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- 01 Sep 2004
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Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
and, of course, the doors opened by an MBA from a prestigious northeastern business school, it has been a great ride. When I compare myself to my mother, we both fulfilled very different demographic norms. She had four children in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
longer-term kids have returned to say “thank you.” We still consider one boy — now a man — part of the family. In 2001, DD and I started thinking about the Peace Corps. Our children were grown, and we were free to do what we both had... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the power... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with very different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
industry. Ironically, in the late 1960s the Swiss introduced the first bat-tery-powered quartz watch. But within seven years, the Japanese brought the price of quartz watches down by 100-fold because of their expertise in electronics. A... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
of Australia, Singapore, and Thailand to participate in the virtual event. Close to 400 alumni, guests, and regional affiliates joined the conversation, and were welcomed by club President Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003). The club’s Director of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
without water and sanitation by 2015. The essential element is leadership from the public sector.” Doug Brown agrees. “Water issues are addressable, but they require a commitment of resources and capital. That people drink water... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
legal challenges by the media companies, have repeatedly ruled that the FCC’s constraints were, in effect, “arbitrary” and “capricious.” So the FCC was forced to either ease the rules or offer a stronger justification for them. On June 2,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
all we heard were the sounds of insects and the flutes played by the night watchmen who cared for cows and buffalo. We were afraid of the dark, because we heard stories about witches and goblins eating people caught outside after sundown.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Leimsider has helped Safe Passage clarify its strategic goals. “We have a very specific understanding of what our job is. Our mission here is not simply to do as much good as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
last summer that the time had come to “start looking outward before I get too old to do anything” and find his own way to give back to the world. Murch's leave from Expedia ended in January, but he's decided not to return for now.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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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 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
an antitrust case against seventeen investment banking firms in New York City, an effort that led him to do an exhaustive study of the securities industry. In 1984, Fox received the Harvard Business School's Distinguished Service Award,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
help expand DonorsChoose from coast to coast. The Partners invited Goldman to give them a briefing about DonorsChoose during the October reunion weekend. 6ae18215bee1551da4734aee5ad28b10 Founded three years ago by a Bronx high-school... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
moving off the shelf fast enough to yield $1 million, you probably have a consumer-marketing problem more than a financing problem. Do you know how well your product is moving off the shelf? It is easy to think you are succeeding based on... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
Do successful firms in different countries share cultural traits? HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's long-standing interest in this and related research has led him, with Professor John U. Farley of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School, to examine... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs