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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
making big real estate bets that could shape the city’s future. He’s all in on Detroit. You could say Cummings married into Detroit: His father-in-law was Max Fisher, a pillar of the business and philanthropic communities known as “Mr.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hire ex-convicts. And so after their apprenticeships almost all of them are placed in jobs. And after a year and a half or two, these women come out and they are productive citizens rather than people who have been in jail for two for two or View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Learning Curve
established a board about five years after its founding, she served as chair. While Melcher couldn’t see the future of the Joy School clearly, she knew she wanted to build something that would outlast its founders: “It didn’t matter how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Teaching is in his DNA
for the next five years. He told McArthur that he wanted to study the intersection of science and technology management with the problems of productivity and competitiveness that were then plaguing the U.S. economy. Accordingly, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Bruce V. Rauner recently celebrated his 15th HBS Reunion in a big way, establishing a professorship in business administration at HBS that bears his name. At 40, he is one of the youngest alumni in the School's history to create an... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
and out of here right from the statehouse. We were then ushered up the steps into a large hall and seated across a long table facing 10 high ranking officials with Minister number five in the middle. They were all in full dress. And there... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
companies and has a financial stake in Moderna.) There was a dollars-and-cents logic to this, since the big rewards that can be had in the pharmaceutical industry come with big financial risks. “There’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
vacuum, sweep, or dust. Five women and one man array their mats around a rose quartz sphere. “Dedicate your practice to a prayer in your life,” he tells them. “Ideally, one of personal transformation.” It’s a traditional approach that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013) traveled to Ho Chi Minh City with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
option of directing their support to any one of five key priorities: student financial aid, educational innovation, pathbreaking research, global understanding, and HBS-Harvard collaborations. How do smaller gifts make a difference?... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"Strategy counts for only about 10 percent," he said. "We focus on execution." Not surprisingly, therefore, EMC demands topflight performance: some five hundred of its managers are paid according to their attainment of quarterly goals.... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
that staggering number will meet less than 10 percent of the true need in Massachusetts. Feingold has big plans for Hope and Comfort. Over the next five years, he hopes to expand the size and extend the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
and of another serious setback for further privatization of pensions in America.” When All Else Fails by David A. Moss (Harvard University Press) Although Associate Professor David Moss completed his draft of When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
A Conversation with Nancy Koehn Koehn Photo Courtesy Nancy Koehn Editor’s Note: The Story of American Business itself has a back story. Explains Jacqueline Murphy of Harvard Business Press: “About five years ago, after we held discussions... View Details