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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
doctors, and we brought in insurance specialists to help people make insurance and FEMA claims. When you reopened the Long Beach plant on September 9, did everyone get right back to work? The first thing we did when the lights went on powered by hastily purchased View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Ed participants as early as possible and to maintain that connection over the next few critical years; to encourage early involvement with local alumni clubs; and to generate additional ideas to make the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
launch last fall with “two ex-Microsoft guys.” All three are pilots, and fittingly, their first product is a flight-planning software program called Voyager. “It’s for general aviation pilots — private pilots and commercial charter... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce space himself, first as vice... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Katahira, an economist at the University of Tokyo. Years of economic stagnation and generational shifts mean that previous assumptions are quickly becoming obsolete, Katahira noted. "Japanese consumers and the concept of consumer... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
11 HBS alumni clubs and associations currently offer forums. "I've been a member of a traditional forum here in L.A. and I think it's super powerful," says Paul Donaher (MBA 1981), copresident of the association. "One day in 2021, I was telling a friend about it, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman, in providing the gift for this remarkable new building, had... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
history. The excitement traditionally generated by these annual events was further heightened this year as participants gathered in Hong Kong, the gateway city to China, which on July 1 will revert from British rule to Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
Often my classmates and I would consider not going to class if we had somehow not read the case for fear of embarrassing ourselves. This was truer for Walt’s marketing class than for any others. But more than the tremendous respect he View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop paying office rent — upwards of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
fall short, but it’s an important idea that resounds to this day. One of the particular things that the founders did back in the 1990s that turned out to be very important was to put focus on social entrepreneurship—which is about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
work. There has almost been a whole generation of MBA students and managers who have been brought up on a false idea that manufacturing is kind of the brawn and not the brain, and that the country should... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
things like shapes, lines, and colors. So if you ask Google what a dog is, Google Images will offer you billions of results. Google’s not the only one. From Microsoft and Amazon to countless buzzy Valley startups, when someone says they are involved in AI, they are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
the LARC, noted that the center is striving to "combine strengths" among different institutions throughout the region and at HBS. Part of its mission, he explained, will be to assist HBS faculty members by generating case leads and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
keep that history, and that original mission, in focus. “David recognized early on that the web was absolutely transforming the way the media business in general functioned,” says James Bennet, the Atlantic’s editor in chief and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
generates electricity as it rolls—“[a] project that makes the world a better place.” Cofounder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City that creates a line of socially beneficial play-based products, she was on Forbes... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Bain, consumers—perhaps wary of greenwashing in the notoriously opaque industry—have thus far not discerned the difference between the sustainability of the two methods of production. With Aether, Hagemann hopes to change that. Convincing the next View Details