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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
large book on the life and work of the late Stanley Meltzoff, a noted U.S. commercial artist, has nearly 190 color plates showing works ranging from illustrations for the Armed Forces’ Stars and Stripes and his covers for Field & Stream,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
has emerged. Flush, shower, rinse, swallow — fumbling through their first waking moments, most Americans are probably too groggy to see competitive advantage in their early morning routine. But there it is: All the H2O they need — cheap,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
featuring Donald S. Beyer, U.S. Congressman from Virginia and Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force; Anne Kelly, (Harvard Kennedy School, 1996) VP of Government Relations, Ceres; Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006),... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
summer employment to take a road trip across America. Captivated by the country, he decided to stay on after graduation; in 1961, he became a U.S. citizen. Dunphy was recruited by Westinghouse Electric and worked in various marketing and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
companies do business in China to stay competitive in a global economy. He has been Class Secretary for the Class of 1977 since 1981. Twenty-five years ago, members of the Class of 1977 departed with confidence from the safe haven of the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Clinkscales (MBA 1990), chairman and CEO of Vanguarde Media, Inc., and chairman of Vanguarde Neomedia, Inc., and Harold E. Ford, Jr., U.S. Congressman from the 9th District of Tennessee. The day also featured an “Entrepreneurial Ventures... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
1987), have made it possible for HBS faculty to do research, conduct surveys, hold forums around the country, and publish their ideas and insights, all as part of the multiyear U.S. Competitiveness Project... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
history of women in business to give her audience some perspective on the transformational effects of economic independence. Among the first places U.S. women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts, she noted. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
supporting private-sector research; another $2 billion was earmarked for R&D that the government wanted scientists and engineers to pursue to help local enterprises improve their technology and become more competitive internationally. But... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
Economy, A Global Perspective," HBS professor Michael E. Porter observed that, contrary to classic theory, "in developing countries, getting capital these days is not the problem; it's organizing society so that competition rules." Esther... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years” in a Financial Times poll of 4,000 executives. He recently spoke about the public policy and business challenges ahead. U.S. consumers complain loudly that prescription drugs cost too much. What’s your response? We have a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
The following article is the sixth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Why was Southwest Airlines the only U.S. airline to realize a profit in 1992? What has made crime in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
News. And as soon as he graduated in 1953, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became an officer. Fast forward to 1959. Just out of Harvard Business School, Donaldson, 28, was rooming with Dan Lufkin (MBA ’57) in New York and working in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
instruments and implants have revolutionized the way surgeons treat the traumas that can afflict the human skeleton. While successfully navigating the complexities of this highly competitive industry, Wyss, a lifelong hiker, has... View Details