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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Everywhere—Finally Fit to Drink On the heels of this past summer’s crippling drought, California hit the switch on a long-promised technological solution to the water crisis: desalination. Poseidon Water’s $1 billion plant in Carlsbad... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized their products to View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
our classmates took off her shoes and—WHOA—eyes burning, nose on fire, it was the worst stench you could imagine! When we asked her why she didn’t do anything, she said the current options stunk (pun intended); they either didn’t work, changed the View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
difficult for women to fit in. The experience made me realize how important it is for women to form networks." So when Ma attended the WSA Women's Admit Day - a one-day introduction to life at HBS - and met other professional women who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
women total on Fortune 500 boards. And diversity wasn’t particularly thought to be an important or desirable thing, even for a company whose business was focused on women. I mean, a good example would be Avon, which sold beauty products... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two funds with a View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
opportunity to learn brand-building and strategies from four top brand leaders. This year’s panel featured: Bahram Akradi, CEO, chairman, and founder of Life Time, a chain of fitness clubs focused on total... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
other academic institution in the world. For three-quarters of a century, the Bulletin has tracked the extraordinary record of achievement of HBS alumni. And so it seems fitting that at the dawn of a new millennium, we should draw upon... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
but Jose totally understood. “I remember my first visit to see him, when I shared my desire to work in the food industry in a way that was working to drive social good—he started immediately pulling cases off his bookshelf for me to read... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks off the World Cup 12 miles across... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
good at it. Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA 1972) (Potomac Books) Every four years Americans embark on the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus that causes fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The spread of MERS had been limited since its emergence in Saudi Arabia in 2012, with only about 2,500 total cases globally, but one in three infections... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
project received funding totaling over $1.2 million and were able to re-hire all 900 of their employees. JUNE 1 Arnel F. Almira, who is currently enrolled in OPM 54, is CEO of Alfa All Food Asia, a B2B distributor of imported fresh frozen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
with the father of an MIT professor named Joe Jacobson, who was working on something at the MIT Media Lab that might fit the bill. What Wilcox saw when he followed up on Rayport’s lead — a thumb-sized patch of electronic ink smeared on a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
reached out to help all individuals and enterprises, no matter how small, that had been affected by the attack. No other city in the world has a larger concentration of HBS alumni than New York, particularly Lower Manhattan, home of the financialservices industry. So... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
this book and its lessons all the more urgent? Michael Horn: I think the anxiety of individuals right now in the job market is off the charts in many respects. We know individuals stay in their jobs right now, they're not quitting because they're nervous about will I... View Details