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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
from the wisdom and experience of the General, imparted by him through frequent contact and regular visits. Deryck Tweedley (MBA ’58) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Doriot Taught Standards of Behavior Your article on Professor Doriot brought... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Lawrence University Professor “I think the American people are dying to be asked to help solve some of these problems.” —Meg Whitman (MBA ’79), former President & CEO, eBay Inc. “Fear caused by greed needed to be bailed out with $700... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
Newman's Own, Inc., lunched with Dean Kim B. Clark, and fielded students' questions at an informal hour-long gathering sponsored by the Social Enterprise Club. The case, written by Initiative on Social... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
to the case method of separating the wheat from the chaff.) Nixon led McGovern in our Presidential class poll, the reverse of '73's, probably because fully 38 percent of our class were veterans. Thanks to Professor John Kotter, there's no... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
keep pushing ourselves forward,” says Frey, who completed the final leg of his journey in April 2016 by sailing 6,000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Drawn to the ocean as a young boy... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Laura A. Liswood (MBA '76) is cofounder and secretary-general of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), an independent, international organization based at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Made up of many of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
years, unit members have studied numerous organizations, ranging from Taco Bell to Intuit, to determine what maximizes profit and growth in service organizations. In so doing, they have formulated a key business dynamic that they term the "service-profit chain,"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
meantime, planning for the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Berlin continues apace, and we are thrilled to see that as of late April, close to one thousand people had registered to attend. This is clearly a record -- and a testament to the compelling program arranged... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Tisch has long been committed to numerous philanthropic and social causes, including the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, a public high school established by his wife, Ann, in 1996 to provide a single-sex educational option... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Back in 1985, when Michael Jackson paid what at the time was an eye-popping $47.5 million for ATV Music—and with it the Beatles’s back... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
didn’t know what body we would be born into, an idea from A Theory of Justice by John Rawls. If that were true, we would create a society that was best for the worst-off people. I admired Buffett for being... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
delivers easy-to-use, feature-rich Web site and club management services to alumni clubs and associations. The move came in response to requests from clubs for more technical assistance, says John Beckvold, director of finance and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until 1983. “It was a remarkable... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
phenomenon for Thai banks,” but the response has been overwhelmingly favorable. While Banthoon's first desire was to study medicine, his father sent him to Exeter, Princeton, and HBS; he returned the favor by joining the family business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
INK-STAINED ORACLE: Buffett's Media General bid focused on small-town papers. AP Photo/Nati Harnik by Deborah Blagg In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three... View Details