to Ted, because his brain never stopped,” remarks HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. “His mind was truly creative, truly visionary. There was a freshness and exuberance about him,... View Details