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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Vicente Fox, who was then governor of the state of Guanajuato. “I didn’t want to abandon the business or my research, because both were important to me,” recalls Ramirez. After Fox’s historic victory last summer, Ramirez joined a team of... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
within three months became one of the most successful brands of its day. When the company abandoned its plan to take AltaVista public, Lang left. “I didn’t agree with the strategy,” she says matter-of-factly. “I wasn’t going to stick... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
newspaper column, he wrote, “No matter how much feeling of public obligation the executive staff of any corporation might possess, the corporate entity is involved in maximizing short and long run profit .The old yardstick is deadly but we cannot View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
history and to our future.” This week, Balsillie’s exploration uncovered another famous wreck—the HMS Terror, which was abandoned alongside the HMS Erebus and whose fate remained a mystery for 168 years. That is, until this Sunday. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
way or another, the experience of waiting touches all of us,” says Associate Professor Ryan Buell. His recent working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues,” examines the human tendency to be uncomfortable as the last person in line–causing us to switch lines or View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Condo Mania
Biscayne Bay. Someday, Sternlicht believes, wealthy buyers will want to live there; right now, he concedes, “this looks like an abandoned property. We have to make it look like it’s alive” (New York Times, May 30, 2010). Sternlicht became... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
overly dependent on downtown locations that were losing shoppers to suburban malls. Some New England rivals were opening discount stores in abandoned textile mills, which came with cheap rents and plenty of parking space. Mr. Feldberg,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Georgia. In their travels, they discovered numerous abandoned churches—and many small but thriving congregations. The duo photographed and documented their histories, first on a popular website and now in a coffee-table book, Historic... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
Tamayo explains. But fossil fuels obviously come with well-known costs, in the form of air pollution and negative effects to human health, and they don’t fit with the picture of a carbon-neutral future. Colombia’s example shows that View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
As an MBA student, Leng Lim (MBA 2001) found his motives and goals were questioned more than most. “People say, ‘You’re a priest? You’ve abandoned God for money?’ My response is, ‘Why is it OK for you to make money, but not OK for me to... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Alexandra Palace, site of the 2017 Allianz World Championship of drone racing (photo by PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo) Fall 2016 Drone Racing League, ESPN, Sky Sports, and ProSiebenSat.1 agree to broadcast the first season of five races. Venues include Miami’s Hard... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
no means certain. Raising philanthropic dollars can be as hard and time-consuming as raising money from the NIH. And these projects will have to be set up with duplicate equipment in geographically separate areas to avoid using government-funded facilities. Sadly,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
to the ideal of entrepreneurship itself rather than to a single business model or product. That flexibility helps them react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and business models that aren’t working. 2. Look for problems to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
next two yearbooks listed only one person each. Apparently the program was abandoned due to lack of interest. (Later, in 1940, according to Jeff Cruikshank’s A Delicate Experiment, a history of HBS from 1908 to 1945, Professor George P.... View Details