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- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
analysis showed that the biggest need was more basic. “There’s a significant unmet demand for restaurant workers,” she said. The culinary school will be housed in a failed venture in downtown New Orleans... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
another HBS case discussion in the spring of 1978, calculator in hand, Bricklin (MBA '79) had an epiphany: there should be a computer program that could speed up the tedious computations case analysis often demanded. His concept, the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is running dry. Based on his View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around the world and to View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
support lined up, Tierney and Bradach faced a final hurdle, writing a business plan. “There was no analysis that could have been done that we hadn’t done,” recalls Tierney. “But it’s one thing to help somebody else write a business plan.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their course acronyms: EA General (Elements of Administration –... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
its pipeline, Moderna had refined its development process—which begins with an analysis of a virus’s messenger RNA (mRNA)—and it had improved its production capabilities. Two months earlier, when he'd met NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
are now beginning to treat genetic analysis as an integral element in a patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan. But it cannot stop there. Since most currently practicing physicians have not been trained in this new field, there is a need... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere. Speed & Scale intersperses... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
blah, blah. Talking about a case and the antipathy towards theory, the lack of a foundation in disciplines like economics and mathematics and so on, I thought was appalling. Okay. So on one WAC, you know, Written Analysis of Case. Okay.... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
secured an internship in banking and equity research, and in his junior year, he did a banking internship, both times at Credit Suisse. After graduation, Westphal spent two years working at JPMorgan, where he honed his business skills and enjoyed working in a... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
outsider, free of the usual debts to the party machine. Mitsotakis came to power as a relative outsider, free of the usual debts to the party machine. A year later, as a Harvard undergrad, Mitsotakis wrote his senior thesis about Greek foreign policy and dedicated the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the required resources, including capital, and how they exploit those... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
to satisfy a greater overall demand for coverage focusing on the intersection of political and economic issues. That shift is reflected in Capital Report and other new programming launched in February, which also includes more live,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
balance with such a demanding work life? I bike or run to work most days. It helps me to step back and see things in a different way. I’m home at 6:30 on weekdays to have dinner and generally don’t go into the office on weekends, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to capitalize on information, allowing them to minimize their exposure to demand uncertainty." Given this new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
to do what I love.” * * * * * An MBA isn’t a prerequisite for entrée to Hollywood, but the entrepreneurial demands of starting up a movie require many of the skills honed in the HBS classroom. “For a producer, every project is a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple... View Details