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- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
through either internal or external growth," he predicts. The hope, of course, is that consolidation will heighten efficiency and increase a company's ability to locate new sources of oil, resulting in more... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
convenience items, including DVD rentals. By 2005, McDonald’s had allowed Kaplan to spin off Redbox and seek outside investors for the business (which came to focus exclusively on DVD rentals); in 2009, McDonald’s sold its share to Coinstar, an early investor that now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, emphasized that the violence must stop before any hope for peace can be reestablished. Both... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
for it was apparent that a substantial portion of the Business School population was present." The students' May 12 program included constructive discussions on topics ranging from riot control techniques to... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Harvard Crimson reported on March 3, 1965, that the equipment (four turntables, a 50-watt transmitter, a main control panel, and lots of old 78s) was sold to Winthrop House, one View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
CEO Aaron Feurstein of Malden Mills On a bitter-cold December night in 1995, a devastating fire—driven out of control by gale-force winds—raged through the factory complex... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
What can I say—even at nine years old, it spoke to me about assuming control over one's life. Twenty-five years later, after HBS, strategy consulting, and brand management, I chucked it all and decided I was a writer. Thank you, Benjamin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
business, politics, media, and the arts. With a personal fortune estimated by Forbes to surpass $3.5 billion, Schwarzman has come a long way since leaving Lehman Brothers in 1985 to cofound Blackstone with start-up capital of $400,000.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Illustrations by Josh Cochran When actor Jeffrey Tambor stepped to the podium at this year’s Golden Globe Awards to accept the honor of Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy, he did so for a show that didn’t premiere on HBO,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
about email? That it’s dead, or that young people have moved away from it in favor of social media. Young people see the flaws inherent in social media when it comes to privacy, data protection, and fraud. In our opinion, email is much... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
HBS, HMS, and Harvard’s School of Public Health. Two case protagonists were in attendance: Dr. Paul Farmer, an HMS professor and the subject of the best-seller Mountains Beyond Mountains, and Dr. Agnes... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
normal operations but to put some or all of their revenues and salaries into an escrow account controlled by a trusted outside party. In the American Airlines case, planes would continue flying, but a large... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
because we're doing the right things, but newspapers in larger markets that should be bigger than us have had a massive disinvestment in journalism and content. WE'VE WON NINE Pulitzers. We're pretty proud of that. ONE THAT really stands... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
automotive company Aptiv for the first autonomous commercial rollout in 2018. To date, customers have logged about 25,000 driverless rides and awarded them an average of 4.94 out of 5 stars. (A human pilot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
extending the idea that information could be used not just for after-the-fact scorekeeping but for real-time managerial decision-making. In particular, he was in the vanguard of advancing the idea that information could be used to plan... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
as successful. Ron Kurtz (MBA ’67) Miami, FL Private-Equity Lessons Don’t Apply Professor Malcolm Salter’s article “Enron’s Legacy” in the December issue seems to offer an “if pigs had wings” analysis of Enron’s board View Details