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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
$5 billion construction investment. “This is the ultimate opportunity,” Moret recalls thinking at the time. He had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of VEDP only about eight months, and the commonwealth was not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
from the office building/landlord. The benefit to the landlord was an additional amenity to retain their existing tenants and to better market vacant space to prospective tenants. The employer and landlord contributions would help defray enough of the upfront View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
future general managers in science- and technology-intensive businesses who seek firsthand exposure to companies constructing global R&D strategies. Financial Management of Smaller Firms focuses on the financial management of firms that... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
value for the program participants.” Groysberg’s leadership of the W50 celebration in 2013, marking 50 years of women’s admission to the full-time MBA Program at HBS, combined with his recent case study on the rand* construction company... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
‘desk’ part of this position would suit me,” says Oakes, an Austin, Texas, native who worked for the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation in Houston before enrolling at HBS. “In my last job, I was always out in the field, on View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
innovative category, promises to “unleash your inner rock star” and is currently offered in 25 US states. Construction for the 15,000-square-foot Harvard Life Lab—featuring a wet lab with 36 benches and a collaborative 50-desk coworking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
he notes, “but I’m in a place where I can influence really important decisions every day, and that’s just where I’ve always wanted to be.” — DB Pushing the Ball Forward: As director of strategic initiatives, Jennifer Houston is overseeing View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
The architects employed open spaces and glass walls in an effort to give Tata Hall a visually light and airy feel. Ratan Tata (second from left) at his namesake building with Dean Nohria, William Rawn, and C.D. Spangler. Photos by Susan Young In 2007, as Dean Jay Light... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
reputed to be one of the richest men of his era, donated $5 million to Harvard University in 1924 to fund the construction of the new HBS campus. Among the artifacts is a finely crafted cherry wood “Resolutions” chest containing... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
between ideas from unrelated fields; challenging common wisdom; scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to find new ways of doing things; constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists howled against this so-called... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
from real estate mode to operating mode, and we launched from scratch—blank sheet of paper—an operating company. Today that company is operating in eight states; we are under construction in Mexico City. We have about 3,000 employees and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
drag on for weeks. Greentech’s solution? Stuntz plans to acquire a small finish-work construction company to guarantee timely completion of future projects. After an initial rush of orders, Greentech’s assembly line fell silent last... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
that restored Mellon Hall. The project gained momentum in the late spring with the precisely orchestrated migration of library materials and over two hundred people from the building. As of July 2, Baker Library was empty, and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Francesca Gino (Dey Street) From an early age, we are taught to be rule followers, and the pressure to fit in only increases as we age. But conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
impact of business and government on society. After graduating from Stanford University in 1971 in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War, she took a freighter to Peru to work for a government agency there that was View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
Ignatius (AMP 191, 2016), chief editor of Harvard Business Review. The 509-foot-long Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the fifth of 14 ships under construction for the Navy. It is equipped with an Aegis Combat System and configured as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
Students helped to rebuild storm-damaged homes “The first thought I had when I heard about the destruction left by Katrina was, ‘Let’s do something about it,’ ” says Anthony D’Avella (HBS ’07). “Here was an opportunity to put our classroom knowledge to work.” Last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details