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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
entrepreneurs to places with unmet needs, where their imaginations can be stimulated to find new solutions—for example, the cloth incubators for premature babies who lack hospital access, developed by Embrace in San Francisco, or Khan... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
theaters next spring. By then, Epstein may well have finished her next project: writing the screen adaptation of a book about the murders of two Dartmouth College professors in 2001. “I can’t imagine ever going back to a big firm,” she... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
pleased with her dual role as a parent and a key player in getting this particular dot-com off to a running start. "I can't imagine a better place to understand the dynamics of the Internet," she says. "We've built a fairly complex site... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
with executives in transition: the tendency to assume that “everyone is just like me.” “You are not the person in the next office,” he emphasizes. “Most of us imagine that other people share our values and are motivated by the same forces... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
Imagine being accepted into the Harvard MBA Program only to realize you can't afford to enroll. This unfortunate scenario is quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an unprecedented new loan program introduced last spring. HBS... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue, it is hard to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
imagined and caused me to engage in work that (I hope) has been useful to others. Even disastrous moments in our lives, it seems, can be an opportunity for rebirth. Douglas Schofield is on the management committee and is head of the... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
outreach program that will significantly increase engagement with and among alumni well in to the future. The HBS goal is part of Harvard University’s $6.5 billion campaign announced last September. “This Campaign is largely about tapping into our collective View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
been created with HBS Online, and whether that applies to the MBA program or Executive Education and the ability for different groups to access our materials, is going to be a tremendous opportunity. I can imagine us playing a more... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
and the organization's impact on its members' creativity. The book also includessuggestions for managers and leaders on how to boost creativity within their organizations. HBS Research Available on World Wide Web Pondering a business problem or management issue? View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
imagine Ted Levitt was one of them.” At Antioch, Levitt met Joan Levy, who was attracted to his straightforward manner. “I was working on a paper in study hall, and he suddenly appeared and asked if I wanted to go out Saturday night,” she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
When he established an MBA student fellowship in 1979, William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) probably didn’t imagine the head count of student beneficiaries would eventually climb to 78—a number large enough to lose track of when asked about... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
variety of ways, from catchphrases to elaborate pranks. Executive Education classes, also taught in one classroom, are together for a shorter time and are, perhaps, less impressionable than the younger MBA students, but they, too, develop a sense of class solidarity. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
Erica Santoni Photo courtesy of Erica Santoni “HBS has helped me imagine the path to becoming a diversity and inclusion officer within a company—a role that doesn’t exist in Italy, where I’m from. It also broadened my views on what we can... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
How HBS Gives Back
at the Mobile Food Bank. I have had nothing but positive experiences from my time volunteering. I’ve left each session happy and wanting to do more. If one hour a month can generate that much positivity, imagine what we could do if we all... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
they see three options: First, they could double down on the D2C side, which helps get the brand out there quickly, although it is subject to more competition and acquisition costs. The second option is to integrate with real estate companies. View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details