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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was a very different business from the academic programs, and it had to be managed accordingly. It needed a different organization, different kinds of people, and different View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
When Bulletin editor Deb Blagg asked if I would do a short piece for this special 75th anniversary issue, I said yes immediately. Sounds fun and easy, I thought. I was right about the former and dead wrong... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
broadly defined job description (“do whatever will benefit the college and the country”), we have also been free to take on additional roles, from government consulting work View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
conventional financial analyses, she studies bankruptcy judges and government agency personnel the way some investors analyze corporate managers, in order to predict possible outcomes. "By quantifying the... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
programs linking MBA students with medicine, government and public policy, and law. “Jay was, in so many ways, ahead of his time,” says HBS Dean Srikant Datar. “He saw clearly... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
connection to practice—were established during his tenure. He shaped the School in profound and long-lasting ways.” The son of a traveling dentist, Donham (AB 1898, LLB 1901) majored in government at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
business and government do—the three sectors each play a distinctive role. But too often we take for granted the ways in which nonprofits have made this country stronger. There is so much emphasis in our... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni in Japan Launch Virtual Series on Business and Sustainability The HBS Club of Japan (HBSCJ) launched a new and comprehensive virtual speaker series in September to help the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Governance in the First British Empire, is set in the eighteenth century. She and McCraw were determined to challenge their students. "We wanted to give them materials that were chock-full of relevant... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Photo courtesy of Martin Frey Martin Frey (AMP 165, 2003) didn’t plan to become the first person in the world to climb the Seven Summits and sail the Seven Seas, an achievement that earned him placement in the Guinness World Records. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Income Housing Coalition. Across the nation, government cutbacks on construction, maintenance, and subsidies for low-income housing, combined with the booming economy's overheated real-estate market, have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
An expert on competition in telecommunications and new technologies, Patrick S. Moreton (MBA ’91) takes the long view. Despite congressional efforts to tighten controls over media ownership and the current... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Organization and the restructuring of Asian companies. That evening, guests were given a chance to talk with each other as well as with invited business and political leaders... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner