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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
friends, and the first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. Still, given American wages, survival meant minimizing hand work. Since imported glass was typically blown, the domestic industry focused on pressed glass despite the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
citizen, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, attended Wharton during his service, and then studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Although he had planned on a career in teaching, a job offer from Ford diverted him for the next decade. Dearden is View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
challenges posed by developing, manufacturing, and deploying electromechanical systems that can survive the punishment meted out by the sea—a corrosive medium a thousand times denser than air that wreaks havoc on generators, sensors, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Next Cyber Threat? by Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988) Amacom Rothrock lays bare tactics used by hackers, vulnerabilities lurking in networks, and strategies not just for surviving attacks but also for thriving even while under assault. This book... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a mix of orders from Japanese and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
forming on their eyebrows. It was an ordeal that Green’s survival training in a bucolic Virginia national park two years earlier had left him ill-prepared to face. Still, he attempted to keep discipline and decorum among the team. “Stand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of these so-called shadow banks they were quick to pull their funding, which threatened their survival and destabilized the financial system. “The problem was compounded by the fact that competition from shadow banks threatened the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
also not an ideal situation for athletes, who feed off of a crowd’s energy. But for the sports leagues and the related startups that can survive this transition period—and not all of them will—it could provide an opportunity to assess and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
explained. "Our recent success in high-tech manufacturing on a worldwide basis is a natural outgrowth of that entrepreneurial spirit. If you can survive on the local level in Taiwan, you have a very good chance of making it in the global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
survive HBS. Spangler was a place for my surrogate family during my first year.” Anne Himpens Newton (MBA ’09): “I met my husband Michael Newton in Spangler early on the first morning of admit weekend. It was pouring outside, and a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
writing a screenplay, something I never would have had time for if I was traveling like I did before the pandemic. You have to be able to reinvent yourself. Darwin said it’s not the strongest who survive but those who are most able to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
business. Fifty years from now, how do you hope future deans look back on your tenure? Darwin famously said that it is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. I hope people who look... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
about the surprise and delight of being served. One thing I’m looking forward to is returning to New York City, where I spent a lot of time after college. There are a number of hole-in-the-wall places that I’m excited to get back to, partly because it means they’ve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
friend Nando Parrado, one of the Uruguayan rugby players who survived a plane crash in the Andes. We had a great conversation about how people react when facing challenging or difficult situations.” —Bernardo Quinn (MBA 1998), Defying... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
whose friendship was forged on their second day of class at HBS, in 1980, are the sons and grandsons of entrepreneurs. Tuchman’s father ran a chain of dry cleaners in the Midwest and survived the polyester boom of the 1970s by branching... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
uncertainty — not just the uncertainty surrounding the survival of their own firm, but that of the industry itself. The implications of this are that pioneer-entrepreneurs have to adopt specific strategies to overcome the uncertainty with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and Suharto came and went. Vietnam vets were joined by their Gulf War counterparts in the struggle to put their lives back together after the trauma of armed combat. Noriega was captured. Castro wasn't. The effects of South Africa's apartheid continue to reverberate.... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
We're on their radar now, so in order to survive with the bigger brands, we need to grow." In the interest of survival, Newman is a recent - albeit reluctant - convert to the concept of "noisy philanthropy." Research has indicated that... View Details