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- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with a solid body of work under his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
Conducting an independent study project during his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA ’92) learned that many talented minority college students didn’t know much about the business world, and therefore leaned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on short-term... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
before forming Indivers, a holding company that included Europe's first independent maker of extrusion dies. When a fire forced him to rebuild his facility in 1966, he discovered that he could also use his new machines to drill precise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
One Harvard: The Power of Collaboration For years, centuries even, Harvard has been an institution made up of distinct (and distinctive) schools conducting research and educating students largely independent of one another. As society... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
election but was invited back to Soldiers Field by the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and to INCAE, which is still flourishing in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries. At the same time, he began a three-year... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
life.” Watson achieved financial independence with the sale of his first company in 1988. “It was a milestone,” he admits, “but I found myself asking, ‘So what?'” The question led Watson, who is divorced and has no children, to reexamine... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
impact, especially as it related to health, education, and the rights of women and children. But in 2016, while I was working in India for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a passion project of mine—what would become the Partition... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration. An enterprising MBA student independently working to further existing research, she says, is “one of the interactions that you won’t find at other schools.” This kind of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
who was working as a senior project manager at Amazon, had become obsessed with understanding why the paper-heavy US immigration process remained so difficult and expensive. “Immigration is one of those overlooked areas where technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
favorite food. I like dark roast, black, in my Yeti mug, which keeps it extra hot.” First job: Working in the Cuyahoga County [Ohio] Commissioner’s office. “It started with my senior project in high school and continued through college. I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
Hubert, SVP at Viacom and head of Scratch, the company’s “creative SWAT team.” That means change on a global scale: Millennials, currently one-third of the global population and more than 85 million strong in the United States, are View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
solutions journalism and describes how his organization is training journalists in its techniques. “I am president of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is a three-year-old independent nonprofit organization founded to build in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
actually released in 1995. The year brought no major new musical genre to generate album sales the way rap and alternative rock had in previous years. "Product returns from financially pinched retailers were very heavy last year, affecting both major and View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Mac Bartels (Photo courtesy of Mac Bartels) Just back from the Toronto Film Festival, Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993), copresident of independent film producer and distributor Roadside Attractions, talks to Mac Bartels (HBS 2016) about how he... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author of... View Details