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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
accomplishment from both sides of the Charles. "Robert Merton has been an innovative leader in the field of economic valuations and in improving the capacity to manage financial risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "This is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory system. “Until we find solutions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
the Class of ’08, current students, and employer relations,” says MBA Career Services Managing Director Jana Pompadur Kierstead. “We’ll be adding to our career coaching staff, compiling a résumé book for the Class of ’08, and doing more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
has made that topic elusive, for a lot of reasons, with the methods that we use. Zoë, your study of schmoozing and the old boys’ club drew on big data sets. How do you use data to isolate the forces at play in a workplace setting? ZC:... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
last fifteen years, entrepreneurship is "the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled." Given the dynamic forces at work in today's economy and the intensity of worldwide competition, the lessons of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and shortcomings of American View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
Professor James K. Sebenius, examines the change process through a negotiating lens. The dramatized negotiation involves interactions between a manager responsible for a critical project and other managers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
year. After graduating from Queen's, Minto took a job at Colgate-Palmolive Canada. She soon became known for her flair - presenting products to the company's sales force while zooming about in hockey gear... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard and deep look at what’s happening in terms of View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
Now in the midst of his second three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company, Rajat Gupta sits in a corner office on the 29th floor of a Chicago skyscraper, overlooking Lake Michigan and the Windy City's financial district.... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
calamitous for the United States as well. What's been the impact of NAFTA on the current situation? Unquestionably, Mexico must modernize its economy; NAFTA is a vital component of that. But when you force a peasant using slash-and-burn... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
and improved customer relationship management opportunities. We're really talking about fundamental changes in how people communicate, get information, and conduct business. Wired for Success Pat Russo worked for eight years in View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
his wife's salary as a sales representative at Wang, Shafir struggled to grow his business, barely keeping ahead of his creditors each month. Finally in 1993, new financing from another relative provided enough cushion to allow Shafir to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in evidence. A petition urging corporate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
sire, he's a relatively inexperienced sire,” Klarman told the Baltimore Sun. “When the trainer loved him at the sale physically and he vetted clean, we made the decision to buy him.” Many noted that Cloud Computing came to the Preakness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
Aragon worked alongside Executive Producer Ruby Kam (HBS '03) and Production Manager Jonathan Mendelson (MBA '02). “The talent here is amazing,” said Kam. “People come to HBS to get a business degree, but many have talents far beyond the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
real positive characteristics.” The future of venture capital sits in two sectors, Breyer predicted—artificial intelligence and China. This summer, Breyer and IDG Capital Partners, the Chinese company he joined forces with in 2005,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many... View Details