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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible for them. In telling the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
A seasoned media executive, Sarah Harden (MBA 1999) was serving as interim CEO of the media company Hello Sunshine when she was brought up short by an early conversation with company founder Reese Witherspoon. “Reese told me that before she did Big Little Lies, she had... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Leigh Rawdon (foreground) with Tea Collection designers in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. The fanciful wood alebrije carvings inspired several pieces in the company’s fall collection. (Courtesy Leigh Rawdon) It didn’t take long for Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) to realize... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought, ‘Hurray, he won’t see a kitchen... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2016
- News
Driving Digital Expansion
Growing up in Borneo, Rohana Rozhan (AMP 171, 2006) was known by all the boys as “Rohana the Piranha,” a nickname that offers some sense of the 53-year-old’s fierce commitment as CEO of Astro Malaysia, a $1.4 billion company providing pay TV subscriptions to 67 percent... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its ability to challenge existing norms. And now she's transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund, a new model of funding for contemporary arts.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
In 2006, the entire region celebrated the opening of the Wild Center, a 54,000-square-foot, interactive museum experience. The center includes live wildlife exhibits, a movie theater, an art studio, a large system of trails, and View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
that what sets humans apart from animal or artificial intelligence is the empathy that stems from an awareness of the life cycle and of human mortality. Panelist Ray Kurzweil of Kurzweil Technologies declared that in the coming decades, "we will View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
mainstream, in a climate where fear and anger and frustration dominate the horizon.” Concluded Ross, “Negotiations are about what's achievable, not impossible. They are about identifying an objective that makes sense given the circumstances. Sometimes what makes sense... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public transportation in cities and smaller communities? Assistant... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town, one boy dreams of saving enough... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
The rise of the "second screen"—watching TV while also surfing on smartphones or tablets—would seem to be bad for advertisers, stealing precious eyeballs from their pitches. Not so, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit. In a recent... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Jennifer Lee Koss by Maureen Harmon For weeks in 2012, Jennifer Lee Koss (MBA 2008) and Kena Paranjape held early- morning meetings at La Bohème coffee shop in Toronto. The discussion centered on a possible business venture. The meeting spot made sense; it was near... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is thinking about The Show. That’s... View Details
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
Welcome to NBC
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
When Art Met Finance
Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons, and Dakis Joannou at the opening of the exhibition “Everything That’s Interesting Is New,” The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, 1996. (Photo via Artsy) Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons, and Dakis Joannou... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
As a student in Professor Nitin Nohria’s LEAD class, in the spring of 2001, Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) was particularly captivated by the idea of reflective leadership. “We talked a lot about the human aspects of business, and I was interested in what we could do as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that caused him to have disabilities... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Keeping It Real
MAGIC MAN: One day in 2018, Doug Duda (MBA 1985) was walking up Eighth Avenue. “A guy grabbed me from behind, which is never a welcome sensation in New York City,” he admits. “It was another guy with a white beard.” The man asked Duda to join Real Beard Santas of... View Details