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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
seawater air-conditioning (SWAC) system, an idea that Brando proposed to Bailey. The system, whose deep-sea pipe descends to 930 meters, functions perpetually with virtually no maintenance. Explains Bailey, “In the same way that water...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer
her work that last spring he presented the MMRF with a $4.8 million gift to further its pathbreaking cancer research. Commented HBS professor Bill Sahlman, who introduced Bowes and Giusti, “Their collaboration shows how HBS alumni can and do make a difference in the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
comprises some 14 percent of the nation's economy — continues to present persistent, complex, and often painful dilemmas that affect virtually every citizen. All of which makes Peter Slavin's credentials especially valuable. With...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Steps,” which consisted of four weekly online discussions for HBS and Harvard alumni in Africa. The series of hour-long webinars featured eight HBS faculty (led by Senior Lecturers John Macomber, Euvin Naidoo, and Hakeem Belo-Osagie and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
HBS was well-represented at Springboard 2000. Professor Myra Hart chaired the event and served on the steering committee with Angela Crispi (MBA '90), assistant dean and chief planning officer at the School. The following HBS alumnae were...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office of a credit card...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the only pan-African firm of its...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
things in all walks of life,” she explains. “But when college students hear MBA, they think it means getting dressed up in a suit and reporting to a cubicle. They don’t know what an MBA can do for them — that it’s a degree that can take them View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Battalion Assistance Foundation, dedicated to assisting rangers and their families when their needs outstrip the Army’s abilities to meet them. Says Scherrer, who serves on the foundation’s board, “The...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
bronzes, and, yes, the glorious stone statuary of Cambodia. I also assisted young archaeologists with grant applications to preserve ancient kiln sites from the encroachment of developers’ bulldozers. We brought traditional Cambodian...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
novel case discussion. To a classroom full of the teenage children of reunion alumni, HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton explained, “When we’re learning how to ride a bike, sometimes we fall off, but we get up and try again. That’s our...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
interview with Levitt conducted by HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, was shown at the colloquium. See article) Virtually all colloquium participants acknowledged a debt to Levitt, pointing to elements of his 1983 article that...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
organizations, Hill turned again to the collective expertise of the global business community. She was supported in her research efforts by project leader Sunand Menon (MBA 2001) and former HBS Executive Fellow Ann Le Cam, both of whom have extensive backgrounds in...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. In their recent...
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Amy E. Dean
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
authorities. Three AÇEV children and family centers, a 10-classroom primary school, an 8-classroom high school, and sports-and-child play areas will be built in the Gaziantep, Hatay, and Adıyaman container villages. To support continuing education, FIBA also provided...
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- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
intelligence of students and faculty. The centers assist faculty with research and case writing, strengthen relationships with local alumni and practitioners, facilitate faculty and student immersions abroad, and host MBA admissions and...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
endeavors. After building his fortune in the virtual world, Steven D. Murch (MBA '91) has taken up a hammer to build a lasting legacy in the real world. “My dream is to create a foundation that helps people,” says Murch, a Microsoft...
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