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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta a little easier is... View Details
- 27 Dec 2019
- News
The Rise of Fertility Startups
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
embassies around the world. Even after agreeing to attempt a compromise, the talks would often stall; sometimes they threatened to cease. By 2002, the original process was in disarray, and a whole new structure with new negotiators was... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
shore of Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land that lies between Manhattan and Queens. Smith’s eyes are fixed on a patch of water demarcated by a series of white and orange Coast Guard buoys. Thirty feet below the surface, a trio of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish that, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 removed each year through various mitigation strategies,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Webb Chappell When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. Before coming to HBS, I sold them to my mother, who had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
escape routes for Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (MBA ’39) and Alabama Governor George Wallace during student protests and covert entry for police into student-occupied University Hall during antiwar protests in 1968. By contrast, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson &... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
to green cement and alternative proteins. In addition, partnering to scale next-gen decarbonization solutions through Decarbonization Partners, a fund partnership we have established with BlackRock. Enabling carbon-negative solutions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) Cofounder and CEO, Remento Concept: Remento helps families collect and preserve the stories of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
program he instituted in 1992. Bred to yield the most intense flavors possible, the pea-sized Grand Cru grapes, derived from French clones, are harvested from the vineyard's rocky hillsides, sorted on a vibrating culling table invented by... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of... View Details