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- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
"Devin." - Me and my brother were walking down a trail, and we're both smoking some meth. He said something to me, and it set me off. And I picked up a tree limb. I started hitting him with it. Busted his head open. I think it broke one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
What Makes Israel Tick?
Israel is a paradox. It’s small, lacking in natural resources, preoccupied with security, and highly diverse. Yet it generates an outsized number of start-ups, attracts huge sums of venture capital, lures... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
inefficient markets efficient”—intrigued Whitman enough to move her family across the country for what the less adventurous might have considered a risky endeavor. Whitman’s 25 years prior to joining eBay seem tailored to preparing her to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
airplanes. But maritime shipping has begun—slowly—to consider alternatives to fossil fuels. The body in charge of decarbonization in maritime shipping, the UN’s International Maritime Organization, has set a... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
she moved out of her home in the Bay Area, settled into a condo in Los Angeles, and set about the task of transforming this idea into a revolution. There’s really no script for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
stages of realizing the full potential of e-books and e-readers. “Imagine a book with a video introduction by the author,” he says. “Or, if you were reading a novel set in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
context of this crisis underscores a big limitation of our current system of health insurance, which is based on covering a predictable set View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Putting Patients First
DaVita, which is focused on kidney care, differentiates itself, Rodriguez notes that his company's solution is a salve for a fragmented health care market. "Our patient population is unique enough that we can take care of the entire... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
something that's really needed," says Farah Emara, cofounder and CEO of B2B agritech platform FreshSource Global. When she was fundraising in 2018, Emara says she often encountered male VCs who suggested she didn't have the right skill... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
Delmotte, a senior scientist at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “very clearly set the stakes” of climate impacts, while Pierre Vandier, head of the French... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
had operating profits of $1.9 million on sales of $4 million. Mikitani, formerly a banker at the Industrial Bank of Japan, became a man with a mission after attending HBS: He... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
realized he had found the opportunity of a lifetime. Shortly thereafter, in rural Ohio, Hostetter and his friend, H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), set up their own cable enterprise - Continental Cablevision -... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
they use their greatest strengths and they learn to play together as a team because they're "Aligned" around common purpose and a set of values. But this is not soft. All great coaches are very challenging.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
a doctor’s office for a dose of ketamine and remains under the care of medical professionals for about an hour while the ketamine does its thing. Ketamine can induce out-of-body experiences, so a safe View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
consumers to open their wallets a little more? Yes, we believe so. In an 11-day field experiment, we designed a PWYW promotion for a pack of gum at a student café under two different scenarios. In the first, we View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
reject." To avoid generating only "a grossly ethnocentric set of values," continues Salter, explorations of performance hypotheses require a diverse student body. "We also need... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey