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- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and business schools (he cofounded a laundry service at HBS), Wolfensohn landed in London during... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
transaction fees, advertising fees, application services fees, partnering revenue, and cross-subsidization (using revenue from selling applications to subsidize other components of the business). This is often the most difficult aspect of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Goldman Supports Case Method
from top business schools in emerging markets in 2000. Since then, more than 1,000 faculty from Latin America, China, Africa, and Central Europe have participated. Goldman’s support is part of its 10,000 Women initiative, which aims to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
however, entrepreneur Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993) has launched a nonprofit emergency response service that has saved thousands of lives and is destined to spread nationwide. Editor’s Note; Letters to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
producer (sex, lies, and videotape), and is a prolific author. Founder and chairman of the San Francisco–based Institute for Large Scale Innovation, he advises corporations and governments on innovation, organizational transformation, and View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
generating resources, it is at the same time about intensifying the commitment of alumni and friends, creating new supporters, and identifying emerging volunteer leadership. A campaign is inevitably a defining moment—an opportunity for... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
best practices. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a cofounder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard, led a case discussion focusing on selecting the right management tools to implement nonprofit strategy. Comcast COO Stephen Burke (MBA ’82) delivered the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Prize for Nonprofit Paper
“Managing Multi-Site Nonprofits,” by HBS professors Allen S. Grossman and V. Kasturi Rangan, has received the annual Editors’ Prize for the Best Scholarly Paper in the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership for 2002. This paper View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
January 4, 2010) “In transforming a home into just another investment, we have created a class of homeowners who treat their commitment to their homes much as they would treat any bad investment.” — HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas writing about the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
through specialized training, such as carpenters, electricians, and pharmacy technicians. In today’s tech-heavy work environments, however, apprenticeships should not be limited to these trade occupations, Fuller argues, noting that apprenticeships are View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
responded, as have entrepreneurs. Thus you see the emergence of craft-brewed beers, gourmet coffees, breads, and so forth, in addition to fine restaurants. Increasingly, chefs and restaurants are starting joint ventures with small, local... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
cooperation plays in social life. Professor Bazerman and colleagues discuss their work in social judgment, decision-making, and ethics. Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies edited by Arnold M. Howitt and Herman B. Leonard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
point is not whether public or private providers deliver the service but the efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness of that service,” says Jeremy Pelczer (AMP 162, 2002), president and CEO of American Water. “We agree that water is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
growth," said conference cochair William H. Swift (MBA 1974). The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce sponsored the opening reception at the Ritz-Carlton. The conference kicked off with an examination of trends and opportunities in emerging... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
working with our HBS clubs to develop and deliver an unprecedented Global Outreach Program that will send faculty to some fifty clubs around the world. Alumni clubs play a vital role in sustaining the HBS community while also enriching their own; many sponsor important... View Details