Filter Results:
(3,950)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,950)
- People (12)
- News (1,334)
- Research (1,684)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (41)
- Faculty Publications (836)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,950)
- People (12)
- News (1,334)
- Research (1,684)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (41)
- Faculty Publications (836)
- Web
Capitalism: Past, Present, Future - Course Catalog
of young Americans view capitalism positively, and calls for alternatives are becoming ever more frequent. Why? And why have different forms of capitalism led to such unequal outcomes around the world? What is capitalism, really; what has... View Details
- 15 Aug 2021
- News
You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
The New York Times recently profiled Red Ventures, led by CEO and cofounder Ric Elias (MBA 1994), calling the company “perhaps the biggest digital publisher in America, a 4,500-employee juggernaut that says it has roughly $2 billion in... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
also used my teaching as a recruiting vehicle for NASA, to inspire bright students out of high school to go into our apprenticeship program.” Since retiring, the indefatigable Earls has taught college-level ethics courses, launched a K–12 program that offers Mandarin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Lone Star Star
those days," he observed, "skating in Dallas was a pretty unusual thing." All that hard work eventually led to his Olympic moment at Albertville, France. It was a breakthrough for his career, said Wylie, who felt fortunate to have even... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Gibson Hits a High Note
Juszkiewicz, chairman and CEO, credits the company’s turnaround in part to aging baby boomers who can afford to plunk down $1,000 or more for remakes of classic designs played by the world’s top professional musicians, including B.B. King and View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Woman in the House
Davis, a Democrat, has never held public office, she is not new to state governance, having led the state’s budget and family and social services agencies. “I accept my new responsibilities gladly and wholeheartedly,” said Davis, who... View Details
- Career Coach
Alan Braly
included launching a startup to commercialize an interventional oncology medical device. He was previously at Health Advances, a boutique healthcare strategy consulting firm, where he led engagements in diagnostics, therapeutics, medical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
research and action in this type of underfunded effort, what Clara Wu Tsai calls the “white spaces.” She notes, “I believe in being strategic and bold and in trying to fill the gaps, funding high-impact ideas and visionary leaders that need to be funded.” That... View Details
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
In a recent post for HBS Working Knowledge, Howard Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus, and Shirley Spence, writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, detail how organizations led by HBS alumni are responding to the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- Portrait Project
Umaimah Mendhro
storms, I led my way to Harvard to be amongst you. You who helped me build a school in my home-village... a place for children to craft and realize purposeful dreams. Where they can learn to reason and judge for themselves. And do not... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lee Koffler
their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another... View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015) Photo courtesy Perelel A recent article in Forbes reports that reproductive health startup Perelel, cofounded by Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015), has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Unilever... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Thinking Inside the Box
purchase, “the brothers got sidetracked by the boxes in which the treats were shipped, and started down a road that led them from Denver and a world of high finance to Baltimore and a life of corrugated cardboard,” the Baltimore Sun... View Details
Brittany Davis
Brittany is a General Partner at Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm, where she identifies and invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies led by underrepresented founders. She has led multiple... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Reinhardt led a discussion of the case recently in the MBA field study seminar Innovation in Business, Energy, and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. The case was prepared by... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
large, established, highly-regarded business firms. Khurana then proceeds to outline significant events that led to the dilution and destruction of this ideal, to the replacement of "managerial capitalism" by "shareholder... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
call. The foundation wanted to invest in for-profit bioscience companies to spur scientists to find a cure for the disease. O’Donnell is credited with almost singlehandedly raising $250 million in support of this venture philanthropy, which View Details
- Career Coach
Jim Warner
late-career decisions and those considering board work. After HBS, Jim joined HBO where during the 1980’s he helped launch Cinemax, expand HBO’s international footprint and build a content syndication business. At CBS in the 1990’s he led... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
and our committee on Lifelong Learning is led by Jo Tango (MBA 1995) and Paula Smith Dermody (OPM 42, 2012). Each group conducts its work in between our board meetings and presents its findings and recommendations when we meet. Both areas... View Details