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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many of which became huge successes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident brought that open-ended plan to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
she is quite petite, just over five feet tall, a figure all the more surprising given the force of her presence. It may help explain why, when crowding into the back of a taxi, Oishi insists on occupying the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
company are added to the drives by the neighborhood distributor. Hip-hop duo La Reyna y La Real also use the service for promotion, noting that most of their fellow musicians advertise this way. “If you dig deep into Cuba’s history, it’s full of events that have View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
in India. I have also been stable for nearly five years, a hard-won and cherished milestone. Over the years, the HBS mission statement sustained my ambition to make a difference in the world, to not be defeated by my illness, and to learn... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
regardless of location. "A handful of senior consultants will go out and open a new office," he says. "They hire the best talent available in that country and train them to assume total responsibility from their mentors within five to ten... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important purchase of his life. View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
was known as the “sick man” of Europe, with lumbering state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and a crushing top marginal tax rate of 93 percent. In an ominous sign of the times, the day after Cohen launched what was to become known as Apax Partners, a bitter coal... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
and skills to the workplace, but still honor what’s important to them personally. Unbeknownst to me, Sheila Marcelo ended up in my same fellowship class. We decided to join forces to address this massive and universal pain point for both... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
leadership and discover the leader hidden in you. Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back By Stacey Abrams, Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)and Heather Cabot Penguin It’s never been easier to start a business—and it’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
lowest law court in the land.” Moore was again in Shanghai; in the five months since his arrival in China, he traveled only as far as Peking, 144 feet above sea level. First, the expedition had been waylaid by the outbreak of war when the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
Illustration by Edmon deHaro Even before we’ve seen the full potential of quantum computing in any material sense, the global market is estimated to reach $5.5 billion in the next five years. To begin to understand why, consider how it... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
contract with California utilities for $0.14–$0.16 per kWh. As the technology matures and scales, that should fall below $0.10. And these plants can be realized in three to five years, compared with ten or more for nuclear plants. As the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
five Is. What are your reflections on your progress on each one? Let’s start with Innovation. We launched some significant innovations, including the FIELD program and HBS Online. Other lesser-known innovations worth mentioning include... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Within—Almost 90% of McDonald’s in the US are owned and operated by franchisees. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) runs the rest. Hear from Kristy Cunningham on the all-day breakfast initiative on the Skydeck podcast Five days after the call,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
in reopening the New York Stock Exchange. "I felt very strongly that the worst thing we could do was open prematurely and then be forced to close because we weren't really prepared," he told the New York Times on the Sunday after the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
the framework for the firm's culture. "Similarly," he continues, "I decided to lay Greylock's financial foundation by bringing together a group of limited partners who had some relationship with me and often with each other, rather than... View Details