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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
In the foreground of this fall 1926 photo, workers construct the Weeks Bridge; in the distance, the HBS campus takes shape (Harvard University Property Information Resource Center) Except for the brief reign of commencement mortarboards,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
properties are being rehabilitated both privately and through nonprofit programs, and residents volunteer their labor to help with face-lifts. A commercial developer has recently proposed an office complex... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
business, women as professionals, and women’s personal lives. Included are materials as diverse as the diaries of whaling captains’ wives, wills that show how 18th-century property laws affected women, advertisements for “female... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Yeo's ninth-floor office in one of the seven gleaming new buildings of Singapore's Biopolis-a $500 million, eighteen-acre complex dedicated to cutting-edge research and development in the biomedical sciences by the world's leading... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded was the most a medical... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
games. It was all part of a long term strategy to improve the franchise by getting better draft picks. And it necessitated a short term strategy of losing. Throughout, though, the 76er CEO Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998) says his front office... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
of the Republican Party. His Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise never to raise taxes, has been signed by President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) and most Republican members of Congress. But his influence extends beyond tax issues. Since 1993, Norquist has hosted in his... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
held the record for the largest buyout, Equity Office Properties at $38.9 billion, which was eclipsed by the recent $45 billion TXU deal. How big can deals go? I don’t know. That’s a game that people always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
when the future of the business hinged on a single decision. For Sarina Russo (OPM 28, 1999), founder and president of the Sarina Russo Group of education, employment services, and property companies, that moment came in 1993 when she... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
16 million internet properties pass through the company’s network, which acts like a neighborhood watch for the internet—spotting potential threats but also helping websites run faster and better. It was named one of the world’s most... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
out on his own, and he and Fern bought ZAX, Inc., a struggling company that produced custom-designed wood and laminate office fixtures, because, well, he thought he’d give that a shot. “We basically had to mortgage everything, including... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
officer at CarbonCapture Inc. “The impact of the Inflation Reduction Act is enormous. I think it really hasn’t hit home yet,” says Jonas Lee (MBA 1993), chief commercial officer at CarbonCapture Inc., which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
contexts,” remarks Abrami, a fluent speaker of Chinese and Vietnamese who has lived in both countries. Another project proposed an e-solution to meet the needs of consumers who must finish newly purchased apartments; in China, a property... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Weights and Hurdles This is the sort of heavy lifting that has occupied A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of ACOG, for the last five years. Asked how he's enjoying the workout, the gruff but amiable Frazier tilts back in his chair at ACOG's downtown View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details