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M. Kenneth Oshman
As one of the principal founders of Rolm, Oshman is credited with the design and development of a sophisticated private branch exchange or PBx switch that has become a central component of telecommunication systems. Over the course of fifteen years, Oshman built Rolm... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Walter S. Gifford
During Gifford’s presidency, AT&T experienced tremendous growth. Gifford increased operating revenue from $657 million to $2.25 billion. During Gifford’s tenure, the wire mileage of AT&T rose from 39.5 million to 113 million, and the number of Bell telephones... View Details
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Hernand Behn
In 1920, the Behn brothers, Hernand and Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company’s assets... View Details
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Harold S. Geneen
Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 19 Nov 2018
- News
Acts of Kindness
Michael Robertson (AMP 82, 1979) is the interim minister at Plymouth Congregational Church in Racine, Wisconsin. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on service to his community and the importance of advocating for kindness in our... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- News
A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches
Don H. Barden
Barden capitalized on the expansion of cable in the early eighties by targeting predominantly African-American communities. He secured the wiring rights to the city of Detroit and formed a partnership with Maclean Hunter, one of Canada’s largest cable companies, to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability to View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
The same will follow for the next five years, only more so, with more people connected for communication and collaboration. No one had mentioned financial markets, observed Robert Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks. His view of 2008... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the HBS View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Giving back is part of the social contract for any business
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, discusses how a company should be aligned with the objectives of its host community or country. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
He may be retired, but the Reverend Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) hasn’t stopped finding a way to connect his community to a higher spirituality. For this HBS-trained banker-turned-Episcopal priest, helping parishioners weather rough times... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental... View Details
- 2017
- Performance & Appearance
How Fabulous is too Fabulous? The Masculinity Dilemmas of Daring Dressers at Work
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
get involved with community development? For some years, the area around the church had been in steady decline, with vacant storefronts, deteriorating houses, and neglected properties. Gang activity and drug use were on the increase.... View Details