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- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
play’s director (and Harvard College alumna), Diane Paulus, the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. HBSWANY co-vice president of programming, Kathy Murray (AMP 112, 1993) moderated the talk... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
the flipside of the coin was the danger. I lost three of my bodyguards to a suicide bomber. Later, we were ambushed twice. The second time around was very serious. My armored car took 24 hits. When did you realize that the American... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
Courtesy Josh Basseches Well over a year into the pandemic, many of us are craving opportunities for direct interaction in a lived, physical space. “So many of us have been engaging with colleagues, family, and friends through Zoom and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
off the modern era of Japanese players in the American major leagues—Greyser says team owners have also become acutely aware of how Japanese players can boost their clubs' bottom line. Of course, just acquiring players doesn't necessarily... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon hats some of the wealthiest... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
old—a blip for an entity that dates, some believe, to the third millennium BCE. Yoga was widely introduced in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, as Indian practitioners emigrated to the country, and Americans traveled to the source... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
[Personal Identifiable Information]. So all those principles still apply. And then when we decided to build the advertising business, we also thought about, okay, well what part of it? So there’s brand, there’s sort of mid-funnel where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
that allows them to coexist with colleagues from vastly different backgrounds.” Mary Moses (MBA ’03) is an American who works for VASC, a state-owned Vietnamese telecom and media company. “The people who manage business View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. For voters between the ages of 18 and 29, the picture was even worse, with a 40 percent turnout. Less than 20 percent of Americans have faith in the democratic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
to his connection with Elkins, who was founding director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and African American Studies, and a visiting professor at HBS. Elkins... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
that—whether it’s building wells in an Ethiopian village, improving educational opportunities for girls in Kenya, or stopping the cycle of violence in American cities—WuDunn and Kristof aim to show the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
It was a giddy time that presaged a new frontier, when a tinkering youth would become an international monopolist, and hundreds like him, eager for the quick riches that appeared inevitable, would start new businesses based on a revolutionary technology. Countless... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
In addition to traditional wine distribution in the United States, Cuffe made deals with several US airlines to carry Heritage Link wines. "Our first contract created 200 jobs on the ground," Cuffe says proudly. "And ours was the first South African wine to be served... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
Clock” (with former research associate Eliot Sherman) and the follow-up case, “Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky” (with Jill Avery, DBA ’07), Ofek explores the challenges of designing, positioning, marketing, and selling Clocky, as View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
the London event, while Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi moderated for the Singapore event. The conversation addressed questions like, “Can a system designed to generate profit really make a difference against the massive social and environmental problems that we face?... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank coffee, a once-innocuous beverage... View Details