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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
Alvarez moderated a panel that offered solutions from the perspective of the alumni business community and industries addressing climate change on the ground.) Part of a global series of events produced by the HBS Business & Environment View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
mission to develop great general managers by capitalizing on the case method. In recent years, the School has added myriad initiatives that appear to celebrate complexity rather than strategic simplicity. Please draw these View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
earthquake, they were still so hospitable. It was a great opportunity for me to think about how to help them.” She returned to the United States, committed to making a deeper dive into social enterprise work. She landed at the Initiative... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunities? The most successful entrepreneurs I interviewed demonstrated that the key is to focus on finding customer problems first, and only then on searching for solutions that can help. “The real dividing line is simple,” explained... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members. Akin to having a personal board of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
initiatives feel as if they’re “done.” It’s like someone who thinks climate change is a real problem and buys a Prius and feels as if they’ve done their part and they’re done. The problem is not solved if everyone buys a Prius—it’s much... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
at the bottom of the pyramid so it makes good business sense — not a sense of do-gooding — to go after it.” Today, market forces, private-sector know-how, and grassroots initiatives such as microfinance are all being looked to as tools to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
to speed on these topics? In what way will this digital transformation affect alumni interactions with the School? We should be able to give them a much more customized experience. For example, we might ask alumni: Given your life stage... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
radical five-year company transformation sparked by a simple idea: “Employees First, Customers Second.” Through a series of initiatives, Nayar focused on developing new ways for employees to communicate, air their challenges and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
ice-cream fountain boasts a marble counter, and customers eat 100 percent buffalo burgers in a walnut-paneled dining room hung with original oil paintings by Western artists. In another part of the store, there are 1,400 historical photos... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Draper Fisher Jurvetson. While she recalls the administration initially voicing concerns that the contest might distract students from their studies, the trio persisted, offering solutions to concerns and securing sponsorship from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details