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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
discussion. Even so, he continued, it's good to keep the situation in perspective. When he graduated in the early 1980s, unemployment was around 12 percent, inflation was close to 15 percent, and interest rates were in double digits. “I think at View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, a dinner and reception with MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result, they are as confused about who... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the Brooklyn Heights town house where he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
and post-IXP surveys indicate that students are more than satisfied with the program. “Getting global exposure was a top priority for my time in B-School,” wrote one participant. “HBS’s investment in these programs is a truly outstanding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
Robert’s memory of that time is filled with emotion: “I walked into Ted Levitt’s Marketing class, saw ‘Jonathan Ariel Kraft, March 4, 1964’ written on the board, and received a standing ovation. It’s a... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Player One. And recently it’s felt like the right time in terms of technological advancements, accessibility, and investment for a field like VR to really start taking off and I wanted to be there when it did.” What promise do you think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996." "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began years ago, how central... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 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
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
was good, both departments were succeeding, and this man retired. Two years later I found myself opening my own auto dealership in our community, and it was time to hire my own staff. I went to this gentleman's house, sat on the back... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
ours was a unique time at the School, but it wasn't as though we were burning down buildings and joining the SDS - we worked very hard," continues O'Donnell, who has vivid memories of his first day at HBS. "We were greeted by the Dean in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
a doctor (preferably the patient's own). In cases of full-blown emergencies, CardioResponse alerts emergency services and hospitals and provides them with the patient's medical history, current data, and other necessary information. View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. While in the United States the make-up market is twice the size of the skin care market, in China the skin care market is four times the size of the make-up market. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
Market Research: Forty-two MBA students traveled to Accra, Ghana, where this team spent time at a local market. The world became HBS students’ classroom in January as the entire first-year class spent a week... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
company's efforts toward protecting human health, natural resources, and the global environment. As part of that effort, GM has now become the first major auto manufacturer in modern times to bring to market... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons