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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
deciding to try and come home. White: Hunter, you met these women because you had the managerial skills they needed. But what was it about this music project that spoke to you personally? Heaney: I've loved art my whole life and wanted to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but with the quality and shelf View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
inevitably lose because they paid a premium price. They lose to the people who have more patience and more discipline. Third, it’s easy to talk in the abstract, but in real life you see situations that are just plain mispriced, where an... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
wedding in 2003. Then life got very complicated. Less than twelve months after getting married, Jen was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare cancer of the soft tissue. For two years, she endured painful rounds of chemotherapy in her valiant... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
$200 million - was expected to come from additional ticket sales and sponsorships, souvenir sales, parking, and miscellaneous sources. "We're chugging along," Frazier says, "slightly ahead in committed revenues over incurred expenses." As... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
approximately 20 hours each week to prepping for and attending classes at Union Presbyterian Seminary, where he expects to complete a master's of divinity degree in 2014. "I didn't wake up one morning and say, 'I no longer want to be a... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
The average life expectancy is 20, 25 years old. It’s not a pleasant 20 to 25 years old. The other day, it was unfortunate, I looked on a Duchenne Facebook page, just casually reading it. They had a list of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
car-sharing service that is now a publicly traded, global business. Women are great entrepreneurs, and it takes an entrepreneurial mindset to transform an organization, an industry, and a society. Do you think today's women MBA students have different View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
how this enduring passion has colored his relationships with his family and friends, shaped his romances, and, for better or worse, marked every era of his life—indeed, marked his sense of life itself. Not the Seasons I View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
question, “What business are you really in?” How would you respond? When people come to a matchmaker, their natural expectation is “find me the person I’m looking for.” That is not at all what I consider to be my job. I’m in the happiness... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
Journal, and grew to include everything from magazines to radio and TV stations. Warwick Fairfax (MBA 1987), the founder's great-great grandson, grew up with the expectation that he would someday run the company and carry on the family... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
an excerpt from Neeley’s book focuses on how to counteract feelings of isolation that can crop up in the absence of contact with other team members. In part two, alumni weigh in with their own pros and cons of working from home; part three features a Q&A with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
1953, and he completed his degree in forestry in 1957. At age 23, he and Natty — who had made it clear that she had no intention of spending her life in the Canadian north woods as the wife of a lumberjack — came to Cambridge in pursuit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
federal regulation. So my bottom line is we need a financial product safety commission that ensures some basic safety for American families.” Don’t Expect CEOs in Handcuffs Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw, former chairman of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
changing the field of global development itself. When evaluating programs, “We want to be as quick as possible; we want to encourage iterations,” Esther says. But a lot of nonprofits get, say, a five-year grant to deploy a certain amount of money and are not View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
day.” The speed, reliability, and sheer novelty of the rails called Americans from all walks of life to climb aboard. And they did. In 1890, nearly 500 million people embarked on train journeys, each for an average trip of 24 miles. Small... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
Administration and the founder and codirector of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University. "Our stakeholders expect HBS to be excellent when it comes to their digitally mediated interactions." In this conversation,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
work, asking, “How do I find my purpose?” That’s the wrong question. You don’t find your purpose—you build it. The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose is packed with stories, tips, and activities to teach you how to cultivate more meaning in your View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Mountain: Marietta knows there is no silver bullet for jump-starting the region’s economy and curing the many ills brought on by the collapse of coal and an ongoing opioid epidemic. (Nearly one-third of Harlan County’s almost 28,000 residents live in poverty, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
“consumption-based economy of the early 20th century originated in the face-to-face selling strategies of peddlers and book canvassers of the previous generation.” The book begins in the early 1800s with a look at the hardships of the first New England peddlers who... View Details