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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Communities, became our main vehicle to address poor families’ need for a clean and affordable water supply as well as proper sanitation. Since its launch in 1998, the TPSB program has benefited more than 1.7 million people, accounting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
grew rapidly during the ’90s and managed to weather the dot-com bust. Eager for new challenges, Meakem sold the company last year for nearly $500 million and has embarked on a career in venture capital and politics. Committed to helping... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leveraging her experience to serve her community
Nancy Gray (MBA 1988) is putting her management experience to work as a pro-bono consultant and volunteer for organizations that benefit her community. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
salaries and benefits for HBS’s 207 faculty (on a full-time equivalent basis) and approximately 1,000 professional and administrative staff. HBS also must manage and maintain its own discrete campus, which... View Details
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) As an engagement manager at McKinsey, Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) often found herself in need of an afternoon energy boost. But caffeinated, sugary drinks left her feeling even more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
employees. This seems both ill-considered and unlikely to work. I doubt this bill will become law. But when capitalism goes unchecked and unexamined, and management is seduced by a narrow and myopic perspective, the pendulum can quickly... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
given the loss of tax revenues, but why is the SEC interested? First, this dual-reporting system creates significant confusion. In effect, one-third of costs (the tax claim on pretax profits) is not reported clearly to investors. Second, lower taxes are thought to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
the benefits of lower-cost, pollution-free energy today over the uncertain costs of carbon dioxide–driven climate change tomorrow for quite some time to come.” Lassiter is the Senator John Heinz Professor of View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out of a need Kelleher saw in her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
Professor Jeff Polzer focused on team management issues. “Besides being informational from an academic point of view, the case discussions and faculty involvement were great ways to facilitate interaction with our peers,” says Bruce... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
Do future MBAs emerge from the womb with business card in hand? Greet their preschool pals with a firm, not fishy, handshake? HBS alumni so frequently mention the lifelong benefits of connections made at Soldiers Field that I’ve always... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
maintain that it is, above all, intended for those who need a change. Although their book can benefit anyone in business, the authors maintain that it is, above all, intended for those who need a change. The authors wrote Discovering Your... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Jackson, Sr.; John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing; Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; and Stuart Alden Taylor (MBA '87), senior managing director at Bear Stearns. Interactive sessions explored private equity deal... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner