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- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
she promised with a mischievous twinkle in her eye. She then listed a couple in her sights: “ ‘The customer is always right.’ Or ‘If it is free to offer better service, then always do it.’ ” Frances loves to tease business students,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
framework also worked as a check on the stakeholders, as it required access to funds promised to the First Nations as part of the initial agreement. When those funds didn’t show up or forestry was accused of some infraction, it would... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
staff make it possible to be on two paths simultaneously. When you sign up for neurosurgery training, you know it will be one of the most grueling experiences of your life. It’s sort of like entering a monastic order. Still, nothing has more View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
as the innovation-producing science. Or, to use Jonathan West’s shorthand description,“carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons.” But in the biotech industry, where all these wonders must first take root, Gary Pisano, for one, has seen the View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with a Race to the Top competition that promised more than $4 billion in stimulus money for states that—among other reforms—heeded the call to establish what the President referred to as "laboratories of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
with huge differences in governance, language, culture, and even the reliability of local police. “Ultimately the plan is very important, because it’s a promise of security we’re giving to people. We can’t get into a situation where we... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
away some of the new mass-transit passes and implied that students could expect more of the same if they should be the ones to oversee the SA budget. Diversity, creativity, and transparency were the watchwords of Sunil Nagaroj and Serge Kassardjian. If elected, they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
It was a big step toward integrating me into the HBS community. I will be thankful to him for his kind gesture for as long as I live. —Ricardo Nicanor Jacinto (MBA 1986) McArthur excelled at identifying promising generators of ideas and... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Biohacking Conference featured a keynote by David Asprey, creator of Bulletproof Coffee—a drink that promises increased mental focus, among other benefits—as well as addresses by an international memory champion and the CEO of a company... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
creating marketing efficiencies. Although the digital revolution promised to democratize content production and distribution, the reality is that blockbuster strategies are more applicable and entrenched than ever before. Citing companies... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
the fact that they are often breaking new ground. Pathfinders In China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and around the Pacific Rim, top managers are confronting the realities of globalization, navigating through major shifts in business-government relationships,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
Aviv, killing 36 people. “I’m convinced he wasn’t a terrorist when we talked,” says Hussein. “I think Hamas came to him and promised to take care of his family if he’d do this one thing for them. I believe that is when, out of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
In Baobab Studios’ VR film Invasion!, viewers interact with Chloe, a scared white rabbit that responds to their actions. (courtesy of Baobab Studios) With the promise of mind-boggling , out-of-body experiences, virtual reality is... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
claiming valuable new natural resources. It’s a modern set of economic motives that aren’t much different from those that set whalers sailing south more than a century ago. While Nohria sees promise in the commercialization of space, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public
Commencement has always marked a time of promise and possibility, but this year's festivities seem especially charged with anticipation. Not only is the Class of 2000 the first to set forth into a new century, but it graduates into what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
can then help articulate the deeper reforms that will make it possible for those practices to be more widely adopted. “Our task,” Leschly concludes, “is to study and influence how these urban school systems are managed and led. In the end, that should help those who... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
the widest possible audience. You want to have a kind of universality of theme. AW: What was your pitch to the author Holly Smale when you wanted to adapt this into a TV show? JN: I made three key core promises to Holly, and the first was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
financial turmoil, there is no denying how far the Asia-Pacific region has come - and how promising its future remains. Camille Tang Yeh (MBA '80) is acutely aware of the region's potential. As executive director of the Hong Kongbased HBS... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes