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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and business leaders are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,” notes View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Massport came in for withering public criticism over lax security. The CEO abruptly resigned. And a special commission appointed by the governor concluded that years of political interference had eroded the agency’s ability to function in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
time. The decision was practical and personal: Her goal upon graduation was to land a well-paying job to support her fiancé through law school; once he’d completed his degree, it would be her turn to attend. The engagement ended, but Snyder does not regret her View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
understandable concerns about their ability to maintain and utilize them over time." Post-Games Wrap-Up Mosley began working with ACOG in 1992. Supported by a team of six lawyers, and View Details
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
thrive in the coming decades, the debate must not end there. A growing number of international business leaders agree. In 1990, nearly fifty heads of major corporations (including several HBS alumni), led by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
succeeding? "ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability" (with Rachel Gordon). As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
spoke about. There’s another case of Canavan disease that has been recently worked on and has yet to go into clinical trial, although it is expected to by early next year. So you start to see these N=1 cases... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
over-do it? This case certainly applies to Westmoreland as well as to any company rethinking its market focus: Are you boxing yourself in? Could you be passing the point of no return? A typical HBS case closes with the question, "What... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
other urban centers. Then in 1888, Julian Sprague, a young inventor who had worked with Thomas Edison, convinced the West End Street Railway Company of Boston to equip its city with streetcars powered by... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
depends upon the decisions of two or three people in the oil business— that's the leader of Saudi Arabia and the president of Mexico, principally," Stobaugh explains. Recent higher prices paid by consumers at the gas pumps aren't the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
director of joint degree programs at HBS. It takes full advantage of greater Boston’s position as one of the world’s largest biotech clusters. The joint degree integrates the essential lessons learned at the lab bench and in the corner office. Students receive business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
School in the fall of 2008, he had been a US Army captain serving in Iraq, but it wasn't until his second year at HBS that a chance conversation directed him to a Veterans Administration program that ultimately paid for his MBA. Motivated... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
just HBS students, probably 90% of all graduates would think about going to work for GE in 1982. In 2021, that might be 50% just because, you know, it's an older company, it's a big company, there's more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
marketing produced the legendary Model T, which put America on wheels and made Ford a business titan. More than 15 million Model T autos were sold in the two decades after its introduction in 1908. But something happened. By 1927, Model T... View Details