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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
second-year Managing Innovation course. He assigned all 105 students in his two sections to field projects with Ford, General Electric, NASA, and Nike. “Since the course is about innovation, the projects all involved areas in which the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
inspired an expanded menu of opportunities for alumni to contribute their wisdom, time, and talents across the HBS community. Long involved in small pockets of campus activities, alumni are now returning to Soldiers Field in larger... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jamie Chang
health care, so that we can best use the limited resources we have to bring about the most healing possible. I also want to get involved personally, to heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually in a patient's most important time of... View Details
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
and evolve in coming years. This policy revises and clarifies the School’s previous policy on faculty involvement in student ventures and extends it to cover student involvement in faculty ventures. Guiding... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
two hundred young HBS alumni face-to-face with experienced "angels" (backers willing to forgo much of the business involvement and control that traditional venture capitalists typically demand). The sold-out event, which drew participants... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
Image by Greg Betza Image by Greg Betza When Serena Williams announced her retirement earlier this month, there was plenty of talk of the tennis superstar’s 23 Grand Slam titles. But a number of news outlets also noted her involvement in... View Details
J. Bruce Llewellyn
Llewellyn was involved in a wide variety of business ventures, almost all of which were extremely profitable. He excelled at leveraged buy-outs, and two years after accomplishing a buy-out of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Profile
Brett Laffel
Why was getting a business education important to you? Obtaining a business education was important to me because my past work experience involved learning a very narrow and specific skill set and I wanted to obtain a more general... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
involved with grassroots organizations in the Los Angeles area such as the Coalition for Clean Air and Heal the Bay, which is dedicated to cleaning up Santa Monica Bay. Through the Horn Foundation, which they founded in 1989, the couple... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process” But there's a dearth... View Details
John F. Welch, Jr.
Though he had the full support of GE’s board, Welch’s first few years as CEO consisted of extensive cost cutting plans, some of which involved controversial divestitures of GE subsidiaries. Having successfully streamlined the company,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
William Fox
"Carmen" starring Theda Bara in 1915. In the late 1920s, Fox competed vigorously with Warner Brothers, the only other studio involved in sound production. Fox is credited with producing such movie classics as Cleopatra, Les... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 23 Feb 2022
HBS College Programs Series: Canada
Come learn about the ways you can get involved with HBS as a college student. This includes our deferred admission process for college seniors, 2+2, and our MBA preview experiences Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and Summer Venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Student Real Estate Champs
A team of six MBA students from HBS won the fourth annual National Real Estate Challenge, held at the University of Texas in November. Teams from sixteen MBA programs spent two days evaluating a case involving an investment in a high-end... View Details
John R. Sculley
Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs was difficult for many to digest,... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
Although Andrew Tisch might attribute the family’s philanthropic record to nature—“Being involved in the community has always been part of the family DNA,” he says—nurture has played a role as well. Tisch’s parents and aunt and uncle set... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
on information and computer systems, control, environmental and nonprofit management, and production and operations management (POM). He was POM chairman from 1968 to 1972. In retirement, McKenney continued his research on management information systems; one project... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
The nation’s business schools have a responsibility to contribute to that effort, Clark said, describing a special series of workshops on corporate issues undertaken at the School during the past academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values, the... View Details
Floyd L. Carlisle
Carlisle purchased Northern New York Utilities with a group of paper manufacturers, which allowed St. Regis Paper and the other involved paper mills to control their own supply of electric power. Acquiring Hanna Paper Corporation in 1921,... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
documents the details of business involvement in the nonprofit sector and analyzes how volunteerism helps forge links between good deeds and good business. "How do nonprofits figure into the lives of business leaders? And how do business... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross