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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
to continue making money and spending time with people who give you a buzz,” he says. “Ultimately, honoring somebody else means that your best understanding of their best interests has to be important to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
understand and respect the complexities inherent in the culture. Striking, too, were the gaps between myth and reality that emerged at a number of the forum's concurrent panel discussions. At HBS associate professor Debora L. Spar's... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
instance, in tiny poor villages in China that I was trying to write about poverty in China. And here it was in the US. April: Was there something that you came to understand about the lives of your friends in Yamhill that you hadn't... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
stuff. One of the things that I was seeing recently is tech used in interesting ways, where in, I think it was Las Vegas,where someone would approach a little monitor and it would take their temperature. And it would say they were okay... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
we look to the future, one thing is clear: We will need to draw continuing support from the communities in which we live and work. This means we must be particularly sensitive, caring, and understanding of the concerns of everyone around... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
brought in a new chief executive that increased operating profits by 80%, but it didn't matter because the interest was so big that it a bottom-line level, no matter what he did, it was never enough. By the time we got to late 1990... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
point is not whether public or private providers deliver the service but the efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness of that service,” says Jeremy Pelczer (AMP 162, 2002), president and CEO of American Water. “We agree that water is a human and social right and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 50 interviews in 10 countries to further Professor Raffaella Sadun's examination of how resilient businesses can effectively and safely restart as COVID-19 abates. “Thanks to the ingenuity and effort of the research centers, we were able to View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
the last five years, we’ve also become mindful that we need to understand better parts of the world that feel left behind by globalization. In 2018, I joined a group of faculty members on a trip to rural Mississippi. All of us had been to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
must learn the ins and outs of a specific client, sector, and geography. This involves understanding how decisions are made, the culture of the decision-makers, and the historical context of the topic. We learn to push boundaries and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
character of the student body. In course development and case-study coverage, "HBS has a strong commitment to international research and the internationalization of the curriculum," Japan-born Yoshino said. Asia, Yoshino explained, provides an View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
fact, in direct competition with each other. If a Bank One customer, for instance, were interested in online banking, she might visit BankOne.com and learn what services the bank provides. She could also, however, surf over to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
executive director to build the processes and systems to enable us to onboard and serve these organizations. Know any HBS alumni interested in jumping on board?!” What inspired the creation of PowerUP? MGA: “Austin’s profound impact on my... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
years—and an ineffective tax system that targets too narrow of a slice of the population at rates that are too high. “There are many interesting things in our past that are relevant for today’s discussion about which direction we want to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint