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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
industries have in common? When an industry faces a shock, it can attempt to compete directly with the new technology or retreat into a niche. However, some technologies are well suited for a third strategy, one that’s anchored on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
generated from the company's experiences, have proved valuable across the School. The Novartis Indonesia case anchored a daylong MBA exercise devoted to furthering students' understanding of the Asian financial crisis. Novartis cases have... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
which offers outstanding networking opportunities, he adds. The School’s ever-evolving support for entrepreneurship is anchored by three priorities, according to Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), director of the Rock Center: to catalyze... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
the Internet craze with Admart. “I just lost the prudence a businessman should have,” he confesses. “I wouldn’t have gone so deeply into it if the market hadn’t given us such crazy valuations. It was unreal.” Going forward, says Lai, “the Internet will be just an... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
metres (80ft) down, the wreck is in perfect condition, with metal sheeting that reinforced the hull against sea ice clearly visible amid swaying kelp. A long, heavy rope line running through a hole in the ship’s deck suggests an anchor... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
program that his organization is promoting to veterans as a way of anchoring and investing in their communities. “HeroHomes is like a Zillow.com for military vets. We find and educate the vets; we get them to the website, which is part of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Just south of Washington, DC, on the banks of the Potomac River, sits the Crow’s Nest, a rural 6,000-acre peninsula named for a three-masted schooner, The Crow, which anchored on its shores in the 1700s. Today, much of this land is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
to believe that all things are possible and that your assets can be key differentiators in a sea of overachievers,” she says. “Determine what anchors you and leverage what sets you apart, and then go boldly into your future with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
will be replaced by Klarman Hall, a state-of-the-art convening center expected to open in 2018. Anchoring the southern edge of the green next to Spangler, Klarman will provide enhanced space and increased capacity for academic conferences... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
the time,” she recalls. “We were watching the coverage unfold before the second plane hit, but we didn’t fully understand what was going on.” CNBC anchor Mark Haines was on air at the time. “I heard Mark saying that from the size and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on the University's 2007 Biomedical Accelerator Fund (also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
spent a lot of time on lately is removing amber-colored dried tape anchoring the corners of early 20th-century photos from the United Fruit Company archives. Seventy-five photo albums document decades of social and business history across... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
pineapple. Another optional day tour from Zanzibar was a snorkeling and deep-sea diving excursion. A 45-minute boat ride from our beachfront hotel led us to a spot where we anchored and swam or dove in a spectacular coral reef with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
by other energy- and water-saving measures, anchors the School’s application for Shad to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. HBS now has five LEED-certified buildings — Aldrich, Gallatin, Hamilton,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
jewelry and furs to sweatshirts and school supplies,” quips the tall, affable, Charlestown, Massachusetts, native, who in 1991 left his job as general manager at Neiman Marcus in Texas to accept the challenge of “putting the Coop on track for the next one hundred... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
market “slack” and the absence of any significant increase in wage pressures, suggesting that inflation will remain well contained for the near term. The Fed spends a good deal of time watching inflation expectations data, as those seem to feed into and View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Historically, public equities have been the anchor to growth in most of my clients' portfolios. After three years in a row of negative public-equity returns, which hasn't happened since 1939, I have seen growing frustration and a movement... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention; anchors analysis in the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
The Pressure Drop anchored above the Mariana Trench in May. (photo by Tamara Stubbs) A potentially new species of sea squirt discovered in the Indian Ocean’s Java Trench in April (courtesy Five Deeps Expedition) Victor Vescovo has always... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
and 1927. “Donham’s innovations became anchor points for subsequent campus development,” says Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). “Our unique status as a residential business school has guided decisions about the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg