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- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
member of the American Refugee Committee. Ruhr says rarely a week goes by that she doesn’t call to mind an HBS mantra: “Just break it down.” “Anything that seems overwhelming. I tell the staff, ‘It’s just ‘next step and next step, and you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
coauthored by Steven L. Ossad (MBA ’76) (Taylor Trade Publishing) With a subtitle World War II’s Greatest Forgotten Commander, this is a biography of the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle. Send information... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
and in front of it, and as a rare representation in Hollywood—backed by an even rarer megabudget—of Black culture. Like Disney’s Encanto and Pixar’s Coco, animated hits that featured Latin American culture in a way that audiences also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
associate professor Walter Kuemmerle, who developed the elective course International Entrepreneurial Finance by writing cases that involve about twenty different countries. “The largest group to take the course are actually American... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
College Daze
American parents wholeheartedly believe in the importance of a college education, but relatively few are saving enough for that not-so-distant day when Junior's whopping tuition bills will start rolling in. Enter UPromise, Inc., a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
Amaris Singer (MBA 2014) believes American business is at a crossroads: "The future of America lies in the hands of those who think big, act boldly, and work together to create jobs and hope in our communities," she says. This ethos... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
market goods to the West. American managers are still reeling from last year’s wild dot-com ride, while managers abroad are busy applying its lessons.” (Nolan will document management lessons from the recent experience of dot-com... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
children and a man serves as the village director, but in the United States that kind of model is seen as sexist," she says. "In fact, gender-based hiring is illegal here. Modifications need to be made if SOS children's villages are going to receive wider acceptance by... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
(with Richard F. Vancil and Paul W. Marshall). He also contributed the chapter"Capital Budgeting and Long-Range Planning" to the book Progress in Operations Research. Beyond HBS, Christenson has been an active member of professional organizations such as the View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
their pistols and muskets and attack only with swords and bayonets. Hamilton's troops silently crept up on the British, then surged into the trenches and began screaming like madmen. After ten or fifteen minutes of vicious hand-to-hand fighting, the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including Daniels's own -- you'd never know... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
compensation does not result in improved performance in American companies, they conclude, corporations abroad should resist pressures to tie incentives to individual and unit performance. Two Best Ways? When HBS assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Wilson Illustration by Jeffrey Smith After 121 days at sea, Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) sailed his 60-foot, single-hull sloop Great American III across the finish line in France last March, completing the 2008–09 Vendée Globe around-the-world... View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
last week, Rogers said that less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 HBS cases focus on a black executive, even though 9 percent of American companies are black-owned. Rogers, who has been teaching at HBS for five years, has set out to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
Tomography) scanner at MRC helps doctors diagnose diseases and abnormalities. Augmented Intelligence The American Medical Association uses the term “augmented intelligence” as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence that focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
When HBS launched the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, the American economy was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Washington was in gridlock, and the nation was caught in the hype of a presidential election. Against this... View Details