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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
sisters to private school and providing them with a culturally rich home life — this bright young woman, whose Nigerian first name means “Thank God,” has made it a priority to help children who have not been as fortunate as she. As a psychology View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the majority of our profits have gone back to our investors, who are dominated by America's great universities and foundations. So when we have a good result, those organizations have more capital to pay professors, build laboratories,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
with an open mind.” Schock says her husband, Chris, has provided major support and served as a sounding board during her time at HBS. “He's really invested a lot of time and energy in the HBS community, including giving tours of our... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
We arrived over several days in early January, most of us flying into Arusha, Tanzania, although some chose to travel via Nairobi, Kenya. Coming from ten countries, we were met by Global Adrenaline’s local representatives, who escorted us to the New Arusha Hotel. For... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
School, and the Harvard University Center on the Environment, making important contributions. In April, after four years of research, the Program released “Envision,” a rating system for major government infrastructure projects that helps... View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
motivated you and your HBS colleagues to develop a course specifically for leaders of professional service firms? Lorsch: Professional service firms represent an $80 billion industry worldwide. In the US and Europe, they comprise 17 percent of the GDP. Professional... View Details
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. At the Class of 2020 welcoming reception last year, Dean Nohria told us that HBS will transform us in three dimensions – academics,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
was one of the original and largest HBS alumni clubs for a long time,” Slivka says. “Our records show that our first club president was Nathan Pearson (MBA 1934) who served in 1941 to 1942. So we go back close to 80 years.” Slivka said the club was most active in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
is down, therefore basket size is down—so everybody in the mall is affected by traffic being down. If you have two or three major traffic-driving tenants in trouble, this affects the entire mall. This then creates a domino effect in the... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
executives at a major multinational corporation, and with participants in an open-enrollment program at a major business school. Student course feedback and a follow-up survey administered about one year... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
advertising? A: Advertising is at an interesting crossroads. Most of the money is still being spent on traditional advertising such as television. But with new opportunities to get in front of, and more importantly interact with, the audience we have seen a growth in... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
a variety of metrics, Trader Joe's ranked as one of the most successful grocers in the United States in 2013. Experts estimated that the company had the highest sales per square foot of any major grocery chain, even significantly high... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing, PCs. And that defined the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
corporate responses were not homogeneous. There were major variations between individual managers, companies, industrial sectors, and national business systems. This working paper supports this reinterpretation by examining the case of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
Paid transfers of IP addresses would better allocate resources to those who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to facilitate an IP address "market" while avoiding View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
to mind is SCALE. Everything in India is large. Between my global partner and the other 5 partners working with other HBS groups in New Delhi, there is an immense amount of talent in this country. The country still has far to go, but with a population of 1.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Paul Lenehan
professors are really good at teasing out contrary positions." As an example, Paul points to a case on the media industry. "Just today, we were talking about publishing and the future of a major economics magazine. The... View Details
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Jessica Kramer
As an economics major at Dartmouth looking for career direction, Jessica Kramer saw Morgan Stanley’s employment offer as “a good way to earn my chops” in business. Two years selling interest-rate derivatives in New York City, plus another... View Details
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Julio Cedeno
physics, he attended Stanford for college. "I thought I'd major in either subject, but the courses were more theoretical than I liked," Julio says. "Electrical engineering was more practical and built upon my... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Meredith Riggs Spangler, and two daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler, he gave a major gift to the School that made the Spangler Center, a focal point of campus life for the entire HBS community, possible.... View Details