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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
programming computers. One year I worked for a subsidiary of General Electric, specializing in the creation of a fourth-generation programming language. It helped pay for school, and I enjoyed the discipline. It also taught me early on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
graduation approaches. The MBA graduating class has also initiated Class Day activities on the day before graduation, an event that gives students a chance to share "the HBS experience" with family and friends who are invited to sample classes taught by HBS faculty and... View Details
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
On September 5, 2024, a plaque was unveiled in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, memorializing a mission led by James Holt Green (MBA 1935) on its 80th anniversary. As recalled in a 2019 Bulletin article, Green and his team of six Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
report spans the years leading up to and after the Civil War. The most frequently used of Baker Library’s historical records, the Dun collection offers researchers an unusually detailed snapshot of the socioeconomic factors affecting business at the time. (courtesy of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean’s Award
organizations are (from left) Andwele Lewis, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Jesse Souweine, City of Boston, Mayor’s Office; Katherine Cunningham, Teach For America; Stephanie Snitow, Phipps Houses; David Schlendorf, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Stacy... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949
founded Marvin Traub Associates, a diversified consulting firm specializing in retailing, brand, and real estate development focusing on international markets. His client base includes companies in 12 countries. Now in his mid-eighties,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
In his pathbreaking 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations, HBS professor Michael E. Porter emphasized the strategic importance of clusters, which he defined as "geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
cycles could leave on rural and postindustrial America. And having taught special education at a high school on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation reservation as part of Teach For America after finishing his undergraduate degree, he understood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
known as the Deep Web (unsearchable) and Dark Web (requiring special software to access)—to exchange tips and hacking tools. “Why are the bad guys so successful?” Bonaparte asked in an essay for the cybersecurity website Infosec Island... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
recently announced Klarman Hall convening center are key elements of an ambitious campus master planning effort—one driven by practical, strategic goals developed to support curriculum innovations. “One of the things that makes this a truly View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
calls and pounding the pavement with a pen, a legal pad, 3” x 5” cards, and what he describes as an “unlimited listening capacity” when questioning anyone—in this case, execs at the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Slate, Wired, and others—with View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Think Tank
A faculty team charged with designing the new yearlong FIELD course — short for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development — in the first year of the MBA Program has been meeting regularly since January. The walls and panels of the group’s View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Join in the Centennial
addition to these online offerings, more than fifty HBS clubs have scheduled special events through 2008 as part of the School’s Global Outreach Program. Below is the April lineup of club events and faculty speakers. The Centennial is a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2017
- News
Leading in the Community and the Boardroom
specializing in strategy, talent management, and leadership development. “I love learning about different sectors and industries, observing good leadership in action, and participating alongside an effective management team,” she says. “I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
won for specializing in small direct-current motors, a strategy that has garnered it 50 percent or higher world market share for several decades. Canon’s Lens Product Group was recognized for continuous technological innovation. Hoya... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
choose from a menu of more than 100 electives to pursue specialized knowledge. Before graduating, all must attend a new Synthesis Seminar to tie together what they have learned and to reflect on how they hope to achieve their goals. The... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“We want to serve the surrounding community in the most diverse way possible.” “Needless to say, an orchestra is not a factory. But thinking about fixed and variable costs and capacity utilization is incredibly important for what we do operationally. If I’m pitching... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
decided that the war had made it impossible to hold the annual Alumni Conference at the School. With the help of the Dean's Office, we instead published a special "Alumni Conference in Print" issue with material that would have been... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt