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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
my life had to be dedicated to emulating those people and giving back. I mentioned to you that my daughter Akilah, she attended Harvard Business School and my youngest daughter, Ariel, who also attended Princeton, that both View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
payment of $1,” Baer laughs. “It was probably the first and last single-figure contract in broadcast history.” After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, Baer parlayed the experience, contacts, and notoriety he View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Deep Purpose offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Africa was going to knock off 54 countries. So I decided right from the get go, I'm going to see all of them in one big trip. I figured, OK, I need about three weeks per country. And I think that should be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the company," Graham said. And two years later, when Meyer transferred ownership of the paper, his son-in-law received two-thirds and his daughter one-third of the shares. "My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
professor. We became friends for life and HBS gave me a chance to leave US State Department while in South Vietnam and join the class of 1972 in January 1971 while on a sabbatical. I never looked back and... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
rich Brazilians. That sprawling financial district outside Sender's window? It didn't exist 20 years ago. "This was a swamp," she says. "There was nothing." Now it's considered one of the city's "downtowns,"... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but test and learning results are promising. Here’s what happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen (Harvard Business School Press) Were it not for the years HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana spent In The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
theatrical film in many years. After reading every Christie book for which the film rights were available, they each wrote down their favorites and sealed them in an envelope. “We exchanged envelopes, and we both had put Crooked House at the top View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
the life trajectories of virtually everyone in that room. It was so special to be back in a classroom with other alums. It was like an instantaneous transport back in time to some View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Colombia — I found that people share similar goals: security, a good job, and a better life for their families. What they struggle with is how to get there. Helping these people requires focused assistance in the form View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
lose their lives in their quest to reach the world’s pinnacle. Inside the compact submersible, Vescovo was as comfortable as anyone on a long-haul flight in coach. But he knew that just 90 millimeters of titanium protected him from 12,000... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
five-year plan, and I can't analyze things with spreadsheets. I get bored." The same has held true for how Wyss has approached his career. Asked if he ever thought he would spend thirty years building a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
ends 73 years later in that same small town with celebration and a sense of closure. The ID bracelet recovered by GRAC at the crash site, and radio operator Richard Perzyk. READ MORE Morrell: In August 2015,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
essay he wrote three years ago but was reluctant to publish until now. “I really want them to talk about diversity and inclusion in medical schools not in respect to students, but faculty,” Amen said in an interview with the Boston Globe... View Details