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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
electric monopoly. Two classmates joined Maddy at Adesemi — Côme Laguë (MBA 1993), who served as CFO and today is CEO of Zetta Research, and Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993), an early investor who was killed on September 11, 2001, as a passenger on the first plane from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Astronaut, Apollo 13 Lovell Read complete profile. In 1970 the world watched as Commander James Lovell and his crew scrambled to convert their lunar module into a lifeboat when their cryogenic oxygen system failed. It was Lovell who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step back in time. While most... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
that organizes coffee farmers, links them directly to coffee importers, and guarantees a premium over the prevailing price being paid on the international market. Starbucks has been quick to respond in times of crisis, too. When terrorists attacked the View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
consumers at the bottom of the pyramid. “We used to think we could figure things out in the developed world and dumb it down for emerging markets,” she says. “In fact, it needs to happen the other way around — the bottom of the pyramid... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
and employs 1,149 people. Political fallout from 9/11 has profoundly changed the operations of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the independent public agency that operates Boston’s Logan International Airport. After hijackers crashed two jetliners from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
blocky, mid-20th-century towers that represent the toughest cases. In the decades after World War II, as air-conditioning and fluorescent lighting became standard, floor plates grew to proportions that would accommodate View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
local artisans and the timber trade without degrading the land. Are there similarities between your work in Costa Rica and the Massachusetts Audubon project you tackled after returning to Boston? The plan in Boston was a high-profile,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Alumni Books Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges by Joanna Barsh (MBA 1981) (McGraw-Hill Education) To answer the question, how do real people succeed in the real world of work? Barsch presents the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
have the greatest impact. She may be a COO, but Heidi Brooks is much more than a number-cruncher sitting at a desk all day. A woman of action, occasionally she trades in her pantsuit and briefcase for a cargo vest and backpack. In 2012,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Corporations in the world. “What I have been doing for the past three years is making connections—working with trade groups, universities, municipalities, NGOs, and other entities—and traveling around the state, inspiring companies to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and structural changes in the View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
organic practices. SFP provides the land and contributes to paying expenses; operators provide the labor, equipment, and fuel. The program is designed to deliver a stable income to investors in the fastest-growing segment of the food industry––organic foods. According... View Details