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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
with the event. We will definitely be hosting more networking events in this format, as it looks like we’ll be virtual into 2021.” The HBS Club of South Florida welcomed 10 alumni to a virtual discussion about the Future of Work, sharing their insights from their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
readable account of some of the landmarks of McArthur's tenure. "This is a pocket history of HBS that gives insight into how the School operates," McCraw recently told the Bulletin. "It also provides a personal View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in the toy View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
which built the large machines that automate the production of cardboard boxes. “I’ve always been wired operationally,” says Thomas, who majored in industrial engineering at Stanford University before coming to HBS. That background,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
denominator. My own industry is no small part of the problem. We, too, are seeking niches. The fragmentation of the news media means Americans no longer have to listen to the serious discussion of ideas with which they might disagree. If... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United States in 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
companies (in terms of both stock market and accounting measures) that adopted almost none of these policies. Energized by Eccles’s work, the effort to advance integrated corporate reporting as a vehicle for transforming capitalism is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
if you walk into Best Buy and purchase a cell phone, we run your credit score and activate the account so you can walk out with a phone that’s ready to use. We tie together the retailers that sell digital services with the providers of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
for example, Kanter worked with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts on a forum held at HBS in April 1994, which helped stimulate the formation of the Alliance for the Commonwealth, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a regional focus, with 55... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
debt, asleep-at-the-wheel boards of directors, and multiple mega-bankruptcies. We have watched with disbelief the disintegration of a major accounting firm, the discrediting of an alarming number of CEOs, and the growth of a widespread... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
has allowed the West’s growing prosperity, but this ideal is now being challenged by governmental bodies that were founded on this very principle. Wagnière examines the dangers that arise when governments push toward collectivism and ignore individual freedom. He... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman and CEO Batten offers a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
the high-tech industry? Growth. I had learned as a banker [at Philadelphia National Bank] that most career opportunities are presented by areas that are growing quickly, and the personal computer industry fit that description. I was also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental... View Details