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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses.” As James Tobin, one of Schumpeter’s best Harvard students and himself a Nobel laureate, later wrote, “I have always thought that Schumpeter’s ambition was to develop a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Spangler Center in Top Form
A cloudless blue sky and a chilly wind provided a brisk backdrop for a December celebration of progress made in the construction of the new Spangler Center. The "topping out" ceremony, a Viking tradition that pays tribute to the trees... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
organization, the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, have revolutionized cancer research. Under her leadership, the two groups have made incredible progress — including helping to bring patients four new treatments — and continue to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
study takes a different tack: Something as simple and nonmaterial as negotiation skills can have a life-changing impact on a girl’s future. The study is detailed in “Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment.” It... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
potential, but for all willing to take the risk to start something new and compete. “It is remarkable to me what kind of progress they can make,” he said. Eventually a booming voice instructed the audience it was time to participate in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
is a work in progress but fortunately most of the teachers we work with speak passable English — they are, after all, English teachers. The schools we work with are run by the city and are reasonably modern, though they lack much of what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA 1994), is making progress on recommendations to leverage existing resources and develop new ones to assist alumni with lifetime career development needs. Last fall, the board created an Executive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
won’t do the kind of work that is necessary to make progress on our most intractable challenges. Society pays a high price for randomization of research support — a fact that, sadly, is not recognized by the public, the media, or... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
improving the sustainability of our planet, Ferenbach believes that the best way to make progress in this arena is to work with—not against—business and government. “The vast majority of the economy is private. It is markets that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
the importance of applying that same potential toward being strategic. It was a progressive understanding that I came to because different people reached out to me along the way, and I was receptive to what they said. Though I am still a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
presentation and discussion of papers written to mark the event were conducted as a tribute to McArthur's academic leadership. During these sessions, HBS faculty participants assessed the progress of their own research and course... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
sessions, check the progress of campus renovations, hear the latest on the School's initiatives from Dean Kim B. Clark, and, of course, catch up and network with each other. Reunion giving was also noteworthy. By the time they'd gathered... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Honoring the Code
responsibility. All the way up to when I was chairman, I felt responsible for over two million men and women in uniform, active guard and reserve. So leading them, being responsible for them, understanding their challenges, putting them in a position to View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
investors to create a supportive environment in which African entrepreneurs can thrive. Why Muslims Lagged Behind and Others Progressed New translation by Nadeem M. Qureshi (MBA 1982) Austin Macauley In the fall of 1928, the imam of Java,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
risk? Just because you would gladly pay a higher capital gains rate doesn’t mean others would. Brian W. Keane (MBA 1986) Potomac, MD Both Sides Now LaMagna has fallen into the trap set by those who believe “fairness” runs only in one direction. Even if I believed in a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
And then would be responsible for executing, meeting and reporting out. There would be transparency in the company about what they were doing and how they were progressing along. The way I'm thinking about it, it's a completely different... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
progression through the ranks. In 2005, he was named chief of Naval Operations, and two years later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked him to serve as the country’s highest-ranking military commander. Having spent most of his career in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young