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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
extensively on the loyal support of many European HBS alumni, most of whom he had taught. Arnaud de Vitry (MBA ’53) headed up the operations. I had the pleasure of being a member of the team for seven years starting in 1970. They were... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
engaged campus community. Beyond the campus, the program’s impact is evident in a revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
investment decisions. Demonstrating how to use each method, the authors build a chronological knowledge base, define key terms and financial processes, and give an overview of LBO fundamentals and an organized M&A sale. Start with the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly, that plan wasn’t a short-term... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
school that would address the many problems afflicting the region—including lack of education, alcohol abuse, and moral decay. Pine Mountain owes its name to the late 19th-century settlement movement to improve the lives of poor, urban... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
don’t know what the answer is. They have to act, not plan their way forward. Hill began to despair of finding an answer to her problem until a chance meeting with Pixar executive Greg Brandeau in the lobby of a biotech firm—Hill was there... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Photo courtesy of Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) started at HBS in 2002, the private space industry was really just... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
surprises. Mainstream economics, however, hides from uncertainty, banishing it to the mystical world of unknown unknowns or reducing it to mechanistic calculation. Its textbooks ignore everyday problems that lack demonstrably correct... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
regional issues. I tried to get better informed on general world issues and solicited suggestions from former ambassadors. When it came time to leave, the President gave me a nice send-off. What do you do during a typical week? My day usually View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the problem... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
relative handful of African Americans and women on campus daily confronted cultural problems that could not be solved with a slide rule and pencil. READ MORE Steve Belkin Eve Benton Mike Feeley Ed Mathias Joe O'Donnell READ MORE Steve... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the outside world that they're doing good work, in order to secure the resources needed to do that work. But the real challenge is to start with the problem that you're trying to solve, figure out the right... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,” says Brown. “Its drawbacks are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
wanted to be outdoors," he says. A typical day on the farm runs 12 hours minimum, often stretching around the clock during calving season. "Twenty heifers may start giving birth in the middle of a snowstorm," says Whiteside. "Once I was... View Details