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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
TO CURRENT STUDENTS "While facts and knowledge are important, interpersonal skills, respect for others, and the ability to establish mutual trust are equally significant-and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
remember that equally hot industries have cooled with time. Once there were some two thousand companies manufacturing trucks and cars in America, Buffett said, but today "only three have finished the race."... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
tool to attract exceptional young leaders, particularly those from outside the United States," says James T. Millar (MBA '92), director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. "No other business school offers anything like it." The new... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
for the work to be done. What are the steps the School is taking to further racial justice–related scholarship that will benefit HBS students and course participants, and the world at large? We recently... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
What intrigued you about the pay-what-you-want (PWYW) model? It’s very unusual for a firm or a seller to completely relinquish pricing power to their customers. Typically consumers encounter a price, and then they decide whether or not... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
leader. This is Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995). There's a lot of terrible things in the world and a lot of pain. This is very true. But it's equally true that there's quite a lot of marvelous in the world. I'm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
other half will be split equally between general administrative work and being out in the field. We are a decentralized operation, with over eighty reservations and one hundred... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
for $19-billion. “Building a company with a great culture and doing it with integrity is something that I look back on with satisfaction,” says Murphy. While known for his business acumen, Murphy is equally... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
youngest person as well. That didn't sit well with her for several reasons. While equality was one of them, improving companies was another. So two years ago she started Trewstar, with one goal in mind: getting experienced View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
to try to keep the bad guys out completely,” says BrightPoint’s Bonaparte. “No one runs a perfect shop. Detection and response are equally important to prevention.” There are too many ways in, too many holes... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
and growth to build new organizations.” Equally life-changing were the guest lectures taught by the likes of Jeff Bezos, who, at the time, was merely the founder of an online used bookstore. “To have those... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
In the case of Mark Tatum, medicine's loss will surely be the business world's gain. Almost since the day he was born in a war-torn village in Vietnam, his Jamaican-born father and Vietnamese mother had dreamed of the day their firstborn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in... View Details
- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
underserved communities. “The resources provided through NCCP help level the playing field and help ensure more children have equal access to opportunities. There are too many children learning in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
"great" people is just the beginning; gaining their trust and commitment is equally important. "Without that support, we can't move the company forward," states Smith. That backing, he continues, is earned... View Details