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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
staff, and faculty who packed Burden Auditorium on Tuesday, September 23, as Congress hotly debated the then newly proposed $700 billion financial rescue legislation. The second panel convened two days later by Harvard President Drew... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize from the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
of the factors that bound together this extraordinary class, most of whom attended HBS with help from the GI Bill. Author David Callahan has chronicled their achievements in his new book, Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School’s Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
year after year. Sure, business can drive positive change, but it can also stunt it and slow it. One of the first things that supposedly business-friendly President Ronald Reagan did upon taking office in 1981 was to remove the solar... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
out. So which has a rosier time horizon? Automotive or the grid? Each is promising, but difficult to forecast. A123 already has a number of automotive customers, including Magna-Volvo, BMW, and BAE Systems, the leading North American... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Spencer, president and CEO of Sematech, bring together top technical managers from Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox and leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change. The result is an important discussion of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
president Charles F. Milner, Jr. (MBA '65), also gave welcoming remarks. The conference program, titled "Managing Development: The African Renaissance," officially began the next morning at Cape Town's Nico Milan Theatre. HBS professor F.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
mastered English and advanced to the top of his class. His outstanding academic performance earned him a scholarship to Oxford University, where he became president of the Oxford Union, the world’s most famous debating society. Upon... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Island Promise. The state legislature approved it in 2017, making Rhode Island one of some 20 states that have adopted similar programs. Sara Enright (MBA 2004), vice president of student affairs and chief outcomes officer at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
home, prepared to commit suicide, as most Pakistani peasant girls would do in that situation. Her parents, however, wouldn’t allow it. Mukhtar’s humiliation turned to rage, and she reported the rape to the police. It was such an unusual move that soon Pakistan’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
start and grow their own business. The president of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association, he brings an insider’s view based on three decades of successful, serial entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. His book combines practical principles,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
every day. In addition to coffee, Starbucks offers tea, pastries, and gift packages; distributes coffee-flavored ice cream and beverages to supermarkets; and maintains the retail Web site starbucks.com. Smith oversaw the company's IPO in July 1992, was named View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
legislative bills and trying to pass a budget; we are now in an emergency-management situation,” he recalls. Difficult as that time was, it set Simmons up as the perfect candidate for his next role. In April 2021, after Cardona was appointed by View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Front Row: NYU Prof. and CNN Presidential Scholar Tim Naftali, Business Executive Katherine Gehl, Harvard Prof. Michael Porter, Pulitizer Prize Winner HBS Alumna Sheryl WuDunn (Panel Moderator) Back Row: HBS Club NY President Andy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
Point Brewing and Spirits) The rise of American craft beer is worthy of a toast: According to the Brewers Association, the industry grew 16 percent from January to June 2015 alone—marking a 122 percent increase since June 2011. The bigger... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
come together. It’s about being more globally competitive and creating jobs in the United States, which is a dialogue the President wants to have. You traveled recently throughout Asia with President Obama... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
visible in college and at the workplace. Her father was a university professor and her mother worked for a media company. “I’m in media now, too, so that is really special to me,” Joseph says. Her father recently retired as senior vice View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner