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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
recently moved into its eight-story home on West 110th Street, the room already had an air of timelessness. The wood-paneled walls were lined with portraits of great American adventurers and the trophies they had brought back from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
$27 trillion — just over 9 percent of total global financial assets. Already in 2007, Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds had moved to invest in Western financial companies, including Barclays, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Merrill... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
McKenna’s face, or at least the half of it that’s visible above her mask, lights up at the sight of it. It’s been a long journey to this point. She and her family, including husband Joe and two young sons, have just moved up from Atlanta,... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Europe that had exposure to Costco before. Morrell: Amira had something of a Silicon Valley mindset in the first days of BulkWhiz. She was ready to move fast, break things, prove the demand for her product, and then scale. That kind of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
competitive battleground. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
That’s when David Dewan (MBA 1969) launched Contact Incorporated, in fierce competition with another Harvard startup, Operation Match. Both companies sold questionnaires to students—$3 for Operation Match; $4 for Contact Incorporated—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
company to Cargill, and I moved to the farm full time.” Today Three Chimneys employs 140 and encompasses 1,800 acres spread over six parcels of land: four are dedicated to mares and foals, one to yearlings, and the last to the farm’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying to make factory improvements,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your goals? ROBIN SMITH Robin Smith (HRPBA 1962, MBA 1963), chairman, Publishers Clearing House. Tequesta, Florida Given the times, my goals were modest; interesting work and a chance for advancement were foremost in my mind. Right after graduation, I married, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
friend. Masha had just graduated from HBS and was working at a medical-device company in Massachusetts. Okoloko's call came at the right time. Professionally, Masha was eager to join a start-up; personally, he'd resolved to move closer to... View Details