Filter Results:
(351)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(805)
- People (2)
- News (351)
- Research (240)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (68)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(805)
- People (2)
- News (351)
- Research (240)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (68)
Sort by
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009) ran past the Anderson Memorial Bridge every morning and took note of the sentiments affixed to its parapet: May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says Ratajczak, a white View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
It's the first day of class at HBS, and students introduce themselves one by one, proudly enumerating their accomplishments. Finally a young man with a long black braid rises from his seat. "I don't have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
employment, to create wealth for themselves, and for their communities, and their families. When a woman makes $1, about 90% of their income is spent on health, education and nutrition. And that same statistic for a View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
high-performing facilities would attract more patients, boosting revenues. Costs would stabilize because hospitals would compete among themselves on the basis of prices, services, and results for the consumer. View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
what's important to you and what you stand for; values are critical to success and happiness. Get yourself a compass and forget the clock. It is far more important to know in what direction you are headed than how fast you are going." CURRENT READING The View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
That’s the essence of the formula.” For a man with a global track record of winning investments, Nelson has not strayed far from his Rhode Island roots. After graduating from... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
around in the fridge, he cocks an ear toward the snippets of TV news in the background: “Labor unrest...Organized crime...Protesting pensioners.” Welcome to Belgrade and the legacy of Milosevic. Now meet the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
man at the negotiating table, offered this assessment: “The WTO agreement has been very useful leverage for the Chinese government to advance economic change and to change mindsets,” he explained, calling it “a classic case View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Platform) Set in the late sixties, this romantic novel is about love, longing, and coming of age. It follows the lives of three main protagonists—a young man traveling in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Search, and eighty people turned out for a signing at a bookstore in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. During the Q&A part of his talk, we heard stories that can break your heart. One man said he’d been out... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
fulfilling Corti's dream of piloting a plane around the globe. "Flying always seems miraculous to me -- it's a triumph of man over nature," says Corti, who at the time View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
recognition in the field I was pursuing." Today, as CFO of a hot new Internet company called Excite@Home, the self-described "introspective" executive is getting plenty of attention. Goldman is busy helping... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
for the ticket, explaining to his friend: "This man has a business to run, and you are stealing from him." Similarly, during a pro-Reaganomics discussion in his BGIE class, Donelson spoke about the pain his community experienced as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
will have to grow, says NFL executive vice president Eric Grubman (MBA 1987). A 10-year veteran of the league, who in 2013 was ranked the ninth most powerful man in the NFL by Sports Illustrated, Grubman... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
AL GORDON, 2006: With Wall Street integrity and Harvard loyalty as constants, a lifetime of taking the long view. Albert H. Gordon (MBA ’25), the man known as “Mr. Harvard,” whose name graces the road that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on... View Details