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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
first time I got it under way I was out for a week. Coming back, I crashed it into a buoy. It took me about 11 years to recover from that, professionally.” Moving up: “If after 21 years the Navy had said to me, ‘You’ve commanded three... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
of ensuring the timely availability and accessibility of life-saving medicine for those whom everyone else has forgotten therefore falls upon us and our short list of allies.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
for readers? I hope readers will say to themselves, “Oh my gosh, I can predict whether this product is going to be successful in the market. It actually is not a crapshoot.” And if the theory helps you predict with much more clarity that... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
worked for Duke Energy as assistant to the company’s CEO after graduation, but in 2013 he and McCready reunited and cofounded Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
in and fix them for us. “When gWorks started, it was just in three states—Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. In the last 4 and 1/2 years, we've grown to be in 32 states with our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
beer company Corona) and Grupo Televisa. Aramburuzabala told of inheriting her position at Grupo Modelo from her father, who died in 1995. Although a certified public accountant, she had no work experience at the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
$18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the company’s real impact. These kinds of savings to customers far exceed the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
small mom-and-pop operations, who often feel economic pressure themselves in rapidly gentrifying communities as taxes and other costs rise. Only 2 percent are owned by large institutional investors, View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
world. The numbers tell the story: There are approximately 1.2 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and more than 250 million—roughly one in six—are in the US. Each of them spends more time than their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
University of California. The $5,000 cost was beyond her family’s means, but Thompson-Woode’s mother decided she would ask the community to invest in her daughter’s dream. “The city raised the money,” Thompson-Woode says. “People wanted... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
an effort to make an MBA more accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, HBS announced last year that it would cover the total cost of tuition and fees—approximately $150,000 over the course... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Once they placed their order, customers had to wait ten years to receive it. Finally, Bajaj, whose grandfather had been known as the "fifth son" of Mahatma Gandhi and whose parents and grandparents had spent... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
for livestock and wildlife will grow. And grow. And grow. A more recent discovery is that elephant grass can feed power plants as well as animals. Cut, dried, View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond,... View Details