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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
inefficiently — amounts that far exceed residential and personal use. And with the global population skyrocketing, the demand for water to sustain, feed, and employ the world’s people is projected to double by 2025. View Details
- 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 eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and results-driven—and it gets the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
a wheelchair handball player for the Dutch National team and competed at the European Handball Tournament in Croatia. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, offers insight into what it means to be a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
financials, people, risk management, opportunity, and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
give the nation’s schools a grade of C or below. That mix of approval locally and misgivings nationally translates into an attitude of “Let’s work to improve the model we’re used to,” according to a September Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll. The survey’s findings indicate... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
John B. Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977). As of the two-year anniversary, 25 regional events have taken place from Miami to Mumbai. In Chicago and New York, audiences were empowered by Associate Professor Amy Cuddy’s explorations into... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rivals, how to grow power and influence without losing the respect of others, how to learn from the rise and fall of predecessors, and how to craft one’s legacy. The Rise and Demise of the Individual by View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman (MPA/MBA ’10), Daniel Gulati (MBA ’11), and W. Oliver Segovia (MBA ’10) (Harvard Business Review Press) Recent Harvard MBAs share personal stories about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Alumni Books Sex and the Siren: Tales of a Later Dater by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37, 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) A witty, satirical look at the dating prospects, sexual exploits, and other adventures of a mature single woman in... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services
CEO of cloud data company Tableau; before that, he spent 11 years working alongside Jassy, running sales, marketing, and support at AWS. As reported by CNN, Jassy cited that experience, as well as Selipsky’s many skills—including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
lives. A Political Economy of Justice Edited By Danielle Allen; Yochai Benkler; Leah Downey; Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor; and Joshua Simons University of Chicago Press... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager It’s not lonely at the top anymore. Today’s CEO has an average of 10 direct reports, according to new research by Associate Professor Julie Wulf, Maria Guadalupe of Columbia Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
by Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor Robert Stickgold, who recently published the first scientific study on dreams in 40 years. Professor Michael Norton interviewed best-selling author Michael Lewis about his latest book, The... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
lead to problems of its own. David A. Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, has helped lead a team of scholars from across the country to examine how to mitigate or prevent regulatory capture by looking at the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
open-minded about what I could do," says Fung. "He was a visionary." So William took on the challenge and went to work. Six months later, he presented a plan to professionalize Li & Fung's management by... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes