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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
of all of southern and much of eastern Africa," he noted. Having lived in Africa for several years, Hartwell is familiar with the difficulties of the region. "I came away from the conference a bit more optimistic than I thought," he said.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
awards and accolades from the World Economic Forum, the Wall Street Journal, and MIT’s Technology Review. “This is a $170 billion market screaming for a fundamental innovation,” says Evans. “It’s a fantastic opportunity.” Most recently CEO of the tech company Plastic... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
afforded Middlebrooks precious peace of mind at work, knowing her children were in a safe, loving, and familiar environment. In addition, she credits husband William, who owns a customer service and training firm, with sharing equally in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Godine) For more than four decades, Williams and his wife formed the most comprehensive and adventurous treasury of American prints ever assembled by private collectors. Their 6,000 prints cover both familiar and totally unknown ground.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea of kids wearing helmets to play soccer is something he would... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
economic principles or who are not yet highly skilled in English. "We invite these students in early and provide them with an intensive language immersion and acculturation program," Walker explains. "During this period, they get to know the community and become View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
faculty-led immersions and the student-organized treks familiar to many HBS alums. “Part of the experience is asking students to go out and find a business problem or opportunity, which is something you’ll have to do over and over as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
vocation Prieto started taking intensive conducting courses at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine and lessons at the Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts. The technical material, the mastering of scores—that came easy to Prieto. He had been intimately View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they’ve gotten used to the way things currently work. And so, if you don’t take behavioral change... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
artificial intelligence and machine learning? Where are their heads at? Dubinsky: Well, there's a mix of course. Like anything. One thing I would note is the students today have much more familiarity with it than the students of last year... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
other person up or be dragged down by the other person. You're familiar with this feeling. You're like, your bad mood is making me upset, or just shake it off, let's just go to the park, I don't want to worry about this dinner, we'll just... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
people familiar with charts that are dynamic and show progress...that can help us circumvent any infighting and keep moving forward,” she says. Those innocuous pie charts were a flag planted on a hill—a statement that “business as usual”... View Details