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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
delighted to be taking an active part in the HBS community. "It's very refreshing to come back to the campus and see the progress the School is making in developing leading-edge research," she says. "I look forward to my part in building... View Details
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best method for View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability to View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Millennium Development Goals which range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, they provide sustainable benefits to a developing community for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
neighborhoods. It also called for “a national system of income supplementation,” whose goal was not so much to increase “welfare,” but to economically stabilize impoverished communities in order to encourage private-sector investment and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
India, Peru, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Vietnam to observe local economies, study management practices in the field, and interact directly with business and community leaders. In addition, domestic programs took... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- News
17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
university’s cross-disciplinary ecosystem for exploring innovation and entrepreneurship. Made possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the Life Lab will give Harvard students, faculty, and alumni access to the facilities, programming, and... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
five pillars that you developed that are sort of the foundation for community joy? JP: Yes, and people define both joy and happiness differently, so I appreciate you asking that. We define joy as sustained... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
community’s problems. Today’s residents—predominantly young and about half immigrants from Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru—are among the city’s most vulnerable. Rodríguez Larreta’s plan for developing the neighborhood is an ambitious one.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
Clawson, Jim Kralik, and John Galantic (all MBA ’90), he invited them to Thailand to help get its business community involved in rural economic development to battle poverty and prostitution. Clawson, who... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
grayed plywood. Cummings doesn’t have a clear vision for these properties yet. He’s aware that this investment could look like an outsider trying to make a buck on the back of poverty or trying to dictate the development of a neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Bold Idea Takes Off
foundations, and most recently, Falik was named an HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. GCY’s teen recruits will receive two months of intensive training, after which they will spend six months living with a family in a rural community and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
to incorporate all these needs into "an urban village," which would also include a library, a Head Start facility, a swimming and tennis center, a performing arts annex, and a community services center. "All of a sudden the whole thing... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Taking in Business, Investing, and Life by Karen Firestone (MBA 1983) (Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to risks in business,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
manage a worldwide team to develop a virtual product—diving to the bottom of all five oceans, and doing a lot of science along the way.” The Five Deeps Expedition, Vescovo said, has “proven to be as challenging as any business thing I’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed communication channels. There were... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for opportunities to support View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Creating more effective content across all media
Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of the Pine Mountain Settlement... View Details