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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
to help managers navigate the myriad decisions they must make in order to create value from their foreign operations and outperform competitors in an increasingly integrated world. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
associate professor Walter Kuemmerle, who developed the elective course International Entrepreneurial Finance by writing cases that involve about twenty different countries. “The largest group to take the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Directors. Ballots will be mailed View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
senior vice president at Symantec by day, and by night—well, at least seven or eight nights a year—a no-holds-barred guitarist, vocalist, and emcee for a band that donates its earnings to local schools. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
High Stakes on the High Seas
book, The Proving Ground. Knecht made ten trips to Australia to research what it was like on board three of the boats, including Sayonara, skippered by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, one of the wealthiest men in the world. Knecht has written a... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP, which started small View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
March Bulletin, regarding your excerpts from Walter Kiechel’s book, The Lords of Strategy: Bruce Henderson (MBA ’41) clearly made “the experience curve” famous and used it to help build The Boston Consulting Group. But BCG’s formulation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
dropped into the plot of Breaking Bad, might ask himself what he should do. Walter White is not an aberration: Most people facing ethical dilemmas reflexively ask just that, according to a new paper coauthored View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
Birth of a Salesman by Walter A. Friedman Clearing the Hurdles by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart Just Enough View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
Applied Sciences at Harvard; Harvard fellow Walter Scheirer; and PhD candidate Sam Anthony, all cofounders—narrowed their focus to autonomous cars. By 2016, the startup had a bank of desks in the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their business forward, but their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University's elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the first week of April, and completed ballots must be received View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
Five years ago, HBS professor Francis J. Aguilar (now emeritus) and Walter Y. Elisha (MBA '65), then chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc., brought together a dynamic coalition of corporations and business schools to address the... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
assisted by special guest Zhang Ruimin, president and CEO of China's Haier Group, a maker of appliances; a briefing by HBS assistant professor Walter Kuemmerle on global... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction writing a full-time pursuit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
rather crude reference to the bathrooms used by two or three suites of students.” An expert in the fields of consumer marketing and retail distribution, Walter Salmon (MBA ’54) graduated from the City... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Illustrations by Josh Cochran When actor Jeffrey Tambor stepped to the podium at this year’s Golden Globe Awards to accept the honor of Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy, he did so for a show that didn’t premiere on HBO,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment