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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
offered again in 2019. Through case discussions and interactions with 15 alumni guest speakers, most of whom traveled from Africa, students explored multinationals, regulation and compliance, public-private partnerships, and what makes... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
Conjure, if you can, a mental picture of air travel in its heyday. All the delights you’re probably envisioning right now—indulgent meal service, bottomless beverage carts, perhaps even pillbox hats—were provided by the airlines, says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
zones so that traffic could be run more safely and efficiently. The first rudimentary boxcars and (open-air) wooden passenger benches were also transformed. By the 1870s, prosperous travelers slept and dined in Pullman Palace Cars... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
who find better ways to address these needs will add value through new companies and services. James Dimon (MBA ’82) Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dimon Read complete profile. Before joining JPMC in 2004, Jamie Dimon had been a top executive at Salomon Smith... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
unfolded, with the plant manager himself fielding some of the queries. Boston’s unpredictable winters can also complicate travel and transport. But when a severe snowstorm brought the city to a halt last March, “students at home simply... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
Susan and Steve Mandel (both MBA 1982). The series includes Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Olivia Munn, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as on-the-ground correspondents who visit ordinary Americans on the front lines of hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, and... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
maintaining a base in China and traveling to Berkeley every few months, Baka expects to keep close tabs on the manufacturing quality of the company’s designs, building on his experience sourcing organic cotton apparel. “We have seen many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Antarctic Adventure
Photo OP: The penguins didn’t seem to mind being the center of attention when 21 HBS alumni and friends ventured ashore during a ten-day trip to Antarctica in early December. The School’s Alumni Travel Program heads to Tanzania and Rwanda... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
GLOBAL NETWORKS Whether in Boston or Beijing, HBS Career & Professional Development office hears the same question from alumni: “What’s next for me?” CPD staff have been traveling the world to show alumni the career resources available to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
from his post as a vice president at Internet travel giant Expedia to become a philanthropist-in-training. His “teacher” has been Seattle's chapter of Habitat for Humanity, where he has been busy helping to build interest-free, at-cost... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
travel and work. “The JRC found businesses to partner with, and I reached out to CEOs I knew at companies such as Uniqlo (Fast Retailing), Lawson, Yamato Transport, and a hospital chain,” Takeuchi notes. “No one could believe Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
and travels around the world, although writing was still on his mind, Barron enrolled at HBS intending to build a business of his own. After graduation, he took a job with Prospect Group, Inc., a New York City venture-capital firm,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
strong economic potential. But when it came time to search for an entrepreneurial opportunity in earnest, Thornton realized she didn't have to travel much farther than her own closet to find her niche. "As someone who wears a size 11 1/2... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
that day it became clear that the familiar style of doing things at Harvard Business School was disappearing and that the institution - along with the rest of the country - would have to adapt to a very different set of conditions. (In retirement, Ted Anthony enjoys... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Online Fashionistas
Groupe, now with a division for men’s clothing and entering travel markets as well, has grown from 5 employees to more than 400. Membership is by invitation by other members or by registering at the site (www.gilt.com); that exclusivity... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
massive stack of the hotel’s records. “The amount of paper, it’s incredible,” he says. Benedetti’s revelation of the water delivery is a slight surprise to Megumi Gordon (MBA 2014), cofounder and managing partner of HabanaLive, an offshoot of an educational View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
batteries, the most expensive component of EVs. GM has already begun rolling out the Bolt, a hatchback that can travel 238 miles on a single charge and costs around $30,000—a combination of range and affordability that promises for the... View Details