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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
Barron recalls one professor chiding him for "studying the hiking trails of Scotland more than anything else." Despite his numerous academic and extracurricular interests, including writing, business came first for Barron, thanks to his... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
skills and perspectives he had acquired during his extended hiatus. Located just a mile from Boston and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, Thompson Island has been committed to disadvantaged youth since 1833, when a group of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Software published its first title, Guide to Birds of North America. The week of that first CD-ROM’s release (the company now markets seventy titles), Thayer and his wife, Roz, were spotting penguins in... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the Ghanaian president’s View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
companies that have been deeply involved in these issues. In addition, the forum featured an interactive videoconference with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, participating from the White House. HBS professor and BLSS chair Rosabeth... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been extraordinary developments. The View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Capitalist Revolutions (DCR), was born. Taught initially in January 1996 by McCraw and Assistant Professor Nancy F. Koehn, another business historian, DCR drew an enthusiastic response from the first students to take it. Essentially an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
were June 1959 graduates of the one-year Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA). They were (left to right) Roberta Moniz (later Lasley), Diana Greer, and Sara Beth Wilkinson. These three were the first women to be... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
the first launch of HBX, and is targeted at a group that HBS has historically not served: undergraduate students, non-business graduate students, and professionals in the pre-MBA stage of their working careers who would benefit from a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
shaped by sensing the human experience first and then moving into policy.” Wolfensohn’s current projects, as well as a family foundation run by his daughter Sara, reflect his continuing belief that the growing gap between poor and wealthy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
Declaring himself “appalled” and “dismayed“ by recent acts of greed and wrongdoing in corporate America, Dean Kim B. Clark told a National Press Club audience in Washington last February that “we need solutions that are driven by a... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
News Enterprises, the first U.S.-based Web site to feature only international news. Valuable as those outlets are, however, they serve only a niche audience. With a declining presence in newspapers, foreign news is increasingly absent... View Details