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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Events Around the World
Campaign’s Dallas Regional Event, held at the George W. Bush Institute in March 2015. 9 SÃO PAULO: André Jakurski (MBA 1973) spoke at the Campaign’s São Paulo Regional Event in August 2015. 10 SAN FRANCISCO: The fall 2015 San Francisco Young Alumni Networking Event was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
headlines this year for releasing its research on a subscription-only basis, a stance that has caused some consternation in the scientific community. Thanks to large investments in automated gene-sequencing machines - and, it might be added, its use of free data... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
information and financial and other intermediaries. How will the Asia-Pacific region benefit from the presence of the HBS research office? The intellectual capital created by the exchange of ideas and the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
business community who recognizes its growing potential in the US economy. Avance’s focus on lower middle-market business services and consumer sectors that often correlate to the types of companies founded by Latinx entrepreneurs meant... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
phones. It’s all part of our commitment to giving you the content you want, where and when you want it. Let us know how we’re doing at bulletin@hbs.edu. June 2014 Bulletin Our June cover story on Brazilian CEO Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) helped increase Bulletin web... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
ELLIS: Joe Wilson was a servant leader who cared about people. PHOTO BY JEFF HACKETT Everyone always called him Joe. But as the leader of a corporate giant, Joe Wilson wasn’t exactly a regular Joe. As detailed in Joe Wilson and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
and ten minutes later Marty, with life vest on, is aboard a panga (dinghy) approaching Darwin Bay for a “wet landing.” Last summer, HBS Alumni Travel took a group of nineteen, ages 14–87, on a trip that can only be described as fantastic.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Nearly 600 years after the closure of the storied Silk Road trade route between East and West, 44 second-year MBA students traveled to Asia to gain a firsthand... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
items and are affected by them. For their 1996 study, "The Paradoxes of Technology," HBS assistant professor Susan M. Fournier and David Glen Mick, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online mall and related services used... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
marketing costs down by targeting the teens and twenties age group and by focusing — unlike some competitors — mainly on selling mobile phones. Although Phones 4u offers a range of mobile communication and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) We all know someone who has committed suicide. Oftentimes they are the most... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
illustration by Vahram Muradyan illustration by Vahram Muradyan A few years ago I went through a sort of wilderness experience, where nothing was lining up. I had to sell my car and move in with a roommate... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details