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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Turkey is both European and Anatolian, and since the days of the Ottoman Empire, most Turks have not claimed any kinship to the Arab world. As an American who has lived in Turkey for twenty years, I have been reminded several times by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their web links. Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals without Mandates Associate Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
continued excellence in the 21st century. In the early 1960s, at the request of President John F. Kennedy, HBS formed a team headed by a youthful (now professor emeritus) George Lodge to study the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
Emeritus, passed away in October at the age of 78. His work focused on exploring the strategic uses of technology by corporations and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy, as well as the social... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Joyful Noise
Melodic sounds from a chamber organ, a gift to the School from Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) and George F. Baker III (MBA '64), filled the Class of 1959 Chapel during a mid-day concert and dedication ceremony on November 20. The "portatif"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
scholars from HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and the Department of Economics, the BFFS Project is led by Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at HBS. “There has... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
The oldest flour company in the United States — and perhaps the only one whose sales are rising amid a decline in home baking — is King Arthur Flour, a firm that's been in operation since George Washington was President, as Smithsonian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
mistakes. Managing Health Care Business Strategy by George B. Moseley III (MBA ’65) (Jones & Bartlett) This textbook examines strategic planning and management in the special environment of health-care... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
says Scott Snook (MBA 1987, PhDOB 1996), the MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, one of the professors who teach the course. Part of the MBA Elective Curriculum (EC) since 2005, ALD was introduced by Professor of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
traditional balance sheet does not account for a company’s cost to society. For instance, airlines don’t figure in the environmental costs of travel, which can amount to billions annually. HBS’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Project, led by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
Florida. During a board meeting break, George Weathersby, YPO’s recently appointed CEO, ponders this puzzle: Of the 59 YPO networks (including groups devoted to golf, family business, real estate, wine, and environmental action), half are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London,14 George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1.2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London.13 Others... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
her husband in 1839. In addition, he learned that in the early 1900s, the plantation had been owned by Mary Clark Thompson, who is said to have been romantically linked with George F. Baker after both were... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
Lab. Members of the African American Alumni Association gather for a reception in Gallatin. Alan J. Strassman (MBA 1962), 35th Reunion chairman, welcomes classmates and their guests. Valerie and John E. McConnaughy (MBA 1952) chat with 45th Reunion chairman View Details