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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, five African American students arrived at HBS. What they encountered—a predominantly white, male campus—seemed out of step for the times and the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he obtained his federal high school diploma and enrolled at the University of Zurich, where he received... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
with this perspective, of course, and Congress, which makes the laws within which the FCC operates, is trying to overturn the new rules. Congress established the FCC in 1934. Why? Radio was the big broadcast medium of the time, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
say that my success is not about who I am, but whose I am.” —Carla Harris (MBA ’87), a gospel singer and managing director at Morgan Stanley, on the role of God in her life. (New York Times DealBook online, September 15, 2011) “I believe that most View Details
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
a director should step down would almost always prompt a quick resignation. Aside from board withdrawal for the reasons described, acceptance of the "volunteered" resignation prescribed by the job-change rule almost never occurs. And with good reason. As stated in the... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
business and investment—not for ideological reasons, but because experience and research have shown those are the countries that offer the best prospects for growth and can best use the American taxpayer’s valuable dollars.” Regarding... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
“The tone most Americans bring to discussions of Africa is one of pity; pity for people who are poor and helpless,” says Teresa Clarke (MBA 1988, JD 1987, AB 1984). Clarke is working to change that: eliminating those preconceptions by... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
succeeded in cutting all major supply lines to the city, and on September 1, Confederate forces under the command of General John Bell Hood evacuated the area. The next day, Sherman’s army marched in, raising the American flag over city... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
employees, and improve business outcomes through a flexible work strategy. More Alumni Books The New Legions: American Strategy and the Responsibility of Power by Edward B. Atkeson (AMP 64, 1972) ((Rowman and Littlefield)) 5 Fabulous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
to his connection with Elkins, who was founding director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and African American Studies, and a visiting professor at HBS. Elkins... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
active duty. I was shocked — I had already served two tours in Iraq, most recently in Ramadi, where I had led a platoon of forty infantrymen through seven months of some of the worst combat Americans had seen since Vietnam. Besides, I was... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier this year, gatherings sponsored by the African View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
Michael Roberto and published this year, is “Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11.” The case plumbs the background of what will likely be remembered as one of the most tragic organizational failings in American history: the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
brought them so much peace and comfort during a difficult time. The power of that has been understated in medicine, and perhaps in society more broadly. Going forward, I hope we can emphasize that human connection more. Omar Z. Maniya has served on the View Details