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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Board (EDB), amazed the audience when he described how his country is building massive industrial townships in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. "If [building infrastructure] were a gold mine, I would not be here; if it was not a nightmare... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
featuring fascinating historical detail about each route, Seven Climbs is a compelling account of Sherwood’s efforts to answer a much-debated question: Which are the world’s greatest climbs? Faculty Books Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking... View Details
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
I’m just back from vacation and the usual summer fun: swimming, boating, murder and mayhem. Oh, that last part no worries, it got no further than my hammock. That’s where I finally got around to reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first in Swedish author Stieg... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Science, the American Accounting Association, and the American Economics Association. Graduating from Cornell University in 1952, Christenson continued his education at HBS, where he earned an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the performing arts... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
“I’ve been jet-lagged for more than two decades,” he writes. A reader should expect great stories from a first-person account combining rock stars, high-octane politicians, and ruthless business executives, and Roedy doesn’t disappoint.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Federation of America Award for Media Service. His most recent book,My Vast Fortune, due out this month, is a memoir that recalls some of his greatest adventures and misadventures with money. It includes accounts of another facet of... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
bank, “on the ground floor,” first as a teller, then accounts clerk, safety deposits clerk, and bookkeeper. “All of these roles helped me understand the guts of the organization,” he says. “It was humbling, but I am forever grateful,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
of business. The first had to do with relocation. In the early 20th century, if you were Catholic, Jewish, or from the South, which didn’t have much of an industrial base, you would probably look for opportunities out west, where social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
countries. From 2000 to 2004, India’s offshoring industries grew from $4 billion to $12.8 billion, accounting for 6 percent of the increase in its GDP during this period. As founder and chairman of Satyam... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim is delineating a framework that takes into account the inherent uncertainty and complexity of measuring results in the social sector. EBRAHIM: The hard work of measuring impact becomes easier "Performance measurement in nonprofits... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
morning known as “Super Saturday,” 63 student teams present these and other ideas in the Aldrich classrooms where other people’s ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges — a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
though many kinds of cyber intrusions are not required to be reported or made public, known U.S. assaults are up nearly 300 percent since 2001, when over 52,000 cyber incidents were recorded. In that year, by some estimates, hacking View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
(MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. It provides new tools, processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
opportunities to use new technologies for enhancing financial inclusion. By working with communities of crypto business practitioners, the researchers aim to help shape the way this industry evolves, inform regulators, and improve the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the... View Details