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- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
1985F, 1989A, and 2008J), to protest a professor’s behavior (see 1992C and 2000D), and to just have fun. But when pranks involved rivalry between sections, things could get out of hand. See the episode described under 1992D, which made the front page of the Wall Street... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
among others. Opening up participation to nontraditional actors resulted in the sort of truly novel perspectives that can lead to breakthroughs in an established field of research. Often the complaint in academia is that our research is trapped in View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
result in a special issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics.” “It is critical for us to understand the relationships between our economic systems and the natural environment, and to figure out the leadership and governance... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
someone wakes up after falling asleep,” the Wall Street Journal reports. This can help inform decisions on how to shape a study—but ultimately the company’s goal is to make health care more preventive, Coravos says. View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
Yoffie added that in the near future, "we won't be talking about Internet companies as something distinct because the Net will be so integrated into everything we do." That integration, panelist Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
work for (including the 2020 Boston Business Journal list), and Gardner is proud of the culture he has created at the company. “Our product is based on the idea that each provider has relative strengths and weaknesses—attributes that can... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
thank them as often as I can." Jenrette, who was a journalism major at the University of North Carolina, is a talented storyteller, and the pages of his book include anecdotes from his Wall Street career, descriptions of gala parties held... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
beginning a distinguished two-decade academic career that culminated in his appointment, beginning July 1, as the School’s tenth Dean at age 48. A specialist in organizational behavior and leadership, Nohria has coauthored or coedited sixteen books and written dozens... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
climbed, survival was no longer a day-to-day proposition, and the company began a gradual ascent into profitability. Fame and Fortune If the story of Shafir's drawn-out battle to build a company sounds familiar, it may be because it was recounted last spring in a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
everything’s over in an hour. Zoë’s approach allows her to say the things that I can’t say, and vice versa. Does having this complement of approaches help fill out a fuller picture? ZC: It can be challenging to feel that way when our papers are sent to View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of cartilage and muscle), the Wall Street Journal (July 8, 2011)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism can make a difference in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Strategy, among other works, and his latest book, Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms, will be published this year by Harvard University Press. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
followed with its own business school ranking. The two publications ruled the market for nearly a decade before the FT, Forbes, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal all launched their own rankings between 1999 and 2002. (The Wall... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
perspective," he notes. "When you're out in the world like that, you're an island," Simon continues. "It really brought our family together and made us understand how important it is to share experiences. This trip was a reawakening." — Margie Kelley (Visit the Simon... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
Baker Library: Do you want to know more about how precision medicine rose to the forefront of medical research today? See "A New Initiative on Precision Medicine" published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015. The article... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an... View Details