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- 08 Nov 2013
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Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Cocktails) The main forces behind that surge have to do with changing attitudes around drinking. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the pandemic opened up a fault line, with a 21 percent spike in excessive drinking on one side, according to a study from View Details
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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats | MBA
2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats Threats Involving Deadly Weapons, Explosives, Bombs, Chemical or Biological Agents, or Other Deadly Devices or Substance The following provision of Massachusetts law concerning certain kinds of threats... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
Through UP Education Network, founder Scott Given (MBA 2010) is helping to turn around chronically underperforming Massachusetts schools by making and managing significant changes in all areas, from curriculum and schedules to personnel... View Details
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Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library
Boston Manufacturing Company Records Boynton, I.M. 75 young women from 15 to 35 years of age, wanted to work in the cotton mills! :in Lowell and Chicopee, Mass. [S.l. : s.n., ca. 1870]. The Boston Manufacturing Company was a textile firm established in Waltham, View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
The Results Are (Mostly) In
election day.) US Senate Mitt Romney (MBA 1974), the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, won the Utah seat previously held by retiring Senator Orrin Hatch. Businessman Mike Braun (MBA 1978) defeated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
dedicated to creating and advancing solutions to the core issues driving climate change Matthew Commons (MBA 2007) FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation Waltham and Wilbraham, Massachusetts Wind turbine manufacturer Patricia A. Connolly (MBA... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
milestone for the biotech industry, which has been slow to diversity its leadership, according to a story in the Boston Globe. The article cites a report from 2017 by the Massachusetts Biotech Council, which found that women were far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
rebuilding.” Since becoming law in 2006, reform in Massachusetts has meant coverage not only for Madelyn Rhenisch but also for all except a tiny percentage of the state’s residents. Rhenisch’s story, and thousands of others like it in... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes... View Details
Sarah Hodges
spinouts. Sarah was previously a member of the executive team at Pluralsight (NASDAQ: PS), the world’s largest online learning community for IT, dev and creative training. Prior to Pluralsight, she co-founded Intelligent.ly, a leadership development company that... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows learning from others’ success and... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
contests with real impact in healthcare. We have two programs underway with the Connectivity MAP at the Broad Institute for accelerating drug discovery, and one program with Massachusetts General Hospital on genomic sequencing. Our goal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
New HBSAA Members
Twelve new members will join the HBS Alumni Association Board in October for three-year stints. They are: Jessie d’E. Bourneuf (MBA ’75), Milton, Massachusetts Miro Copic (MBA ’87), San Diego, California Adolfo B. Fastlicht (MBA ’93),... View Details
Albert H. Wiggin
When Wiggin joined Chase in 1904, it was a modest bank with assets of just $250 million. As president, however, Wiggin oversaw a huge expansion wave, including the 1917 founding of the Chase Securities subsidiary. Wiggin's numerous business ties helped gain a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Francis C. Rooney, Jr.
During his 23-year tenure as CEO, Rooney led Melville’s dramatic expansion as a focused retail industry conglomerate. His acquisition of CVS in 1969 became the primary profitability producer for the corporation. Under his leadership, Melville grew to be a $5 billion... View Details
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Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.
Having worked in many of the company's subsidiaries since graduating from college, Rockwell Jr. assumed leadership from his father in 1967 and expanded the company across the globe through a series of mergers and acquisitions. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Willard F. Rockwell
Trained as an engineer, Rockwell had several positions in the auto-parts manufacturing industry prior to becoming president of the entity now known as Rockwell International. Though the company was successful as an auto-parts maker, Rockwell expanded it into many other... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Edward C. Johnson III
Johnson turned the mutual fund group, founded by his father, into an industry giant - mainstream America’s most familiar mutual fund family. He also pioneered such mutual fund practices as selling direct rather than through brokers, offering discount brokerage... View Details
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Edward C. Johnson II
Johnson took over management of the Fidelity Fund in 1946 and built a new company, Fidelity Management and Research. Johnson believed that funds should invest in common stocks that were traded heavily. With this mutual fund philosophy as his foundation, he created a... View Details
Keywords: Finance