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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
deferred admission program at HBS. “Dee is a remarkable leader,” says Losee, “and I feel the great responsibility of stepping into this role.” DM: Tell me about your experience applying to HBS. CL: I was working in consulting—a great, but demanding job—so I View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
"It was very bizarre," Jones says. "A neighborhood of 150,000 people suddenly didn't have a proper place to buy food." Jones learned that the city was eyeing the supermarket location for a police station and that a new elementary school was to be built three View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
been a major stumbling block in LBS's bid to build a library of Nigerian cases,” Okonedo comments. Company executives are more likely to be cooperative, she learned, if they're made aware of the “fictional”... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot of blocking... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
describe how previously identified "second-generation" forms of subtle gender bias have impeded women's progress. These practices and patterns, although unintentional, favor men and create structural career blocks for women. The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
innovation. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, we show that more IP protection and building stronger barriers around innovation are not always the best path to capturing value. Paradoxically, innovators can sometimes benefit by weakening the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
How often have you heard that, when entering a negotiation, you should get your allies onboard first? Conventional wisdom, but not always the best advice. When the United States sought to build a global anti-Iraq coalition following... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential Skills that View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
company I was considering joining after school. Enter Plaid. Plaid is a startup that enables businesses to access their users’ financial information by streamlining the connection to their users’ bank accounts. This service is not only a core View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
business opportunities. "The basic idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks," says Iyer. "If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
classrooms, and help establish a comprehensive model of education for the country. “The nuns in Rwanda have an astounding capacity to make the most of any resources they can get their hands on,” he says. “We’d build a View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
which the leading experts work. Always, the technological enablers of disruption are successfully deployed against the industry's simplest problems first. They then build commercial and technological momentum upon that foothold and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
building blocks of successful alliances: the right framework (to help achieve company goals and identify potential partners), the right organization (the right people constantly honing their skills), and the... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
approach of education, social-service, and community-building programs targeting 100 square blocks in New York City. Ninety percent of high school students who attend HCZ’s after-school programs go on to college; 100 percent of its third... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
gas, and those are natural vessels for us to put the CO2 back into the ground. DM: But that doesn't have to be the carbon's final destination. JM: I'm a big fan of CO2 as a building block to actually make... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
relevant connections. How is the organization in which you’re involved pursuing social change? WAVE is currently building a movement of employers committed to hiring for competencies (over credentials) and educators committed to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
in recall, in turn, stems not from loss of memory, per se. Instead, it has to do with conflicts with other similar memories that wind up blocking efforts to recall the specific piece of information or story, the study finds. Stories have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks,” says Iyer. “If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have space to sell so that it will be a for-profit... View Details
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE
WAVE, profiling our work within the alumni community and making relevant connections. How is the organization in which you’re involved pursuing social change? WAVE is currently building a movement of employers committed to hiring for... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
drought-proof resource has become increasingly appealing. “Carlsbad is a very important test case,” he says. “There are lots of eyes on it—everywhere from Texas to Florida.” And it’s not only the tech that interests other cities, it’s the way Poseidon View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell