Death - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Weinzierl. AUGUST 6 In response to the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Ron DeShay (OPM 53, 2019), CEO and founder of World of Dreams Entertainment (WODE) Group, launched “A Better World Project.” The... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

the death of Yataro Iwasaki in 1885. The case supplements case 808-158, "Yataro Iwaski: Founding Mitsubishi (A)." Purchase this supplement: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809038 View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him... View Details

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

and the demand-induced death spiral, which is brought about by a shift in sales mix from labor intensive to technology intensive imaging services. In addition, this case offers an opportunity to develop the class discussion in multiple... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

his attempts, Reilly is drawn into a web of intrigue 12 years in the making, involving the current American president, a United States senator, a Chinese businessman, and the death of a young girl. How these seemingly unrelated elements... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

terrible example for everyone to follow. The argument of domestic security simply does not hold in the data. No terrorists on US soil came from the country on the ban list. And there are so many measures that are proven to significantly reduce violent View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

their grief. Members of the Class of 1993's Section B responded to news of the death of sectionmate Waleed Iskandar by asking for people to share their memories. "Waleed was a vibrant part of our section, and I'm comforted by the good... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

someone has to. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: As a helicopter pilot I flew over the remotest regions in the world, places that, in theory, were so very different from my home. Yet looking down from my harbinger of death where I was required to... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

revenue flow is even better because most businesses don’t go out of business—they grow out of business. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998) Cofounder, President, and CEO NOWaccount Network Stages of grief There was pain but also pride when I shut Eva & Paul Denim. It was like... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced in a state in the year after a mass shooting. Second, mass shootings account for a small portion of all gun View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of the world's most successful... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

he thinks it’s his ticket out of small-town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish, he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As rumors and accusations about her... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

ongoing Indian Wars, and the deaths of thousands of Indigenous people resulting from the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Top : City Bank (Worcester, Mass.), 2 dollars, 1853 . American Currency Collection. Baker Library Special Collections,... View Details

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

itself. Already the country registers 400,000 more deaths than births every year. Most of those deaths—about 80 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare—take place in hospitals, exerting tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

called Death Note. It's based off a Japanese manga, which is a Japanese comic book and was very successful. It had I think three or four live action movies off of that manga. And we just shot it in Vancouver. And it's going to come out on... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

Corps leaders in 1992 to report what had happened to her. But senior leaders, some of whom were her father’s friends, ultimately allowed Culver to stay on in a senior role at the organization until his death in 2005, when he was... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

far from the remote peninsula on Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu (MBA 1999) (DC Comics) In this installment of the Poison Ivy story, Dr. Pamela Isley, Poison Ivy’s real name, is now a... View Details

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