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- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
contributions to Harvard. He was the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University in 2013. Read the complete HBS remembrance Read more (News & Observer report) View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the norm." While to most View Details
Keywords: Government
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
approaching them with empathy. “I think it’s necessary for us as business leaders to not only practice talking about these issues . . . [but also] practice having conversations that aren’t easy,” observes Ratajczak. McCray adds, “That’s... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
Courtesy Josh Basseches Well over a year into the pandemic, many of us are craving opportunities for direct interaction in a lived, physical space. “So many of us have been engaging with colleagues, family, and friends through Zoom and other virtual exchanges since the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
$700 in six weeks guessing the weight of fairgoers large and small — earning 25â for each correct guess. Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, jokingly observes that he was destined for a career in money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without affecting the core... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
board service about a decade ago, he observed that there was a severe lack of representation in boardrooms in Pittsburgh. “So, what are you going to do about it?” he remembers someone asking him. With that catalyst and funding from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
approach, and asks participants, especially executives, to get vulnerable in order to dig into the complexities that can’t be conveyed by a PowerPoint slide. “People tend not to share stories of a personal nature for fear of being attacked in an emotionally destructive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
States,” she observed in a recent Business History Review article. An 1890 photograph of women workers in the looping room at Ipswich Mills in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Now up and running, the “Unheard Voices” Web site offers access to a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus on caring for their families and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
forceful keynote address, Earl G. Graves, president and CEO of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and publisher and CEO of Black Enterprise magazine, observed that a silver anniversary connotes "the blessings of longevity which include the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
YouTube) Order the book TEDx Atlanta talk on The Progress Principle Amabile also spent hours talking with two of her younger sisters about behavior they observed in other family members or in classmates at school: “Why did they act that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
codirector and mainstay of the GHD (and, with Farmer, a PIH cofounder). Building on Kim’s case presentation, Porter next outlined an emerging framework, growing out of the GHD’s work, for health-care delivery in resource-poor settings. He View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
pooled coverage, even of presidential candidates - I think you lose something without having those different perspectives." Another big change she has observed is that women journalists, once rare, are everywhere. And she further notes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
music; in our minds, connecting to the younger generation,” observed Chopra. “In society, brands that stay relevant succeed.” The Hindu American Foundation has weighed in as well. The organization launched an awareness campaign called... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
and analytics than liberal arts when you don’t speak the language,” observes Ma. Her hard work and focus paid off: She was accepted at MIT and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. “I believe in what the School is trying to... View Details