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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
International in the early 70s, is that right? FL: Yes. We decided to use our precious capital to make a toe hole position in a troubled airline. And the most trouble at that time was Texas International, the smallest of the 18 airlines. They were well overdue on their... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance Corporation of the World View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
scuttled by. The factory, its walls covered with union stickers and pro-worker graffiti, contained the seeds for change. Any practical businessman, however, could see that despite the story’s romance, reviving Jeannette was an equation... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Fitzhugh Conference Redefining Wealth: Claim It, Grow It, Sustain It January 31–February 2, 2003 Sponsor: HBS African-American Student Union Keynote speaker: Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972), president & CEO, The Partnership, Inc. Bert King... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
frame the bay view from the piazza, and the sizable chunk of a Civil War cannon that came to rest in the sturdy house's attic after being blown apart by the Confederates as Union troops approached. "We get a lot of requests from... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
hardest days don't seem as long as they would if you were working for someone else." He especially relished his relationship with SABO's employees, and during his regime the company was one of only a handful of nonunionized manufacturers in Germany (the company would... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
conference hosted by the HBS African American Student Union (AASU). More than 550 attendees gathered in late January for the three-day meeting, which featured academic and social events held on campus and at the nearby Hyatt Regency... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing with the ramifications of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Above: Friedman at Union Glacier, Antarctica Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. While Ken Friedman (MBA 1983) was at HBS, he and a group of about a dozen friends would... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Stackpole Books On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
three days straight, but it was the best three days of my life—much better than flying to Europe and dealing with labor unions in France." Wolf Creek Farm produces 30 tons of beef a year for the local market, selling directly to consumers... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
New Jersey, public schools. The cases include overviews of the changing telecommunications marketplace, education reform efforts, how Bell selected Union City, the objectives of both partners, and outcomes of the partnership. First... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Fellow, before being hired to serve as the center’s director of strategic initiatives. “I worked primarily with the president and the CFO of Lincoln Center, and that was an extraordinary opportunity,” Houston says. “I gained experience in everything from labor View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
competition with upstarts like Southwest Airlines and the clashes with unions that led Fortune to name him one of “America’s toughest bosses,” along with accolades from his employees. Along the way, Lorenzo highlights the strategies and... View Details