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- 01 Oct 1999
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You goal, girl
With interest in women's sports and professional leagues soaring, Amy Love (MBA '93) decided it was high time for a publication that would cover the new scene in a serious manner. Instead of simply transposing traditional women's magazine View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
"workaholic," Bertarelli is determined to stay on top of new management trends. His company was the subject of a 1995 HBS case study, and one of the reasons Bertarelli took time out of his hectic schedule to attend his reunion was to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
what firms make of it.” How global retailers enter local foreign markets — and then what they make of them — was the subject of “Globalization of Retailing,” with HBS professor Rajiv Lal leading a discussion of a paper he authored with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Staying Afloat
midsize container ships, for which there was steady demand. The Szczecin shipyard saga became the subject of a 1995 Harvard Business Review article touting it as a model of post-communism management. But yard officials aren't resting on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Polaroid in the 1930s and ’40s, when the iconic company was a risky startup led by an untested entrepreneur. A “Hack Your Sleep” event offered insights into the science of slumber—a subject unfamiliar to many MBA students. Cosponsored by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
Viruses are out there, waiting to strike, and vaccinations are our best defense. But that defense is a man-made system, and therefore subject to breakdowns. In a talk titled “The Significance of Vaccines in Global Health,” Merck CEO... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in... View Details
- 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
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
In 2000, Fisher founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to Perkin Elmer in 2007 for $300 million. Water and Beer Her... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or recovers species. A subsidiary View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
diamond. You can still be very respectful, and assume everybody has a spark, but we have to subject our ideas to the toughest scrutiny because our work is important." READ MORE View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
cousins was good so I kept going. By 2009, I quit my day job to work on the videos—and the software—full time. To date, I’ve personally made around 3,000 videos—I love doing them—on dozens of subject areas, ranging from physics to finance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
feedback from my cousins was good so I kept going. By 2009, I quit my day job to work on the videos—and the software—full time. To date, I’ve personally made around 3,000 videos—I love doing them—on dozens of subject areas, ranging from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
lifelong bouts of depression. In 1942, Lasker unexpectedly sold the firm to three senior partners and withdrew from advertising. At the book’s close, Cruikshank and Schultz liken their subject to the Wizard of Oz, who operated largely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual lines when asked to take an online survey, showed that View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
she was 18 she’s mostly been surrounded by people in the military. “The case method challenges me to speak up; it forces me to be a contributing member of the class,” she says. “I’ve been extremely impressed by my fellow classmates, and I really appreciate their... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services