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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
questions. Yet, the conceptions of business that each question implies can be (and historically have tended to be) mutually exclusive. Everybody wants goods and services made available at low prices. But achieving that goal often means... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute
Harvard Business School has contributed a six-figure gift to the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which will be established as an integral part of Harvard University as a result of Radcliffe College's merger with the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 07 Feb 2024
- News
The Sound of Success
A groundbreaking gene therapy developed by Akouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company founded in 2016 by Emmanuel (Manny) Simons (MBA 2012), has enabled an 11-year-old boy from Morocco to hear sounds for the first time. According to a recent New York Times... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
cuts that eviscerated core services such as street sweeping and litter-bin collection. The results were both predictable and unpleasant: a “visibly filthier” city, to use Tisch’s phrase, and an exploding rat problem. The funding and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
came about over 25 years, the result of another civic- and business-led effort. And it’s wonderful, many agree. But there are still a good number of Chattanooga residents who’ve been left out of the picture. As in so many American cities,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking system... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North America—or Turtle Island—stretch back millennia. Drawing on comparative analysis, firsthand Indigenous accounts, extensive historical writings, and his own experience, Omaha... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management was secretive about it because... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
with the division of British-ruled India into two independent countries: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. It resulted in the displacement of an estimated 15 million people and the deaths of hundreds of thousands—some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Georgia. In their travels, they discovered numerous abandoned churches—and many small but thriving congregations. The duo photographed and documented their histories, first on a popular website and now in a coffee-table book, Historic... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
Historical Collections and faculty interaction surround the north, river-facing lobby, and the new south entrance is home to The Exchange, a gathering place offering real-time news and business information. Faculty offices line the upper... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
professionals must make a critical shift in their mindset: from hours worked to results produced. (See page 18 for a Q&A with Pozen.) Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests by Gunnar Trumbull (Harvard University Press)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the headquarters of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with leading divisional managers at each of the NAVSEA WC’s 10 subsidiaries. He also was responsible for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden. Recalling that historic event, Mullen praises President Obama and gives the Navy SEALs credit for the success of the operation. “It was a privilege to lead... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
compensate. If all Spring Reunion classes participate fully, it would result in a 15-acre forest of 7,600 trees, absorbing over 5.8 million pounds of carbon dioxide. Attendance at an HBS Business and Environment Initiative conference in... View Details