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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few. They created a unique situation in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is given View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
fans if not necessarily the owners; of the five teams with the highest payrolls in baseball, four made it to the final playoff round of four." As for the public, it seems cranky and less inclined to go the extra mile to support a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains, "it taught me an intuitive feel... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
construction, the HBS community will find most of what it needs in the temporary Baker Library at Kresge Hall. Some materials and collections will require advance requests for access. “We have carefully... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
money to fix the problem, it had to figure out what the problem was. Why were customers going elsewhere? What did they want? Shortly after Cunningham arrived, she asked her team for the top three requests... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
All photos by Webb Chappell From the Charles River, the newly renovated Baker Library looks very much as it has for the past seventy-some years — stately columns, enormous windows, the signature bell tower. But a closer inspection reveals... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. As frequent targets of investment pitches, some of which turn out to be scams, several participants said they had already learned enough to be more astute in evaluating View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
just one example of the formal and informal networks in place to pass along Native heirloom seeds. Each season, Keen can request two varieties from the Cherokee Nation seed bank, and the volunteers at the Tri-Faith garden are always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
undaunted, has since launched Innovate Your State, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting public participation in initiatives to improve government. Its first effort, the Fix California Challenge, crowdsourced ideas for ways to improve state... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
those traders’ companies were then paying $20,000 a month. Parker thought he could provide a better service for $500 a month. He was proposing to sell $100,000 worth of debentures and stock representing 10... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
its relevance to HBS alumni. What is Baker best known for in library circles? Baker is regarded foremost for having the richest collections in business and business history in the country, if not the world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna