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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes, the USPS saw one glimmer of hope... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
© d20/ZUMA © d20/ZUMA Governments across the globe are getting serious about weaning themselves off of fossil fuels. Denmark has pledged to be powered solely by renewable energy by 2050; Sweden pledged to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
and—eventually—an Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship led by Bill Sahlman and Joe Lassiter. These products will also leverage the HBX online learning platform with the added potential for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Matrix Partners.) “I moved to Boston because my four kids were in New England; they moved away almost immediately,” Hellman jokes. “So I moved back to San Francisco and decided I’d better get a real job.” By all accounts, being chairman... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
cogent comment of the third panelist, HBS professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, that we have been choosing “takers” instead of “givers” as our government leaders, Gergen took issue with Kanter’s aforementioned critique of... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Billy from Affton By William S. Thompson (MBA 1970) Bowker Identifier Services The exploits and adventures of Bill Thompson, a neighborhood guy chosen by his peers to lead,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Clubs News Clubs News Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh President Bill Slivka (MBA 1976) (left) stands with guest speaker Michael McGarry (AMP 169 2005), Chairman and CEO of PPG, at the Association's Annual Meeting. Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Will He or Won’t He?
There’s another guessing game going on in Washington, and it doesn’t involve the direction of the Supreme Court. Give up? It’s all about how Christopher Cox (MBA ’76), chosen by President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) to head the SEC, will... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to retrofit buildings to reduce emissions. Can Khan Academy Scale... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
director of Indigo Agriculture. (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) We have the technology, the capability, and the talent to combat climate change and save the world. The obstacles? Big money in politics, aversion to change, and inadequate... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
April this year for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And that was very much overshadowed by the new global crisis of the pandemic. It affected us in that we did a much smaller launch of our new version of the app. We still put our... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
Fifty years ago, a new course was introduced at HBS to provide students with a better understanding of the problems of starting and managing new businesses. The Management of New Enterprises, developed and taught by Professor Myles L.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fall Speaker Series for Club Members
Six senior HBS faculty members, including Bill Kirby, Clay Christensen, and Bill George, will discuss their latest research with alumni this fall in the new Virtual Learning Series, sponsored View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
we actually use it. A shipper driven by overnight deliveries may never before have understood the importance of date-sensitive systems as they relate to leasing, for example. More important, we all are discovering that in the Y2K context,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a distinguished group. Video... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis and a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came up with a web-based program to track the data we needed to get... View Details