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- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native village in Pakistan in 2007 when she got the idea to found the Dreamfly, a global initiative designed to educate, expose, and empower people living in communities of conflict. “We connect... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
people he wanted to hurt, or why he must hurt them,” she recalls. That moment in December 2007 set in motion Mendhro’s vision for the Dreamfly, a global initiative designed to educate, expose, and empower people living in communities of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Aug 2013
- News
People must take responsibility for managing their careers
- 10 Oct 2023
- News
HBS Responds to the Attacks on Israel
MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR Dear members of the HBS community, I wanted to follow up on the message I joined with Harvard’s leadership in sending last evening, and on the statement issued by President Claudine Gay earlier today. Over the past few days, I have View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
professional awakening about how he managed his company was part of a larger reflection about how he managed something more personal: his anger. READ MORE DM: You’ve spoken about how you underwent anger management counseling and how it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
“read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Tu Veux Sprechen Conmigo Online?
“It’s cool to say you speak six languages,” Karen Ong (MBA ’08) told the Boston Globe (March 12, 2008). “But the process of learning a language is boring.” So Ong decided to do something about it. She created MyHappyPlanet.com, an online social network in which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
addition to the volunteer positions mentioned above, I realize that there are countless others of you working daily on behalf of HBS, committed to serving the School and to bettering the lives of its alumni. Dean Kim B. Clark has spoken... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
wouldn’t say ‘innovation’ is a dirty word in nonprofits, but it is one that is not spoken often,” she acknowledges. Under Hudson’s leadership, the organization—which runs two facilities with about 800 beds and access to medical,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts and other goodies that companies extend... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
global-poverty problem, which is what IGD has done, is an important step that the public sector would be wise to study. One thing stands in the way: lack of a broad-based understanding in the business community that ending extreme global... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
months - the mayor, under a new term-limits law, was barred from seeking reelection. Only a few days before, Lhota recalls, he and Giuliani had spoken about "how fortunate we were that the city had not had a major disaster during our... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
weekly spoken responses to prompts about their past into a beautiful hardcover book, printed with QR codes that play the recording used to write each chapter. Since September, we’ve focused on making the product more accessible and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
finds such gratification in the 47-mile bike and pedestrian route soon to connect the six-city region. It will be a legacy enjoyed by generations. “It’s very psychically rewarding,” he says. “It’s so much fun to be involved in something the entire View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
her to focus on innovation in her first several years in the role. “I wouldn’t say ‘innovation’ is a dirty word in nonprofits, but it is one that is not spoken often,” she observes. Hudson wants Chapman to be a leader in embracing new... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
come in-- never, not once, has anyone ever landed this plane without killing every single person on board in the simulator. And if you ask Richard de Crespigny why he was able to do this-- and I've spoken to him a dozen times-- he will... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
dignity—all of which can translate into fewer medical needs, Kiuchi says. As with many of Mediva’s innovations, the government is taking notice of the successes, citing them in conferences and papers, and finding ways to build on these solutions in View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Congress for the authority to take them over, it was granted without much debate. I’ve spoken to almost every lawmaker, regulator, and executive who might have influenced that decision, and none indicated they lost much sleep over the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
progress. When thinking about our strategy and how to communicate it to teammates, I walk myself through the list of each class in the RC first-semester curriculum as a sort of outline/checklist. It’s an organized way to think about how... View Details