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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
all, so many other people that have had minor things go on. Can use that as a gift too. And so I hope that people can use this to inspire other people the way Chad is. That's why I wrote about him in my book, to see the beauty of someone... View Details
- 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
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
most-in-demand option, with 80 percent of the US workforce in need of that minor flexibility. “That means three out of four people who have a doctor’s appointment or a parent-teacher conference or need to let in a handyman actually can’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
fall eager to hone their leadership skills, gain practical knowledge, and meet fellow students from myriad backgrounds. Meanwhile, the Class of 2002 embarked on new careers. Despite the downturn in the economy, recent graduates landed on their feet. Statistics for each... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
and applying to business school. HBS Outreach While it's too soon to measure these specific initiatives, the overall philosophy behind outreach to young leaders is clearly working. For years, MBA Admissions has held an on-campus Summer Venture in Management Program... View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Minority Executives in Corporate America. From 1993 to 1998, he taught and developed materials for the widely subscribed second-year elective, Self-Assessment and Career Development. The course uses cases, experiential exercises, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor or taxes—are relatively View Details
- 15 Nov 2019
- News
Diversity as a Driver of Performance
really focused on is what I call a kind of diversity 2.0,” he says. A generation ago, everyone was focused on increasing the numbers of women and minorities on the staff and in leadership. But today Zeitlin is more interested in creating... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners. Later, with the support of Sealed Air and his wife, Joan, a former English professor, he pledged to fund a college education for students in a sixth-grade class in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Distributing dreams with a curatorial eye
studio Lionsgate owns a minority stake in his company. Seeing so many interesting films struggle to make it into a theater was his impetus for starting Roadside. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it, but you... View Details
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
partner of a tech firm in Winnipeg to help Yazidis leave refugee camps in Syria and Turkey to start new lives in Canada. Five hundred members of this ancient ethno-religious minority were killed by ISIS in the 2014 onslaught. Women and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
in the growth of retail medical centers, too. If they are conveniently located, people will take care of minor medical issues, such as an ache, or a mole that might be cancerous. Most people also prefer them to hospitals overwhelmed with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Japan was most competitive internationally — such as cars, video products, and robotics — government played a relatively minor role. By contrast, the country was least competitive in industries such as chemicals, aircraft, and software... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
More Than a Game
Above: photo by Peter Taylor Fernando Aguirre (PPL 2009) owns the Erie SeaWolves minor league baseball team, and he runs it with the same management strategies he employed during his career in consumer goods. One is a hands-on approach:... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by function. View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
as a commodity and an investment. Japanese culture has always valued art and incorporated it into nearly everything, Shibayama notes. Something as minor as the gift wrapping on a box is usually carefully considered and meticulously... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
The Lines That Divide America
exchange for hard work is now both limited and unevenly granted,” he writers. “Worse yet, white working-class citizens perceive others—mainly minorities and immigrants—to be unfairly cutting ahead of them in line. And members of the white... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria