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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
the proceedings. Photos by Stuart Cahill For the hundreds of MBA students and their families assembled on a hot and steamy Baker Lawn last June, Class Day 2004 was an occasion for mixed emotions. Several of the event’s speakers juxtaposed... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
The Internet is becoming as familiar a presence in households and offices as the telephone, but, like many big ideas, it was once no more than a twinkle in someone's magazine story. Writing in the days before computers had even become commonplace in American life,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
sector has been dominated by big players. A few buyers like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland dominate global commodity trades, while a cluster of conglomerates like Monsanto and DuPont control vital farm... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
One of the cultural amenities of life on the HBS campus is the availability of free music concerts in the Class of 1959 Chapel. Designed by Moshe Safdie in 1992, the chapel and its adjoining clock tower were funded View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
to Lead" and sponsored by the student-run Entrepreneurship Club, offered a fresh look at today's changing entrepreneurial environment. Guy Kawasaki, founder and CEO of the venture-capital investment bank Garage.com, kicked off the October... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
giving annually to the HBS Fund, in honor of his 50th Reunion, Waite decided to leave a lasting legacy at the School by including it in his will. HBS recognized his commitment by welcoming him into the John... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty:... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
courageous, strategic, fast, and right.” CURRENT READING Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper “Today, eBay does more than double the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange. And eBay does it 24/7.” Meg... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
others. It helped me see that everyone’s behavior is purposeful.” ON LEADERSHIP “The most important thing about leadership is character. You can’t fake character. Integrity is a binary state: Either you have it or you don’t.” CURRENT READING Hot, Flat, and Crowded,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
’85) and Daniel Stelter (McGraw-Hill) Examining the decisive actions taken by companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Procter & Gamble to accelerate out of past downturns, the authors show today’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
titled "Foundations of a Theory of Organizations," students gain insights into human behavior through reading Daniel Goleman's popular work Emotional Intelligence. They expand their perspective on the use of knowledge in society View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
elective taught by faculty adviser and senior lecturer Daniel Isenberg. EGG: Engineering Global Growth. Why Africa? Alla “So many people see Africa as a place of violence and corruption. Having lived there,... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty market View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
alumni in the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening also featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Chris Malloy, Associate Professor Amy Cuddy, recent graduate Cory... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
participate in a panel discussion with seven leaders in the field of humanitarian relief and development was handed a packet of oral-rehydration salts. The January 15 panel, one of a series of presentations in the School's "Rising to the Challenge" program organized... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
Illustrations by Chris Gash Illustrations by Chris Gash It sounded like a cynical money grab, a 90-minute commercial that no adult would willingly watch. But The LEGO Movie, released in 2014, surprised... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
ultimately lies not on the R&D or the tech itself, but rather in the scale of the business. “Unlike most of the chemical or energy industry, where you have to build mammoth plants in order to be economically viable, we want to become... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
“Number, please” was the oft-repeated request made by the more than 100,000 mostly female switchboard operators in the early 20th century. Anyone who had a telephone grew to know the familiar voices that connected them to the outside... View Details