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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large public View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
personal and career development. Join a well-managed, growing organization. Keep family and friends first. Find your own way of giving back. Pro bono work I have three interests — education, the environment, and health View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
understand. My first jobs were in retailing, on the finance side. Thirteen years after HBS, I had a midlife crisis. I was working for a soon-to-be defunct department store in Baltimore and knew it was time to get out. I left my job to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
becoming increasingly apparent, the economics of the sector made fighting the virus a less-than-obvious business choice. The market size for a vaccine was unknown, and the paths for financing such research—which could have a price tag in... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
alumni—some well-known and others not so familiar—who are doing important work in, say, education, or health care, or entrepreneurial ventures. With this edition, we've given the "focus" concept a spin: We're looking at the alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but it expects to set the market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Crowning Achievement
BAZEY: An advocate for burn victims. One day in 1994, Sarah Bazey (OPM 32, 2003), the owner, president, and CEO of Minnesota-based Simplex Construction Supplies, chartered a helicopter for an aerial view of one of her company's projects. When the aircraft crashed and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
affected areas to restock shelves and give taxed local staff needed time off. In the early days of the pandemic, it meant doing whatever could be done to stock toilet paper. Weckert estimates that in one week, the company sold three rolls for every Australian man,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
New Series Look at Issues, School News
November 1 with Professor Bill George discussing transforming health care leadership. And on December 5, Professor Alan MacCormack will explore action learning and the new MBA FIELD course. Visit... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
George H. Strong, MBA 1951
Barney, Ecuadorian Corporation, Arthur D. Little, American Medicorp, and Universal Health Services as “checkered,” he says he can’t think of a better way to prepare for the dynamic responsibilities that he encountered in the investment... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been disproportionately impacted by both the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
A Time To Celebrate: As with every year, Class Day and Commencement were filled with many memorable moments. Among the general scenes of pomp and pageantry were (middle) the faculty recipients of the Class of 2011’s awards for excellence in teaching, Professors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he honed his design... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise awareness about important causes. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 20 Mar 2014
- News
Kathy Giusti Named to Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders List
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the areas of View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special. In a word, they had grit.” Recommended by Health care executive Daniel Bowles (MBA/MPP 2015) Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss... View Details