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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“J.C. Penney is in a very tough spot. If you ask people today what it stands for, you don’t get a particularly compelling answer.” —HBS professor Rajiv Lal, commenting on the challenge facing retailing guru Ron Johnson (MBA 1984) as the company’s new CEO. (HBS Working... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
supermarket is scheduled for completion in December 2000, with the entire complex of housing, businesses, and recreation and service buildings now about 70 percent finished. Jones anticipates that he and others will identify additional... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
HBS on Squawk Box
CNBC’s morning business show broadcast live from the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center’s Stamps Reading Room on February 9, giving faculty and alumni an opportunity to air their views on investing and access to capital. Host Carl Quintanilla (right) and cohost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I definitely don’t think that virtual will ever cannibalize the real thing. I genuinely don’t see that happening. That’s some people’s fear. But I do think the benefit is that we are educating the consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A London Lodging Landmark
At London's storied Ritz Hotel, where Charlie Chaplin once tossed carnations out his window to adoring fans below and where Tallulah Bankhead drank champagne from her slipper, managing director Giles Shepard (14th PMD) is overseeing extensive renovations. Amid basic... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful performers and listeners, is rapidly climbing the charts. From... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- News
The CFO as a Game Player
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
clean water, and tourism, and recreation opportunities." According to Tercek, emphasizing the value of nature builds common ground with people who may not consider themselves to be environmentalists, ultimately resulting in more... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
passion she'd had since childhood: food. "We always sat together at the table for dinner," she says. In her adulthood, "I used cooking to recreate that warmth and connect with friends." Although "going to culinary... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
Smart Venues “There’s long been this tension between the experience of live sports in a venue versus the comfort of watching on TV at home. And broadcasts have improved dramatically. So now stadium-goers are increasingly expecting their experience at the game to be as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
@Soldiers Field
SHOW TIME SPOTLIGHT In March, the HBS community welcomed Icarus coproducer David Fialkow to the Chao Center for a conversation with Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Lecturer Henry McGee on the 2018 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature and the Olympic doping... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
A Harvard Study Spices Bollywood Romance 'The Lunchbox'
- 07 Mar 2014
- News
Ann Moore's Next Act
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of each new venture, investment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
Named by his MBA section “Most likely to end up in People magazine,” Jeffrey A. Baron did so with a twist. He made People not in the United States but in Brazil, where his second play, Mother’s Day, received widespread acclaim. Baron’s road from working-class New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
An expert on competition in telecommunications and new technologies, Patrick S. Moreton (MBA ’91) takes the long view. Despite congressional efforts to tighten controls over media ownership and the current public outcry against media consolidation, Moreton says, “In... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- News
Hostile Takeover - by Aliens?
- 08 Jun 2016
- News