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- 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 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
utilities, and trucks—each with the best quality, fuel efficiency, safety, smart design, and value.” Global demand and increasing vehicle production in North America and Asia have resulted in the addition of... 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 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
- 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 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
- 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 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 Mar 2004
- News
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
- 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 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 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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development by Bill George and Doug Baker (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Incorporating recent research in psychology and sociology, George and his coauthor explain why a True... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
a conversation organized by the Latin America Research Center, there was significant discussion about how the recent influx of venture capital money will reshape the business environment and how established companies can respond to more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
and has worked with dozens of companies, primarily in North America and Europe. Although the team expected their clients would be mainly tech companies, which are typically hungry for data and eager for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
fundraise the vision into reality. Six years later, the American Writers Museum will open in late spring at 180 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, with Hammer serving as treasurer. “I had been chair of Washington Performing Arts but knew... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 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 Jun 2012
- News
Jump-Start
student teams, says Rock Center executive director Mike Roberts. “These are many of the same firms that regularly assist in our Business Plan Competition. They just want to see HBS students succeed.” Accel Partners Bain Capital Charles River Ventures Founder Collective... View Details