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- 12 Feb 2012
- News
The horizon vocabulary
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
virtually every other parent who’s been through this journey,” he says. “The doctors call you into the little room and they say, ‘I’m sorry to tell you, your child has autism. It’s genetic. There’s nothing that can be done about it.’ ”... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
portfolio of one stock, which in effect is what working for a company is, right? If you're working full time for a company, you're holding a portfolio of one stock. And if someone calls you up and says, Hey, why don't you sell that stock... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
bed. Another couple might kiss two times. It’s not the number that matters; it’s the fact that they’ve been doing it. You can call it a habit, but you’re not getting something done, exactly. It’s a reaffirmation of a bond: We’ve done... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
produce daily. Tisch held a conference call with her operations chiefs at 5 a.m., and by 8 a.m. she was on the phone with Mayor Eric Adams while parked outside a DSNY facility. Striding into a garage the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
between customer and brand Fung sees as key to business success in a Web3 world—and more than 4,000 participated in a virtual event during Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals. Fung herself came to the Web3 space from the fintech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Austin mercifully moved on. He then called on me to open the first class after Thanksgiving, the first after Christmas, the first after Easter break, and the last class of the year—when I analyzed a Gillette case for about 20 minutes and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. When... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
up poor in a single-parent home in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, such success could not have seemed within reach. After graduating from a vocational high school, Dunn went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1947, he joined the Marine Corps Reserves and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
government-backed fund that saw one of the country’s first exits in 2011—an ISP called Link.net. That was one of an accumulation of tipping points, notes Ismail. “In 2012, 2013, we started getting the first attempts at incubators,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
schools seeking to hire new professors. In the stories that follow, the Bulletin presents four members of the next generation of business education leaders, a group as diverse in their backgrounds and interests as they are committed to what one student View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
subtle language errors made by nonnative speakers of English in investor conference calls can be linked to literal dollars and cents in the marketplace. When top leaders fumbled with the language as they led... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the fifth annual Alumni Healthcare... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Last month, the fourth annual “Harvard Arab Weekend” conference was held at venues around the University, including HBS. The theme of the conference was “Leadership in the Private, Social, and Public... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
Dressed in black pants and a black U-Haul shirt, Joe Shoen, 66, is sitting in a conference room in the middle of a meeting. His cellphone buzzes. Brenda, a customer moving from Michigan to Florida, is furious about a U-Haul phone operator... View Details