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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Last Look
Was he an HBS student, or was he an assistant helping the photographer carry her bags? The metal case was for the camera equipment, and the canvas bag was for the film, etc. Photographers needed to carry a... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
first several years post-HBS to make some riskier decisions.” After graduation and a year working at Boston Consulting Group, Sergio pursued her entrepreneurial interests as COO of a fitness-related startup. She later joined Amsted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial View Details
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
1966): I'd never met anyone like Jimmy before. He was the son of a coal miner and was a scholarship student his whole life—at George Heriot's School, where he learned rugby; at the University of Edinburgh;... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
environmental management, industrial policy, minerals management, and venture capital. A Trip Worth Taking In addition to the academic content of the conference, delegates were invited to a Cape Malay street... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
domestic flights and added service to seventy international destinations in the last fifteen months. Whitehurst said that the company’s future growth will center on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Every HBS class has its “war stories.” In recent decades, they’ve been about takeover battles on Wall Street or crashing and burning in Silicon Valley. For the MBA Class of 1949, however, the “war stories” unfolded in places like Iwo... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
the disk’s metal clip and yanked open the tough plastic outer casing, Enriquez now removes from its inner sanctum a flimsy black vinyl circle. “This is the part that matters,” he declares, waving it... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
decisive, enduring advantages, therefore, become unique local centers of innovation for the likes of mutual funds, venture capital, and biotechnology in Greater Boston or aircraft equipment and design, boat-... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
chromium, a toxic heavy metal that is linked to respiratory cancer, asthma, skin irritation, and liver and kidney damage. This is not protecting us. View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
school and worked for about half a decade and then left to look for a smaller firm to buy. Tell Rick and me about your career and what made you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
thought they’d be sort of fun to test out. Food Dev Guest 1: How does it work? Julia: I have to say it’s a little like drinking through a twig and it’s very tiny. I might feel a little silly using this. I think I’ll just bring my View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
monastery got under way. After four years of negotiations, the two parties reached an agreement in which the bells would be returned to Russia and replaced by a new set. But the church couldn’t finance the project alone. That’s when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
writes, “is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the pedal to the metal and dig the rut deeper.” In Revival of the Fittest, he offers managers the tools and frameworks they need... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
trade, of what we do in the West to these countries—if we are extracting trillions of dollars in minerals from Congo and giving back a few million or even a billion in aid over time, then you have to really... View Details