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- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
by the HBSAAA and hosted by alumni clubs in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, and New York. These events are aimed at engaging the entire HBS African American community—past, present, and future—in the AASU50... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
out of the air-conditioned tractor cab to do,” he says. Hand-worked chores account for a huge portion of labor on farms, says Andersen. Take, for example, table grapes, which are picked exclusively by hand: California farmers gross... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
comprehensive and reasonable a negotiated settlement may appear, acceptance is subject to approval by complex, often mercurial individuals. Over the years, Ross has worked with a succession of Middle East leaders, but given that Yasser... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
ecosystem which today includes the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab and Launch Lab X GEO—were planted during his tenure. In a University widely known for “every tub on its own bottom,” Light worked to foster closer collaboration across Harvard, including View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
equally interested and perhaps equally inexperienced in high technology, are carrying such enthusiasm even further. Rather than wait for Silicon Valley to come to the School, two student organizations - the CMC (Communications, Media &... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
corrupt and criminal money from around the world. That's correct. Approximately half of that sum is generated by violent criminal activity, such as organized trafficking in drugs, weapons, or people. The other half is illegal flight... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
keep pushing ourselves forward,” says Frey, who completed the final leg of his journey in April 2016 by sailing 6,000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Drawn to the ocean as a young boy... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
plants. If fuel for backup diesel generators were to run out, such as might happen if a prolonged power outage rendered fuel resupply impossible, the water in the spent fuel pools would boil off and cause the fuel rods to catch fire. Plumes of smoke would View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
Lazarus puts it, that have characterized his career. He enrolled at HBS directly out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, with plans of going into retailing. "Business school convinced me that retailing was not what I wanted to do," Lazarus says.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
years,” Dean Emeritus McArthur remembered. “During my years as Dean, he was one of just a handful of our colleagues who carried the greatest weight in leading and changing this community and our activities. He was the source of endless... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
Culture carries its guidance to the farthest corners of the organization to places you may never go and people you may never meet. There’s a story about the salvation of FedEx that Michael Basch, one of the company’s founding officers,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
and mix freely. It hummed with activity. On a tour that first day, she was struck by just how animated the animation studio was—with frank discussions and heated arguments in every corner. And yet, as she spent more time there, she began... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
pages of the HBS site, including class notes), plugged in “Olympics,” and got 1,444 hits, most of them about alums or their family members involved in carrying the Olympic Torch; organizing, supplying, cooking for, securing, coaching,... View Details