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- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
death in 2019. “I tell my kids about their grandpa and I say, you can’t imagine how hard he worked for everything he had,” says Bishop. In creating value for his clients, Waite also created a better life for his greatest legacy, his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
the attacks of September 11, 2001, Williams walked away from business altogether. “That was a horrible year, both personally, with the death of my sister, and geopolitically,” he says. “I decided to throw myself into traveling and the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
family's fine wine-and-spirits business," Bussel says. But in 2006, when a close friend died unexpectedly, Bussel had an epiphany. "His death made me realize that if I wanted to do something in life, this was the time to do it," she says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
nearly 75,000 patrons in the United States and abroad, and produced a performance and global simulcast of an opera, Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, that featured robots. In Fort Worth, he’ll be co-leading the search for a new music... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Dr. Abraar Karan took the stage in custom-made ties adorned with cartoon mosquitos. With Hour 72+, they hope to minimize deaths caused by mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria, dengue fever, and zika virus. “For us it’s exciting, but for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
evidence has shown that social behavior—including helping others—improves our mental and physical health and extends life expectancy. One study on mortality following 7,000 people found that the risk of death among men and women with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
amply rewarded; over the course of ten years, annual profits of WDC went from $291 million to $1.11 billion under the management of Eisner (CEO and chairman) and Wells (president and COO). By the mid-1990s, however, storm clouds had gathered over the Magic Kingdom.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time, she explains, can be a matter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Thelma Olexa (AuthorHouse) Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins (MBA ’57) (Gotham Books) Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built by Dennis M. Powers (MBA ’69) (Kensington... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
60 percent. I remember one shift at the end of March where we were crushed by the number of patients, and for the first time in my career I had to specifically schedule extra time after my shift to complete all of the death certificates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Death Star,’” recalls Crespin, the founder of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that specializes in tackling big societal problems and bridging difficult, cross-sector relationships. He adds, “The environmental people had their arms... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
geographic spread,” she says, “the virus has extended to affect a wider range of animals than we’ve ever seen before. It’s infecting cats, for example, and has even caused the death of tigers. It has a high fatality rate in humans; we... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
it is for every person on the team to feel they can speak up and challenge the established points of view from leadership. We may not be putting people in life or death situations in spaceships, but I do think the success of the VR... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
ice and an accessible Arctic, it is still a cold, dark, forbidding place that requires special provisions and extensive preparation. Last spring, we mourned the deaths of two sailors on a British submarine; the summer before that, two... View Details