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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
of the planet. Those of us with power and money need to redirect our concerns with that in mind.” “You can’t just shrug your shoulders and say, ‘Africa is a hell of a problem,’ and then forget about it.” During thirty years in View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
plea—deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans-—to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half-century of governmental failure. With stark poignancy and political dispassion,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
brings a group together in an online forum to solve a specified "challenge." The participating HBS alumni researched the issues of long-term growth and job creation, generated theories of and potential solutions for the issue, and refined... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
reorganising like the eastern European elites, to take power subsequently. Spin-doctors also overstate aid commitments, while understating cost and casualties. Peaceniks likewise exaggerate difficulties. The only people putting national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
essential). SABIS uses computerized learning assessment systems and online learning to reinforce, not disrupt, the traditional SABIS classroom process. Says Bistany, "It's an approach, honed by decades of practice, that holds powerful... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Jacobs (MBA 2007), working at the international organization reflected a choice: to do innovative work and “to feel good about waking up to go there every day,” as he puts it. The team of 260 in Portland supports more than 5,000 others... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson (MBA ’82) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Helgesen and Johnson demonstrate that what women perceive in organizations (like interpersonal factors) often goes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech on the View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
mutual antipathy. Solutions to heal the partisan divide haven’t worked because they have failed to address the root cause of the problem: A wedge has been driven into American politics by powerful political,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
Previously, asking others to cover for you would be frowned on, but in the new arrangement, this is a collective problem. Team members proactively look at ways to meet the deadline without sacrificing your night off. It becomes a very View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
political activism in more direct ways, as well. "We're actually one of the most powerful citizen-action groups in the nation," she says. In 1999, Working Assets launched a progressive talk-radio station in Boulder, Colorado, which is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
has considerable power to forestall any merger that doesn't appeal to him." Sometimes, however, Lorsch adds, reluctant CEOs do come under such intense pressure from boards that they are forced to accept offers, or directors recognize that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks of external problem solvers—to help engineer solutions to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
first salon the following year. The celebrity hairdresser Charles Nessler, interned as an enemy alien in Britain, also escaped to New York under a false identity and built a new business. The 1917 Communist revolution in Russia produced... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
SAAS solution for small businesses to introduce machine learning by text to their business finances’ (or something like that). The folks we met on Shark Tank made things like a container for your sandwich so it doesn’t get soggy in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
April 2004, Philadelphia had 14 teacher vacancies, down from 102 in April 2003. While the campaign was a success, it represented a work-around solution to the deficiencies of human resources, a challenge addressed in the second case.... View Details