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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
Conference on India and Its Neighbors, a student-organized gathering held on the HBS campus in February and sponsored by the HBS South Asian Business Association. Shahla Aly, now a general manager at Microsoft, came to North View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor factory north of Albany, New... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Mandela in Triumph at Harvard
imprisoned for 27 years before becoming South Africa's president in 1994, noted that this would likely be his last official visit to America before he leaves the presidency next year. He then delivered a twenty-minute address that focused... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
Smiles all around: Guatemalan schoolchildren enjoy the fruits of their labor. photo courtesy John Batcha Batcha in his Charlotte, North Carolina, garden with his grandchildren, Nicole and David Spencer. photo by Roger Ball When he retired... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
access to some companies, he was nonetheless able to meet with a number of business leaders. Casadesus-Masanell is developing a new course and writing a book and several cases based on the research he and the JRC conducted. Latin America... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
operational systems has resulted in a 99.9 percent compliance rate in order fulfillment; it is also the only baking company in North America to be registered ISO 9001, the highest standard for quality... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
speakers: Maria Bartiromo, anchor, CNBC; Betsy D. Holden, president & CEO, Kraft Foods North America Bartiromo on gauging a company’s strengths: Watch the fundamentals. “Cash flow does not lie.” Scrutinize... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
A FEEL-GOOD HIGH: Founder Sarah Endline with sweetriot’s tiny treats. As a girl in Auburn, Michigan, a small town two hours north of Detroit, Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) grew up with a clear understanding of the link between crops in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
The late C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler Jr. (MBA 1956, LLD 2013) combined the business acumen he developed as president of the C. D. Spangler Construction Company and Golden Eagle Industries, and as chairman of the Bank of North Carolina, with a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
Immersive Media “The single largest revenue stream for sports in North America is media rights. The sports industry is slowly adapting to new formats and platforms, which is having an immediate impact on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
high-pitched speaking voice, he made a powerful impression. I next encountered him in March 1944. I was chief of the Third Army’s Test and Inspection Section, and our unit had been ordered overseas. At his headquarters in an elegant estate about 100 miles View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
were the first company in North America to perform the Mahler, because it requires an extraordinary orchestra and corps of dancers.” It also demands something of the viewer, in a way that more narrative... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
company envisions solid future growth, through acqui-sitions and by exploiting its brand: The Club Med name is known throughout the world. Yves Martin explains that North America is a prime target for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
They include a tour of Toyota North America headquarters, which recently moved to Dallas; special seminars on real estate, since, he says, Dallas is described as the Wall Street of the real estate industry;... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
55924f11e238861c488df17b6d091a14 All Steve Jones (MBA ’78) really wanted was a part-time teaching job at his alma mater. Instead, he ended up as dean of UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. “I’m sort of an accidental dean,” he joked with the Durham, View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, eighty miles north of Fargo. At the time, Joan was pregnant with the first of the couple’s five children. “My mother was sure they wouldn’t have any doctors out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
census takers in Watford City, North Dakota—in the far west of the state, 50 miles from the Montana border—counted 1,435 people. Today, that number is estimated to be at least 10,000. A familiar fuel for American boomtowns fed the rapid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
oil from these ecologically sensitive areas would fuel North America’s energy needs for just two weeks. That stark fact took on a human face when Sander met Santiago, chief of the Achuar, a rain-forest tribe. “Alison, you need to go back... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
attack had been moved forward by 48 hours. As such, Major Gurfein was tasked to support Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 7’s rapid assault north by immediately ensuring that the final obstacles, along the Iraqi border, in the lanes that 7th... View Details