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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
20,000 adults and children in the United States and Europe who are living with profound hearing impairment caused by a specific type of gene mutation. “There are more than 150 genes linked to hearing loss,” explains cofounder Manny Simons... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
winter break, with more to comein the spring. Sarah Wimmer (HBS ’05) serves as copresident of the HBS Trek Club. In 2003 she participated in the New York City trek; in December she traveled to India on a sixteen-day trek organized by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
presidential portrayal. Next Generation Management Development: The Complete Guide and Resource by Robert D. Cecil (MBA ’68) and William J. Rothwell (John Wiley & Sons) This book contains a comprehensive... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
new electives - Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes: Real Estate, Sports, Public-Private Partnerships, and Litigation, taught by newly promoted Professor of Management Michael A. Wheeler, and Dealmaking: Financial and International... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations" will be presided over by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
through for him at a scary moment.” — Andy O’Brien, HBS Chief of Operations. (O’Brien, assisted by others, administered life-saving CPR to Howard Stevenson during a heart attack in front of Baker Library, January 2006.) “I asked Howard to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
givers was “generational, not ideological.” Reason and civility to the rescue! I was embarrassed for HBS, as I felt we had been badly trumped by KSG. But then I arrived at the article on social entrepreneurs and HBS’s Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company actually admitting that to themselves and to the public—then real change is afoot. “When we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
to prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector. Approaching then-Dean John McArthur, he offered to fund an initiative focused on research, teaching, and programs related to nonprofit management. “John Whitehead’s vision for what would become the Social Enterprise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES These topics are front-of-mind for today’s business leaders. According to a January 2021 CEO survey by Fortune and Deloitte, 94 percent of CEOs said that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
(MBA '79) is a genuine guitar hero. Because of his managerial chops, a legendary American guitar company, once almost silenced by insolvency, has lived to play on. Founded in 1894, the Gibson Guitar Corp. had lately been singing nothing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an undergraduate at Georgetown,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
style-driven business, but go with it. —Ted Hibben (MBA 1986) Start the delivery operation but structure it for spin-off, because there’s clearly an opportunity for e-commerce logistics in Mexico. As part of the startup, look for other e-commerce companies that could... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
taking participants through case studies of Southwest Airlines, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and Neutrogena Soap, Professor Michael E. Porter discussed his latest research on strategy. Rather than choosing to "run the same race faster" by... View Details