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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"We were never in any imminent danger, but there was always this question mark, a feeling that something big could happen," reports second-year MBA student Daniella Ballou, who spent last summer in Liberia as an intern with the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
long-running stories, it is often the episodes that take place off the beaten track that most capture the imagination. Some classmates may check in only once or twice in their careers, while other reports might appear only because a class... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
the roots of GE’s “ecomagination” business initiative can be traced in part to 3,000 pages of reports written on global warming, brought along on vacation a few years ago. “I wanted GE’s response to environmental realities to be something... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
Institutional Voice guidelines, limiting official statements on public matters, has been widely welcomed as appropriate and timely. The Presidential Task Force reports echo many of the recommendations of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10).... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
fellow collectors of rare records and books with sellers. His solution, the early e-commerce site Exchange.com, was sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in 1999. The second time Leschly sat down to assess his future, he again... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
In its role as a leader in business education, the School has brought dynamic change and innovation to the MBA Program this past year, most notably in admissions, the cohort structure, the Foundations portion of the curriculum, and information technology. The following... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
its revenues every year since reporting its first sales in 2010. “Right now the public is only just beginning to get an idea of what Local Motors can do.” “Right now the public... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological, and economic history” and describe their new publication as a playbook “to help Black unicorns ‘team up’ and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
filed to take the company public in 2006 but withdrew a few months later when market conditions were deemed unfavorable. A new attempt to go public in 2011 resulted in the May 2012 sale of the company to... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
Burke: A need to close the income gap. After her graduation from HBS, few people could accuse Mary Burke (MBA 1985) of having led a dull life. As reported in the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times (October 5, 2011), Burke first worked for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) Wiley In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on Very Long-Term Investing presents... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
highest-ranking woman in the AOL Time Warner organization — oversees more than 130 popular magazines, including the company’s high-circulation weeklies Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, along with well-known View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Mall — it is not surprising that 80 percent of the museum's visitors are not from the D.C. metropolitan area. "Unlike other museums," observes Bob Fri, "we don't need to get on the treadmill of constantly changing our temporary exhibits in order to keep the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
week, a handful of new companies open themselves up to the public through Republic’s platform, where it often takes just $25 and a credit card to buy in. (In Roomi’s case, the minimum investment on Republic was $50.) The result is a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg