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- 22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
initial project is completed. What are your current projects? We have three formal projects in Rwanda, India, and Honduras. In Rwanda, we’re helping Mission Schools International, founded by Brendan Kennealey (MBA ’06), establish a network of View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
can cause pneumonia; it had previously only been recommended for children. (The recommendation was later softened when it became clear that vaccinating children naturally led to fewer cases in older adults.) But few believed that the underlying fundamentals of the... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
centers across India, creating more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and 12,000 jobs. The first program, Change the Mindset (CMS), works with students in secondary schools and colleges, introducing them to entrepreneurial skills and opening their... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
lack of market linkages are only a few of the problems. The story of women is an economic story. Investing in women creates a safer, prosperous, and more stable world, which is in everyone’s best interest.” Notes Lemmon, who has cowritten... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
ventilation system that cycles the air every few seconds and a secondary system designed to blow out any pathogens or insects that might have snuck past earlier garrisons. All of this security is in place to protect—sans pesticides—the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to management problems. One team... 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 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
Whitney: She hopes to graduate from admissions to running a school one day. When Stephanie Whitney (MBA ’85) left behind a globe-trotting career in marketing in 1996 to raise her two young sons and get involved in her community, she had... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse’s pathway out of poverty began with scholarships to study at excellent elementary and secondary schools, which prepared him for admission to Harvard College, where he earned a degree in economics in 2005. “Education made all... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
determined largely by individual "interest patterns" that stabilize in early adulthood. Because these patterns are realized through specific work activities, a given job is best analyzed by examining its underlying activity structure. Looking beyond surface... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
that showed a wide disparity in learning gains among CMOs in 23 states found that those organizations backed by Hall's fund had significantly higher learning gains than other CMOs or independent charter schools. "We are trying to build the capital View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
to expand their market power through vertical and horizontal integration," Silk explains. Within the media industry, a central fact is that its many actors, from venerable big-city dailies to the hottest Internet sites, are competing for... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 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 promise for learning in the 21st... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Instead, German defeat was due to errors of Nazi diplomacy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources (including many recently released), Hitler’s Great Gamble is a provocative work that will appeal to a wide cross-section of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
engineering orientation into business. How do you explain Starbucks' success? In the past, coffee was treated as a commodity, with quality secondary to cost. So when we offered a terrific product in an appealing environment, with all the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
heavily in employees and the other focuses mainly on shareholders or customers," Paine says. A secondary category of ethical issues, she notes, involves questions arising from the actual M&A; transaction. "Some really vexing issues... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
Campaign for Human Capital. He then oversaw the implementation of a variety of efforts, including a marketing blitz touting the benefits of teaching in Philadelphia; a recruitment event, “Rolling Out the Red Carpet”; leadership training... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
to do education strategy or operations. How will online learning change the education establishment? Stephan Liozu, PhD (TGMP 15, 2005) @StephanLiozu: Disruption in educational market will require adaptation, biz model innovation & new... View Details