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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
has also written articles for many publications, including Management Science, Public Administration Review, Annals of the History of Computers, and the Harvard Business Review. A 1952 graduate of Purdue University, where he received a BS... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
neighbors. That approach attracted Karen and Mickey Taylor, owners of Seattle Slew. The only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history also enjoyed great success in the breeding shed, siring over 100 Stakes winners with combined earnings... 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 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
schools, and one school with a history of poor academic performance gave up its charter. Since the charters were authorized in the 1990s, 26 have closed, representing a 33 percent closure rate. It's a necessary check on taxpayers'... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
took care of us. It was the right time in the right place. And we had a very good time together for 12 years. So it was really a wonderful thing. Morrell: You've spent so much time in this book thinking about your own personal history and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
mindsets, behaviors, and actions they need to pursue. Launching the Navy Family Support Program: A Heartfelt Blend of History and Memoir by Ann O’Keefe, Ed.D. (PMD 26, 1973) Self-published Part historical account, part memoir, O’Keefe’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
because it’s about the process of assessing someone else: How do you do that structurally? How do you do it as an individual? And it shows that your history plays a huge role in how you behave. Rob Parson believed in his bones that if he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
were facing. He radiated warmth while he shared his views on the future of education in modern business conduct. At the end of our encounter, I received a copy of A Delicate Experiment, a history of HBS, with a very personalized... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of emeriti professors Charlie... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of our efforts on small molecules, like pills that you would take every day—Lipitor, Viagra, these... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
Yeah. My fifth grade teacher, Gwendolyn Davis, was about the most terrifying educator I had ever had up to that point and probably since. I mean, sort of imagine the terror of a first year at HBS cold call, and amplify it by about a million, and that's her. And so,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
town in the center of the book-- and I gave it a little bit of history of how the place seemed very familiar to me, yet it seemed very different to outsiders. And Dali town has become sort of like the mecca for backpackers and for a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Iraqi war veteran and pointedly supporting the President in the war on terror. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard in 1995, Taylor joined the Marine Corps, completed infantry and intelligence training, led a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
corporation’s stakeholders beyond the shareholder is that they are vital to the long-term successful economic performance of the corporation. Some argue that only the interests of the shareholders should be considered by directors. The thrust of View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
planet. The lesson of history is that making business sustainable is a hard journey, littered with system-wide roadblocks, but it is a journey that is possible and one that is urgently needed. Compassionate Management of Mental Health in... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. There's this Teddy Roosevelt quote about struggle that I came across recently that I really like. Roosevelt said, "There's never yet been a man in our View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
getting to 40 or 45. So I am literally half as good, in this abstract sense, as I used to be. And that's part of, even when I began, I thought it would be interesting to be able to keep a 30-year history and say, OK, from the age of... View Details