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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
multiplying its impact on management education, explained Nohria. Last year for the first time, over half of the new cases were about companies outside the United States. “These cases are being used not just here at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
management for a couple of years. I loved P&G, but I don’t have a lot of respect for authority, and I don’t like answering to people. So I applied to HBS. Why HBS? I always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and I wanted to learn about business at the best View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the ultimate result being a $40 million deficit. The district had already been placed on financial watch, with the very real possibility of a state takeover looming. Cognetti had been reading about the school district’s woes in the local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim Mustapha's farm tripled its annual... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Had no idea where I was. It's one of the few times I've ever truly been lost. Again, no GPS, intentionally. And four or five hours later, I got to a place to stay that night, close to midnight. But that's a classic example of why I go... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
State Constitution; the remaining 55 percent is privately owned but with usage regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency. “It’s taken up much of my life for the last 18 years, and it’s one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever done,”... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
raccoon and then get the raccoon up a tree. Humans who participate wear waders and hip boots, because it is often swampy, and use coal miners' hats with lights, because the event takes place at 11 p.m. There are also timed agility events... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
resources to have a serious impact anywhere. I was no longer thinking only about how what I learned could be applied in Spain.” Over his last decade as the head of Competitiveness.com, Duch found himself drawn more often to projects in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
particular, the diversity of the population CWE serves: About half of last year’s sixteen hundred clients were low-income individuals. The variety of the programs and services offered by CWE reflects the diversity of its clients. Those at... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
upset me.” Machine dream: “There were companies that displayed different rates and prices. But none of them ever considered why people would want all that information on one screen, with it placed in charts and graphs that allowed users... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Just Do It — Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) Hold Your Tongue — Dick MacKinnon (MBA 1962) Find Your Place — Rusty McClure (MBA 1975) Be Prepared — Peter Kiernan (MBA 1965) Know Your Market — Steve Frenkiel (MBA 2007) Ask the Right Questions —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
the 1950s in then rural Holladay, Utah. With a brother six years older and a sister six years his junior, young Howard often had to amuse himself. Holladay was a great place for a boy to go hunting jackrabbits and ramble through the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
working with the City of San Francisco in the last five years, across eight consulting engagements and several brainstorming sessions. Alumni love working with the city. It’s our most popular client.” According to Juan Carlos Velten (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the third of five children. The family placed a heavy emphasis on the value of good, honest labor; at 18, he became a firefighter to help pay his university expenses. The occupying workers also came from large families, and many had... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
DC office into Waze. She finds a parking garage on 19th Street and then, out on the sidewalk, double-checks the address. She knows she’s in the right place when she finds Hugh Donnelly in the lobby. The director of facilities is visiting... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
team, not just a top-down vision.” What was your favorite campus spot when you were a student? “The indoor track on the second floor of Shad will always have a special place in my heart for the hours I spent there with my workout buddies,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
Equinox with a spirit of celebration and hope,” David says. “Our former classmates made sure the event was fun.” They also ensured it was profitable. The Linns hoped to raise $10,000. Instead, they raised nearly $250,000. Unfortunately, the celebration didn’t View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in... View Details