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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
markets where American football has no grassroots presence. Ongoing concerns include players' use of performance-enhancing drugs and off-field misbehavior and the PR and internal challenges they pose. And then there is the mounting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
epic battle is the Murr Center, the brick edifice at the open end of the Stadium. A 1998 gift of Michael Murr (MBA ’75), the building houses squash and tennis courts; a Harvard athletics history hall; and administrative offices, including that of Harvard athletics... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
Chinese officials, members of his own administration, and the owner and president of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990), for the successful collaboration across public and private sectors. “It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and president Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990) suggested an innovation they’d like to see: a way to predict the next Tom Brady. The Retail and Luxury Goods Club brought designer Tommy Hilfiger to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
Kraft told the Boston Globe (February 6, 2002). "To see people of all backgrounds cheering for the team, we've accomplished part of our dream of being able to bring the community together." The organization's senior vice president and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Making the Case
Professor Michael Porter addresses the HBS Club of Washington, DC, as part of "The Case for American Competitiveness" event co-sponsored by the club and the American Security Project think tank in July. DC... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Center Court
It was a big boost for American tennis when Andy Roddick triumphed at the U.S. Open in September, and no one was more pleased than United States Tennis Association president Alan Schwartz (MBA 1954). Having... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Moving On
Christopher B. Howard (MBA 2003) is president of Robert Morris University and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he explains his philosophy of achieving success. “I come from a great View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
War History
In September, with President Obama trying to rally support for military action against Syria, the media repeatedly sought out Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980), the author of eight books about American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Restoring Order
Last December, calling him “one of the most respected business leaders in our nation,” President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) nominated Wall Street veteran William Donaldson (MBA 1958) to be Securities and Exchange Commission chairman.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
Beschloss Photo Courtesy of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Following the death of former President Ronald Reagan in June, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) was frequently quoted in the media on his assessment of... View Details
Thomas Adams, Jr.
Experimenting with chicle (a gum substance from the Mexican Spodilla tree), Adams discovered a commercial use for the substance by utilizing it in the manufacture of a chewing gum. Adams developed public acceptance of this new and unique product, forming the View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
rule this system of parallel governance limits rather than enhances the flow of ideas.) Few party secretaries—like few presidents of American universities—look favorably on the prospect of unbridled faculty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
Other HBS alumni are also feeling welcome inside the Beltway. Among them is longtime conservative tax strategist Grover Norquist (MBA ’81), president of Americans for Tax Reform, who “has the Bush... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
leaders in their respective fields,” said Williams, who has spent most of his career in East Asia, most recently as a private consultant in China. In addition, he has served as the first foreign president of a Chinese commercial bank at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
slaves for life 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1677 First recorded prosecution against strikers in New York City 1680 Virginia hypersurveillance law enacted: An act for preventing Negroes Insurrections 1773 Laborers protest royal taxation in the Boston tea Party 1775 View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
continued excellence in the 21st century. In the early 1960s, at the request of President John F. Kennedy, HBS formed a team headed by a youthful (now professor emeritus) George Lodge to study the feasibility of a Central View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
The online bio of EARTH University’s new president Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) describes him as “Ecuadorian by birth, Latin American by heart.” Condo, a distinguished scholar and author, and the former View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg