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- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
not shied from the political stage. Its leaders have appeared on numerous policy panels and have written op-eds. They have been invited to a White House summit event on the future of labor. And Marcela Sapone, the company’s chief... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
prints, and objects. In 1980, the Morses presented their collection to the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, their retirement residence, which opened the Salvador Dalí Museum to house and exhibit the work. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
top two floors house 10 unique classroom spaces dubbed “hives,” and the first floor is home to the new Harvard Innovation Lab. (see page 42) Unlike Aldrich Hall’s amphitheater-style classrooms with fixed seating, the oval-shaped hives... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private sector, nonprofits, and academia... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Why don’t they have cassettes with books on them? We have to have that.” —Anthony Schulte (MBA 1953), former Random House executive, quoted in his obituary. (New York Times, June 25, 2012) View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
The Results Are (Mostly) In
battleground Senate race. US House of Representatives A former marine who served four tours in Iraq, Seth Moulton (MBA 2011) won his bid for re-election to the Massachusetts Sixth Congressional District, a seat he has held since 2014.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
Above: Founder Jon Staff at a Getaway tiny house in the Catskills, New York (photo by HollenderX2) Growing up five hours north of Minneapolis, Jon Staff (MBA 2016) was never far from woods, lakes, and a sense of escape. That peace became... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- News
At Home with History
kept six, all of which are already owned or will eventually be owned by the CAHPT and open to the public. The houses Jenrette worked to preserve for future generations to visit are “part of our heritage,” he said. “Each one could be a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
dating from 1840 to 1895, housed in Baker Library’s Historical Collections. Probably not the first thing you’d pick up for beach reading. Yet once the eyes adjust, a lost world opens up. Much like ours, it’s driven by human strivings... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
opportunity came knocking four years later when college fraternity brother William F. (“Rick”) Cronk (AMP 92, 1983), with whom he shared the daily commute, invited Rogers to join him as a partner in a restaurant venture. Rogers hesitated but eventually left McKinsey to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
developed the kind of confidence — and a sort of visceral sense for the right way to do things — that I do today.” Do Work with Impact It really doesn’t seem to be about the money. I heard about and met many successful entrepreneurs who lived for years in the same... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
primary school readers develop learning concepts and reading skills, and offers books in many languages, including Arabic, English, Hindi, and Spanish. They also built a diverse domestic advisory board that includes, among others, Sandra Cisneros, author of The View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
RK: Truly. I mean, I used to take the baby with me all the time on the road looking at businesses. It was often an icebreaker and chatting with business owners, you know, it was just what I did because I used to drive around industrial parks within 30 minutes of my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
Winners With everyone else in the house asleep, Tracy spent all night online. She found pictures of children with muscular dystrophy employing something called the Gowers' sign to get off the floor, using their hands to push themselves... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
David's first challenges, outlined in detail in the Bulletin, was the overcrowded campus. With four Army and Navy training programs at Soldiers Field in addition to the MBA Program, more than thirteen hundred students were living in dormitories originally designed to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conference in December 2008, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told several hundred prominent board members that he couldn’t conceive of how they might do their jobs successfully:... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
expert on student housing. None of that would have happened if I had not been fired in 1976. Jim Arbury (MBA 1966) VP for Student Housing National Multifamily Housing Council Growing out of business After a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an elderly couple offering their View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details