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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
extensively on the loyal support of many European HBS alumni, most of whom he had taught. Arnaud de Vitry (MBA ’53) headed up the operations. I had the pleasure of being a member of the team for seven years starting in 1970. They were... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
engaged campus community. Beyond the campus, the program’s impact is evident in a revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
(9:30 EST) to trade over-the-counter options and convertible bonds until I had to go to class at 9:00. But it wasn't until I was contemplating the topic of my Ph.D. thesis that I started thinking about switching from applied math to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
don’t know what the answer is. They have to act, not plan their way forward. Hill began to despair of finding an answer to her problem until a chance meeting with Pixar executive Greg Brandeau in the lobby of a biotech firm—Hill was there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
classes, and rank among the best-selling cases of all time. To try to understand why these cases are so successful, we spoke with the professors who originally wrote them (including James Heskett, at left), and with those who still teach them. In so doing, we sprang a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
innovations may have been -- whether it was Ray Kroc's refinement of franchise economics or Henry Ford's perfection of assembly line production -- every organization faced the key business problem of determining where to place the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big industrial revolutions View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,” says Brown. “Its drawbacks are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
in our country and wanted to leverage our abilities to work towards solutions. What started as purely grassroots networking with peers has led to thousands of followers on Instagram, over 175 people committing to be poll workers, many... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
anticipation of international students' needs as they enter HBS. The School offers a comprehensive array of services for internationals, from help with class participation and exam preparation skills, to support and advisory services related to adjustment View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
playing all manner of sports, Foster says the fog began to roll in when he started college. He went through cycles of denial, struggling to make peace with his situation. Eventually though, he began to ask the question of "why me" very... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
school and college? And where are you starting to see the idea get traction? Falik: It starts with the language we use. The metaphor of a gap year is exactly the wrong one—this idea that you’re sending your... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrate on developmental capital and buyouts. If that worked, we could turn our attention to brand-new ventures later on, which we did." "We started out as generalists," says Waite. "All through the '60s and '70s, there wasn't a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to the game, View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig