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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
(#BODO) campaign. FreeMeals.org’s easy-to-use website allows restaurants to participate and earn $25 for a meal that feeds four people, families to sign up and share their specific need, and donors to support the effort. “This is a time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the forces affecting attitudes and behaviors in each generation and analyzes the implications of organizational and technological changes for their future. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard University community and beyond. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
and conflict resolution took place at the Negotiation Roundtable, itself part of an active University-wide effort called the Program on Negotiation, based at Harvard Law School. Since its establishment in the early 1980s, the Negotiation Roundtable's View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
restaurants, stores, gyms, and airplanes. For kids, this looks very different. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have spent 15,600 hours inside a school. (Incidentally, as Harvard professor Jack Spengler likes to point out, schools are one of two... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
illustrates wonderfully just the kinds of strategy issues that many participants in SPNM face." Jatrice Martel Gaiter, the executive director of SOS-KDI's fledgling U.S. operation, elaborates on just one of the many issues the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
to say in my next column." Berner speaks for the many dedicated class and section correspondents whose efforts ensure the vitality of the HBS alumni network, reaffirmed year after year in record-breaking reunion participation numbers.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
and prepared to return home with a new perspective. The bonds forged during this experience remain, as the group stays in contact. Gower notes that the one-on-one coaching that he and the other participants received with an experienced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Even after they had started up the mountain from their base camp on October 2, they had been forced by unexpected rock outcroppings, unstable ice, and unpredictable weather to change their plans at almost every stage. Now they were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
ready now.” We had been counting on two more days to finish our work along a 56-mile front — reducing physical obstacles, such as berms, ditches, and electrified fences, to clear lanes for American forces to roll into Iraq from Kuwait.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
participated in the signing ceremony for an investment of $132 million by Fruit of the Loom, which is closing its plant in Ireland to consolidate operations here to serve the EU market. One of our most successful initiatives is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
at HBS.” Three significant achievements should be added to those mentioned in the March article: For eighteen months, between late 1950 and early 1952, Bob and his family lived in Washington, D.C., during which time he headed a four-person faculty team advising the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
company are added to the drives by the neighborhood distributor. Hip-hop duo La Reyna y La Real also use the service for promotion, noting that most of their fellow musicians advertise this way. “If you dig deep into Cuba’s history, it’s full of events that have View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
launch the strategy revolution. The Corporate Apocalypse and Greater Taylorism After America’s postwar boom and preeminence, factors arose that made strategy consulting both inevitable and irreplaceable. Every historical period feels itself beset with View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
think that leads to a particular kind of culture where people start feeling foolish if they're not participating in these perceived changes. Getting Down to Business Palepu: How can we begin to fix some of these problems? Hall: On the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty, superficial responses that really only create enemies. If someone blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred to the wisdom of my team and the larger View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso