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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
send e-mail to the author: Garry Emmons photos by AP/Wide World September 11, 2001, was a day that New Yorkers will never forget, particularly those who live and work in Lower Manhattan, the city’s business and financial center. With the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts by South Africa’s First National... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
later known as the “dean of black businessmen.” Fitzhugh encouraged Lambert to apply to HBS, where she was the first African American woman to attend the School during the early years of women’s acceptance into the two-year MBA Program. At the time, all women in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
itch. This year, for the first time, the program expands to four individuals whose lives and experiences show what different roads the entrepreneurial journey can take. “Students are hungry for the kind of perspective they can get from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
pressing need in today’s world to shore up waning public trust in government institutions through transparency and good financial stewardship. Christopher Smart worked alongside Cognetti in Treasury, serving as deputy assistant secretary... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
the failure experience. In Greece, you're not supposed to fail. So in my life, I look politically like the cosine curve, up and down, up and down, up and down. So I had to learn and I had to live politically through thick and thin, you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
moderation, and rejection of terrorism can lead to improvements in the lives of its citizens, give them hope for the future, and thus ensure greater stability for the government. A lot of countries are watching to see if Morocco is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis and a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
motivation of others. Our research suggests that most managers are not in tune with the inner work lives of their employees; nor do they appreciate how pervasive the effects of inner work life can be on performance.” Fostering a positive... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
management, to access to capital," comments HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart, who coteaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Management. "Women become entrepreneurs for many of the same reasons men do. Some are pushed into it... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
returned. Throughout the rest of 2007, she endured months of especially difficult rounds of chemotherapy and painful side effects. Yet Jen refused to let her physical condition interfere with the effort to assist others. As she wrote in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
It was a great way to end my tenure as board chair,” she observes. In all, Brooks has lived in, worked in, or visited 85 countries; and she is not done yet. “My goal is to hit 100; I would really like to go to Antarctica,” she says. In... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
global event. That was the goal. Tell me about the program. For the Vendée Globe, we published a Teacher’s Guide for a 15-week program. Fifty U.S. newspapers published my accompanying weekly series, written live from the boat, with essays... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities and families together, to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
of the business community, HBS assistant professor Abrami said in an interview. The Chinese built their economy on a system of dual-class citizenship, one that designated any individual living away from his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
former partner and current HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart (MBA '81, DBA '95) - Stemberg created a company whose sales of $3.1 billion in 1995 are expected to surpass $10 billion when a merger with Office Depot becomes official... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
forth as a solution. But HBS assistant professor Daniel Snow, who studies the application of new technology, offers a caveat. Snow, who has worked with both Honda and Ford, points out that technological advances are a plus only if... View Details