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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Lose the Marbles! Better Aging Through Neuroscience By James Lyon (MBA 1975) Independently Published According to the World Health Organization, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years old will almost double from... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
the Wall Street Journal. Steve Jobs said that VisiCalc “propelled the Apple II to the success it achieved more than any other single event.” It also was the force behind the later success of Microsoft in business computing. But VisiCalc’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a pilot, streaming... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
military matériel at factories in upstate New York. World War II carried MacDonald to India in 1943, and then to Burma, Ceylon, and China as an OSS ordnance officer. To pass... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
LIBRARY In the years after World War II, the Management Training Program emerged, with a broader curriculum that encompassed organizational and administrative training. Fieldwork was also an integral aspect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
Europe during World War II. At the end of the war, he returned to Dayton and a job as a sportswriter at the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped humorist Erma Bombeck get her start at the paper. He earned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep
World War II to today and reveals the broad and deep entrepreneurial ethos that has permeated many required and elective courses at the School. Cruikshank also recounts how... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
of the Boston area who graduated from West Point in 1943, McDermott became a fighter-bomber pilot in World War II. He then served on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff before being sent to HBS to learn the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
trait. Although he didn’t arrive in the United States until age 10, Ted Levitt didn’t look back, rarely discussing what must have been a difficult childhood for a Jewish boy during Hitler’s ascendancy. After serving in World View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
donated the entire cost of building the campus in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the “Two Hundred Fifty Associates” funded research and case-writing activities threatened by the Great Depression. Post-World War II... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Marty also developed excellent cases and created superb interpretive weekly student assignment memos — a technique I adopted and still employ.” A Missouri native, Marshall was in college when World War View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
- a process that began in the years following World War II - by limiting the increase in the size of the faculty so as to sustain the quality and unique character of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
each problem, and their corrective actions were reviewed personally by the secretary of defense. Second, to ensure that crucial items arrived when they were needed, we put together a rapid-resupply system called the Red Ball Express—a name inherited from the famed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
as $180. A blue-ribbon ship such as the Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth will cost at least $197 for tourist and a minimum of $395 for first-class, according to current published rates. The gains that the airlines have made since they began extensive long-range overseas... View Details