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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Digital Initiative, was how to develop the skills and insight to become a leader in the digital age. Today’s MBA Program has multiple electives designed to help students conceive, lead, and execute digital innovation initiatives and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
simplicity? We can’t rely on the federal government, which was designed as an exception,” says Deffarges, pointing out the state-by-state initiatives that are enacting Medicare-for-All. “States will show us the way home.” Belinsky says... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
comprehensive career management tool kit for career planning and job transitioning. In an effort to help promote personal and professional development, the School has developed several lifelong learning programs designed specifically for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
that doesn’t work sometimes,” says Hoye. “This is why we do what we do. So far, it’s working.” From Baker Library: Want to excel at customer engagement like Faction Collective? Read McKinsey’s advice on truly listening to customers and on using View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
One was the walking pilgrimage in Japan, and another was a spiritual retreat in India. Can you give us a sense of what came out of those two experiences in a tangible sense? What was different from when you left to when you came back? DJ DiDonna: Well, first of all, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
teaching them to memorize information,” says Moynihan. “We’re not saying ABCs and 1-2-3s aren’t important, but we think that playful learning and other important nonacademic developmental skills are not being valued appropriately.” This... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller — gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and antibig business sentiment. I think such moments are part of something very important in the U.S. system. There is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
inexperienced GM Peter Chiarelli, who played hockey at Harvard, who in turn hired good people around him. I think a big step was bringing in former Bruins star Cam Neely as president. His reputation alone from wearing a Bruins jersey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
degree in psychology, which informed his interest in the motivations around good deeds. Given their respective backgrounds in economics and social psychology, Exley and Zlatev each draw on different literature in their work, and their study View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
France as an example of a country with an investment mindset that is too short term. How would a government design a more patient approach? What you often see is government giving out a large initial outlay of money without first saying,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Daschle, was an advocate of universal coverage. While few would deny that some kind of fundamental health-care reform is needed, many others contend that it will have to wait, given the nation’s current financial crisis.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
excerpt from the March 2016 Bulletin, Orbital CEO David Thompson (MBA 1981) reflected on the company’s beginnings, dreamed up in the wake of a funding decline for NASA—Thompson’s employer at the time—in the 1970s: Thompson began thinking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
diagnostics, consumer, and devices, collectively raising more than $150 million in funding. To further catalyze these new science-based businesses, the program provides fellows professional development in areas such as startup strategy, View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
academic ventures. Debuting this spring, the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP) was designed and will be taught by faculty from HBS, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard’s Faculty of... View Details