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- 28 May 2019
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Future Source
vision by creating highly skilled African workers who will attract foreign investment and help build the businesses of the future. Launched in 2014, the company has received $180 million in venture-backed funding to date. Andela offers a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
responsibilities,” she explains. “So to say to students ‘We have a carbon crisis, what can managers do about it?’ will be interesting.” “I’m delighted to be at Harvard. There’s a great deal of interest in these issues, and the question of what students can do as future... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
Silicon Valley a natural fit. It’s a path that worked quite nicely for Thomas, who eventually rose to vice president of marketing at SuccessFactors, a software firm focused on employee performance and strategy solutions. Then, in 1995,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
difficulties of flying in a post-9/11 world. Long lines at security, delays, and meager service were the least of it. For many business travelers, getting from a big city to a smaller one was a tricky, time-consuming proposition, often... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- News
Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’
newspaper. “But if anything [that ratio is] shading down, we’re not winning. We’re overtly losing, despite some of our best efforts.” The article mentions that Grantham—who recently spoke at an HBS Business and Environment Initiative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
reunions, and online products and services. Deborah Farrington (MBA ’76) supervised the programming subcommittee, which recommended that the School offer an MBA “renewal” program to deliver the latest thinking in five critical areas of a View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
HBS Faculty Member Honored
The first-place McKinsey Award for the best article to appear in Harvard Business Review during the previous year has gone to University Professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
that their HBS degree could not save them from the vicissitudes of the marketplace." (In Transition: From the HBS Club of New York's Career Management Seminar, a 1991 book written by Burton and Wedemeyer, is still a favorite among job changers.) Burton, who is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
New Ventures by Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999) and Bill Murphy Jr. (Farallon Publishing) The authors explain the key common strategies and tactics used by some of today’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs and offer a seven-step framework for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Associate Professor Joshua Lerner spoke about opportunities and challenges in the venture capital and community development fields; Professor James L. Heskett discussed strategy and community revitalization; and Professor Michael E.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
dissatisfied customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
“If you fast forward 11 years, what we have been able to accomplish is, first of all, an insanely rapid growth. We have doubled the size of the business every two years. Second, we are close to servicing around 8,000 stores directly with... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the workplace has been seismic, causing many companies to completely rethink their strategies and models. It was especially disruptive, says Anna Auerbach (MBA 2010), because companies had already been... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair