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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
Waltham, Massachusetts, suggests two main reasons why so few new antibiotics are in the pipeline. First, antibiotics are used for relatively short courses and, as a result, aren’t as profitable as chronic-care medicines. Second, in the... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
Merchant When Ken Merchant arrived to begin teaching at HBS in 1978, he knew there was no other place he wanted to be. “At the time, HBS was the Mecca for the subject area about which I wanted to do research — management control systems,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Casey Gerald’s story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year’s Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather’s black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
expanding pool of leaders has been captured in an ever-broadening and deepening body of HBS case materials. The study of leadership, like everything else at HBS, begins with the case method. In the pages that follow, five alumni, whose... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
A Conversation with Nancy Koehn Koehn Photo Courtesy Nancy Koehn Editor’s Note: The Story of American Business itself has a back story. Explains Jacqueline Murphy of Harvard Business Press: “About five years ago, after we held discussions with the View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni in Japan Launch Virtual Series on Business and Sustainability The HBS Club of Japan (HBSCJ) launched a new and comprehensive virtual speaker series... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
marketers can understand human behavior on a much deeper level and begin to use that knowledge to their advantage. Zaltman argues that marketers need to embrace a new paradigm that connects mind, body,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
who has long been known for the Zenlike cool that comes over him in tense dealmaking negotiations when others begin to sweat. His reputation as a brilliant, aggressive takeover strategist made Wasserstein Perella a key player in most of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
broken. Wages don’t move with productivity, and they haven’t in any sustained way for decades.” While these new labor movements are promising, Silvers says the adjustment in wages paid to fast-food workers and Walmart employees are too... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ); undersecretary of state in Henry Kissinger’s State Department; founding dean of the Yale School of Management; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; chairman, president, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
engineers to tweak preexisting medical instruments or develop entirely new medical devices. The general deep brain stimulation procedure is now established practice: For over a decade, neurosurgeons have placed electrodes in the brains of... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA Program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty View Details