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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble
business ideas are viable. Some two dozen mentors and advisers volunteered time to help 125 students from across Harvard fine-tune their projects and pitches. By Sunday night, the field had narrowed from 32 pitches to 13 presenting teams.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
Achievement Award, in 1995. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, remembered Tata as a “a visionary business leader, a compassionate soul and an extraordinary human being. He provided stable leadership to one of India’s oldest and most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition of View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media industry to privatization of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
fortunate despite my injury," he reports of his experiences in Singapore, Egypt, Taiwan, France, Japan, and Italy. "I also found new meaning in my commitment to public service." At the end of his travels, Jefferson enrolled at Harvard's... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
recounts during an interview at his memorabilia-filled office at the Giants’ AT&T Park. No stranger to wacky publicity gimmicks, Finley eventually agreed to let the low-watt station broadcast games for the first few weeks of the season,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
advantage shrinks as a result. Fortunately, I don’t think that will happen. There’s been an increased emphasis on individual research projects built into the MBA curriculum, and that offers a healthy antidote to just reading printouts. —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
got to do a lot of stuff on that project and literally brought the print with me for my first trip to Sundance in 1997. That was a real aha moment, because I realized I had always wanted to affect the cultural conversation through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
American mobility, where local leaders shape initiatives without waiting for Congress to act, and ambitious companies partner with governments to tackle projects that serve the public good, create jobs, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
name inspired by the Roman philosopher’s civic-minded teachings—has grown into a successful company with offices in Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Washington, DC, offering big data and analytics services to hundreds of corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
Edited by April White Josh King(photo via LinkedIn) Josh King (photo via LinkedIn) “The first question you have to ask yourself is, ‘Do I have something original to say, something that hasn’t been said before?’ ” —Josh King (PGL 2, 1999), View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
had lots of experience with sales, but at that stage, many of the biotech companies didn’t even have a product. So as the industry evolved, Baxter alumni were disproportionately represented in top leadership positions. Almost a quarter of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many plans for the future, so many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
environment." A joint-degree candidate working on her MBA at HBS and her master's in public administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Ballou spent eight weeks in the West African nation, helping local communities rebuild their... View Details