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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Coast Highway. It was 4,151 miles over 82 days. The biggest challenge isn’t physical; it’s mental. You are going to have tough days, and you are going to face things that scare you. You just have to be prepared: Get yourself in basic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
every business and government agenda in 2021, it was no surprise that more than 70 HBS alumni and guests tuned in to the HBS Association of Southern California’s webinar on February 2 to learn how one start-up is meeting the climate View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
simple as possible at the farm level,” Baron told the audience. But challenges remain. For example, many of the most innovative capabilities—such as natural wetlands that can treat water waste—require “concessionary or impact investment”... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
focused on partnership developments in Europe. We're in most countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East already — we even have some presence in China, in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Expanding into Europe is a bigger View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
(literally “Plant and cultivate the roots”) with my directors. We thoroughly explored the business because I wanted them to see the challenges that exist beyond their own departments — the view from where I sit, as it were. Once we had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
and a prominent addiction psychiatrist and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Research Program—explained the challenges to his son, whose background was in the video-game industry. In study after study,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
façade that we build around our lives," Clark observed. "I think there will be a sense of real meaning during the year." In the same Harbus issue, Rick Leimsider (HBS '03), a new arrival on campus who had "never written to a newspaper before," View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
Todd Brix (MBA 1997, Baker Scholar), a chemical engineer and businessman who spent 18 years at Microsoft, wanted to come up with a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: What to do with all the carbon dioxide... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
work of the organization. The recruiting and retention of the management team is therefore another vital function of leadership. “In each of these areas, the challenge is not only design and implementation but also alignment and... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- News
Mission Critical
Janice Whaley (GMP 15, 2013) is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of LifeShare of Oklahoma, an affiliate of a national, nonprofit organ procurement organization. In this video, she talks about the challenges facing her... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
innovation is accelerating rapidly, and means big changes and challenges for the sector. We are seeing rapid changes both in traditional retailers and in startups. The largest traditional retailers are investing heavily in their online... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
Five years ago, HBS professor Francis J. Aguilar (now emeritus) and Walter Y. Elisha (MBA '65), then chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc., brought together a dynamic coalition of corporations and business schools to address the View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
In Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life, Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan explore the gap that exists between Christian ideals and the realities of business life at a time when many... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
cosponsored by HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. Her winning idea? Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit social enterprise that prepares young people for the challenges of a global economy. Global Citizen Year fellows spend a “bridge” year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
classroom discussion and case analysis. Even before the program began, twenty players had signed up for the next year, said Mike Haynes, NFL vice president of player and employee development and a football Hall of Famer. “I know firsthand how View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
global market now face the challenges inherent in creating a multinational presence that meets the demands of the “unglobal consumer” — that is, a consumer not satisfied by a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Professors Quelch and Deshpandé... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
have grown from $380 million to more than $1 billion during Ayers’s tenure, and IDEXX staff has doubled to nearly 5,000 employees in more than 65 locations across the globe. While Ayers leaves the lab work to others, his scientific background has helped him understand... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, HBS’s 15 global centers and offices have been instrumental in supporting faculty members’ research into the business impact of the pandemic and supporting alumni who have faced unprecedented View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
School of Business, recounts his history at GE in his recent book, Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. And in this first episode of a special two-part Skydeck interview with Immelt, we talk about his rise to CEO, the View Details