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- 01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Putting the significance of the accomplishment into perspective, Bricklin's friend and Lotus Development Corporation founder Mitchell Kapor has likened the spreadsheet's impact on the computer era to the building of the transcontinental... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Business on the Internet." Peter Granoff, whose company Virtual Vineyards sells wine exclusively over the Internet, and Steve Kirsch, president and CEO of the Internet search service InfoSeek, were among four panelists who discussed... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada’s roommate. “As a kid, I’d get a steady dose of, ‘You need to start thinking beyond yourself. There’s so much you can do in terms of impacting society.’ As a result, I actually did grow up thinking that, and felt it was my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
outbreak sites. It primed political leaders to understand both the far-reaching consequences of outbreaks and the need to make rapid containment a high priority. SARS stimulated efforts to find ways to lessen the impact of the next... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
the state-owned power company, is one of the best electric companies in the world," says Vietor, adding that South Africa is the continent's primary provider of electricity. In a recent Cape Times article describing ESKOM's importance in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company actually admitting that to themselves and to the public—then... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
multiplying its impact on management education, explained Nohria. Last year for the first time, over half of the new cases were about companies outside the United States. “These cases are being used not just... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
formally retired in 1990, he continued to write, teach, and offer seminars on case-method teaching until the last months of his life. Thousands of his students, including HBS professor Michael E. Porter, have never forgotten the impact he... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
to think through it yourself. When I taught in a management program in Turin in 1953, an Italian assistant of mine commented that lecture courses had the impact of water over marble: very smooth, leaving little trace. The B-School was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
inevitably lose because they paid a premium price. They lose to the people who have more patience and more discipline. Third, it’s easy to talk in the abstract, but in real life you see situations that are just plain mispriced, where an ignored, neglected, or abhorred... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
stock, GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) made the decision to cut the company's annual dividend for the first time since 1938. It was gutting for Immelt. He knew the financial impact such a move would have not just on the company, but also on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the Student Association (SA) and began one of the most active tenures of any SA president in recent memory. "I was motivated by the people at HBS and wanted to make a positive impact on the community," explains the friendly and outgoing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
the mix, and I really couldn't find anything that I liked about myself. However, I pretended everything was fine on the outside. So externally, everyone thought I had it together, certainly during business school, certainly post-business school when I became CEO of a... View Details