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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
by the stories she sees at the grassroots level. At a recent visit to Ariel Community Academy, a magnet school in Chicago, she watched kindergarteners learn principles of trading and fifth graders doing analyses of companies. "They were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
first Jakurski Family Associate Professors of Business Administration. Their chairs are funded by a gift from André R. Jakurski (MBA 1973) and his wife, Maria, and are part of a new effort to invest in the development of the School’s... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
prepares highly qualified professionals for high-level roles in the social sector. “We’re focused on developing leaders at all levels for the world’s greatest challenges,” she says of ProInspire, which was recently named one of “7 Nonprofits to Watch in 2015” View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
by my passion to create innovative solutions for this underserved community,” he noted. Amir Williams (MBA 2025)Born and raised in North Carolina, Amir is a documentary storyteller with a commitment to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive... View Details
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Art Nature Business
photographs to works that incorporate recycled and industrial materials—in order to bring new perspectives to conversations on campus about climate change. Click on the images below for more information about each work in the exhibition. Exhibition curated View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
achieved, he never ceased to believe that what had happened before could happen again. Reprinted from Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, by Richard S. Tedlow, by arrangement with Portfolio, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980)... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
75 Barclay Street by fallen debris, Joe Lhota, Giuliani, Kerik, and other city officials were stunned. "At first, we couldn't comprehend that the tower had completely collapsed," Lhota recalls. "We'd been standing with First Deputy Fire... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; and William Lever, of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors by John C.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
(“Bing”) Sherrill (MBA ’62), William Joyce (MBA ’76), and Pamela Germain (MBA ’85 and an MHCD attendee), the club, with the help of matching funds provided by HBS, sent eight managers and clinicians from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
strategies that upgrade education in specific cities or towns. A second report released in February of this year examined the results of the first-ever nationwide survey of school superintendents on the role of business in America's education system. Completed View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a... View Details