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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2003. The experience of starting two inner-city schools fueled Kennealey’s interest in applying to HBS, where he has focused on developing skills in finance, strategy, and operations. “I realized that the fastest, most effective way to achieve my career goals was to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
students learn how to apply discipline to the inexact science of valuing private enterprises." Running and Growing the Small Company The dramatic beginnings of entrepreneurial businesses have been much... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
two-person long-distance ocean sailing. A former Pentagon analyst, energy consultant, and high-school teacher with a master’s degree in interdisciplinary science from MIT, he has turned this and other extended ocean voyages into classroom... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
direction is largely determined by the needs of its scientists and by the direction of the life sciences themselves. "Management's role therefore tends to be more of a resource provider," he says. Even so, Pratt adds that Whitehead's... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
This past November, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association held its 14th annual conference at the Charles Hotel in Boston, with more than 300 alumni coming to connect and hear from industry leaders. We asked HBSHAA president Tom Robinson (MBA 1989), managing partner of... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
afterwards, you felt this pull to do more than build successful companies. How did that impact your career in the near-term and in the long-term? Kortenhorst: In the near-term, after my stint in Bulgaria, I spent a number of years helping run a private equity-backed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
to spend time indoors. The other is prison.) ... Here’s a weird but helpful way to think about all of this indoor time, courtesy of Rich Corsi, dean of engineering and computer science at Portland State University, an outstanding building... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and Applied View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New York University 1980 Earns MBA, Baker Scholar 1980 Joins Boston... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative HBS-China initiatives. “There was a two-lane road between the airport and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg