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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Secondly, we thought we would run it better. The California biotech firm famously failed to produce enough flu vaccine for the U.S. market in 2004. And thirdly, we saw that there was a significant growth opportunity due to new vaccines,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
George is the finance director for the Post Carbon Institute, a California think tank dedicated to promoting sustainable energy that recently examined the Bakken in its report Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
granted. Morrell: Alex Lazarow says this focus on deep impact differentiates frontier startups from their California counterparts. Lazarow: In Silicon Valley, less than 20% of unicorns are in industries like financial services, health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunity often lay in the problems that they and their peers faced in their personal lives. Take Michel, for example. A naval flight officer prior to attending HBS, Michel joined a Navy reserve unit in California after graduation.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Heart to Heart, a group of California doctors who volunteer their time to perform heart surgery on Russian infants and children. “When they began their work in 1991,” she reports, “the situation was so dire that there were hundreds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sovereign lands on the ocean floor — at least the size of California and rich in resources — to add to the territory of the United States. In fact, after acceding to the treaty, and completing our mapping of the coastal United States, we... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
came to be known as Silicon Valley. "In those days, the West Coast wasn't nearly the money center it is now," he says. "Entrepreneurs there wanted East Coast money and involvement. To fulfill both those needs, I flew to California three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
for the more than 6 million students in the entire state. Each school in California is already subject to four (overlapping and often inefficient) layers of supervision—at the district, county, state, and federal levels. Does Tim really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
abuse throughout his life and spent fifteen years homeless on the streets of Las Vegas, far from their California home, before he died in 2003. “My father gave us the biggest gift he could have, which was to leave,” says Landles-Dowling.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
user journey. Luna: What was the CalFresh application process like when you guys first started working on it, and what is it like now? Ingersoll: The California application process is a 45-minute application that doesn't work on mobile... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
a primary source of inspiration. Curiel, 18, walked away from that same deadly crash with minor injuries. He sees some symbolism in the fact that his father was making the trip from Oregon to California to take him to freshman orientation... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
his experiences with his board and about critical issues relating to governing nonprofit organizations today. The event was hosted by the HBS Community Partners, a group established by the HBS Association of Northern California in 1986 to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
Aerosoles from Target and from the Aerosoles store. And then, I would wear a jacket and headscarf from the Islamic clothing store in Anaheim, California to really blend in so that nobody noticed us. And the truth is that, that-- then by... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
California held its GNN gathering at The Foundry in San Francisco, where a happy hour and networking complemented a fireside chat on Artificial Intelligence with Andrew Brackin, a partner at Gradient Ventures. * The HBS Club of France... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
California and the charming village of St-Rémy-de-Provence. In this unique guidebook, the authors share their favorite things to see and do, both the well-known and the insider secrets. An Insider’s Guide to Provence is designed as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
course before leaving for California in the morning, she arrives carrying a pile of books and papers. She’s considered one of the School’s preeminent management “gurus,” a title that has inevitably attached itself to her ability to... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
impact work is a great way to achieve that.” HBS Hacks: Solving for the Future of Work in San Francisco The HBS Association of Northern California Community Partners program co-organized with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley