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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have on society. In places where... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
must, if we want to be free. How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure & Resilience by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) Audible Studios Pasricha combines his personal story of failure and resilience with the latest scientific research on happiness,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
operators, managers, and even friends. Staff outside A&R, too, keep their feelers out, reporting back to the department on anyone they feel "passionate" about, says Boberg. "If you've been around music for a long time," says Paul Knutson,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
orchestra’s longest-serving members, his tenure extending to the group’s previous iteration as the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. When that orchestra went bankrupt in 1991, felled by poor management, the musicians decided they probably couldn’t do any worse View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Much of the movement's inspiration can be traced back to education reformers like free-market economist Milton Friedman, who argued as early as 1955 that education aid should follow students to the school of their choice, thereby forcing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
entering the premises for their interview to say that they were going to turn back because this was not a suitable office space,” recalls Agarwala. “One candidate went to the extreme of saying that he could never get married if he worked... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
"to give a little back to America" in appreciation for the United States' support in rebuilding postwar Europe, Andresen notes. In announcing the new professorship, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark stated, "The timing of this gift couldn't be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
may be “extraordinary,” but it runs the risk of missing the mark. Studying “meltdown,” “executive pay,” “reporting,” and “liquidity” could be useful. Those subjects, however, are consequences not causes. Please give some thought and study... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
to macro shocks in the global economy, and there were few places to turn to for financial support. “There’s not much venture capital now, and for sure there wasn’t much venture capital back then,” he adds. “It was very tough to go to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
US Chamber of Commerce and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve that sponsors hiring fairs across the country and resulted in more than 14,000 veterans and military spouses obtaining jobs in the program’s first 18 months. He now lives View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
be on your convertible note.” Having recently celebrated her 10th Reunion back at Soldiers Field, Rawdon describes the experience as “fun on so many levels. Intellectually, socially and from a Tea point of view, there’s nothing like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
ventures—brings together many of them to discuss critical issues they’re facing, and faculty are a part of those conversations. Our alumni who have founded and scaled successful companies have been very willing to come back and be a part... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
fathers.” Bremer: “The scars in Iraq run very deep. The secret police, the thugs, the informers, the torture chambers, they may have gone. But the people of Iraq will be coping with the horrors of the mass graves and the individual and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in alumni data recorded back in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
graduation. Bill Clinton, move over. « Back to the top of the page Rockin' Round the Clock — Rajil Kapoor by James E. Aisner In a popular Boston nightspot, more than a thousand people (including a large contingent of HBS students) are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna