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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
On the National Stage
for personal reasons. Heinz’s father, John Heinz (MBA 1963), a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, was killed in a plane crash in 1991. It was Kerry, Heinz says, who helped his grieving mother, Teresa Heinz, regain her interest in life. “My dad’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
leader in question is experiencing a life-and-death dilemma—if he doesn’t get it right, he’d be killed. It’s very, very exaggerated. We’d ask, “How is this speaking to you?” Everyone would start by acknowledging that death was not a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
variables that might plausibly impact the proposal or enactment of legislation. Here’s what they found: Of the roughly 30,000 annual gun deaths in the United States, roughly 56 percent are suicides, 40 percent are homicides, and 4 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Portrait Project
Nick Rosenbaum
to glaciers, a lighthouse at the end of the earth, monasteries perched on mountains. Death follows unseen. His Hawaiian shirt hangs in my closet, never to be washed again. Time and again I hold it to my face, breathing in his smell, until... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jaynie Randall
working, dancing, loving... just how I hope to live mine. His death has brought the realization that thinking of life in terms of one wild and precious life, no matter how 'wild' or filled with how many 'precious' experiences, is... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
mercy. There’s a common humanity, yet it’s not about us directly. Often the leader in question is experiencing a life-and-death dilemma—if he doesn’t get it right, he’d be killed. It’s very, very exaggerated. We’d ask, “How is this speaking to you?” Everyone would... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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South Sea Bubble - Bancroft Collection | Baker Library
Somerton Foxwell, lecturer and teacher of political economy at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and University College, London, shortly after his death in 1936. The South Sea Bubble collection is cataloged in the Harvard Library catalog... View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Nkansah
that I may yet owe death a life. I was never a pan-African before that day—my mind teemed with tired tales from my father of Nkrumah's utopian vision. But capitalism could well succeed where decades of post-independence politics failed—in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cyril Abel Vergis
death has proven that it is also possible to find happiness in carrying a fallen torch. Like my mother, I too will help people get to the "finish line" with the grace and dignity they deserve. I will make a difference in elder... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
line managers and CEOs will find compelling. The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives, a completely new edition of the best-selling book by journalist Frances Cairncross of the Economist, explains how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
globalization of medical services? Q&A with Professor Tarun Khanna. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. When Your Product Becomes a Commodity Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. Professor John Quelch... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
Beschloss Photo Courtesy of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Following the death of former President Ronald Reagan in June, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) was frequently quoted in the media on his assessment of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarina Hickey
I will never forget the stench. Or her haunting blue eyes, wavering between consciousness and a death she might have welcomed. She couldn't have been older than 12, this half-naked, starved girl I now cradled in my arms, hurrying around... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Joanna Barsh
see past my mother's recent death and into my future. We began a creative expression exercise; in a fit of emotion, I ripped up a sheath of colored papers and pasted the torn pieces on black background to create an explosion of power.... View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
The United States Treasury recently amended its rules to encourage workers with retirement plans to purchase life annuities within these plans. Life annuities generally make fixed monthly payments from the date of retirement until the View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Woman in the House
Boston native Kathy Davis (MBA 1982) never intended to go into politics, or to get her name in the Hoosier history books. But on October 20, 2003, she did both when she was confirmed as the first woman lieutenant governor of Indiana — a vacancy created by the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the advancement of women. When JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982)... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
their numbers have been in precipitous and alarming decline in recent years. One environmentalist told Crespin he initially feared the meeting was “like going to the Death Star”; but, by finding common ground, they are working together as... View Details
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006) More than 70 years ago, the record of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland, was nearly lost to history. But archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been excavating the site, uncovering mass... View Details
Eli Lilly II
Succeeding his father, Lilly spent his entire career, 70 years, with Eli Lilly and Company. He started as superintendent of manufacturing in 1907 and was the company’s honorary chairman until his death in 1977. He presided over Lilly’s... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare