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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
the nearby Spangler Center, a small green tent on the grounds of the School took on symbolic importance for students and other members of the HBS community last February. The two-person tent was pitched by the HBS Armed Forces Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
has become the living, vibrant symbol of the firm.... It is global, without a doubt.” — HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser on the 40th anniversary of Nike’s logo. (Oregonian, June 15, 2011) “While Americans are bad at football (or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
building will serve as a hub for Executive Education participants, allowing them to meet with one another, as well as faculty, guests, and students from the School's MBA and Doctoral Programs. "The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center is a symbol... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes UTC’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
Moments after the New England Patriots upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams 20-17 in Super Bowl XXXVI, Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA '65) thanked the team's fans "for helping us bring this championship home" and observed that "our team View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It’s no wonder that advertisers... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
“The Flatiron School is named after the Flatiron Building. It was the first skyscraper in New York City, and, for a long time, a symbol for technology transforming the landscape of a city. We hope to use technology to transform the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
bathroom is next to your kitchen, which is very bad luck, you can hang a crystal between the two. You can also place symbolic objects in precise locations to counteract certain effects. How did you become interested in this? Before I came... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
reflects on all my colleagues at the Business School," said Merton, "particularly so because the University Professorships symbolize the belief that teaching and research need not be confined within departmental or disciplinary... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
found that in Asia, the prevalent organizational culture varies among countries. "While we had previously seen that Japanese firms, for instance, typified the clan-like culture symbolized in the Monkey," remarks Deshpandé, "we found that... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
Social Venture Partners International; and, closer to home, from Jan Owen, a well-known Australian social entrepreneur who joined SVA just after it was formed. “The experiences and content those people shared with me was invaluable. In particular, Jan’s presence as a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
aspirations. We serve as psychotherapists to neighborhoods.” Favorite LA building: Los Angeles City Hall. “In a city that is so diverse and dispersed, it’s the symbol of common ground that draws us together and gives tangible expression... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
try, how can you hope to succeed? Provide closure. This idea is ripped straight from McGrath’s excellent 2011 Harvard Business Review article “Failing by Design”: “Have a symbolic event—a wake, a play, a memorial—to give people closure.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
afar, we had a vision of a simpler life. The village, set up so that outsiders would concentrate their disruptive inquiries to one area, seemed to be a symbol of their having sold out to commercialism. After the adolescent members of the... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
particularly interested in branding, luxury marketing, symbolic consumption, consumer self-control, and fairness and ethics in marketing. A member of the faculty since 2007, she currently teaches the second-year MBA course Luxury... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
regions. National and community service is more than a program. It is a mindset and a way to shift the culture. While sporadic service days are more symbolic than sustainable, they still pay tribute to values and call on people's better... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education and awareness—among both women... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
will climb Mt. Fuji along with medical, research, and public-policy personnel in a venture sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. The climb has been organized to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research and to serve as a vivid View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
recently been the headquarters of a drug dealer known as “Tarzan.” It was a symbolic gesture, Rodríguez Larreta acknowledges, but an important one. “Our biggest obstacle was the lack of credibility. For years, [residents] have had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
across the river and around the world than CIA, to symbolizing much that the younger generation and people everywhere aspire to. Not to say my classmates and I have had a whole lot to do with ending the Cold War, or the near universal... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)