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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
were June 1959 graduates of the one-year Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA). They were (left to right) Roberta Moniz (later Lasley), Diana Greer, and Sara Beth Wilkinson. These three were the first women to be... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. In... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
study the three together—and to start from the point of view of business. “Instead of beginning with technology, we will start with use cases,” he explains. In this conversation, Lakhani introduces the goals and key components of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
returns were becoming more important than long-term sustainability.” A few months later, in April 2016, Gower made a move toward that sense of sustainability, literally. He and his wife, Sally, moved four hours away from the city life in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
approach, pointing out what’s working and how the team as a whole can fix what’s not working. Vera says Canales generously stayed and answered questions for 30 minutes. “It really was inspiring, and the questions were just flowing. It was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Chuck Porter and the type of work he wanted to do, I think this may have been an intentional and very smart strategy. Advertising campaigns for products with strong points of differentiation are much more fun and easier to develop in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
improved infrastructure for water and for jobs, notes Meyer. There is much at stake for Mbeki - only the second black president of South Africa - as he follows in the footsteps of Mandela. Meyer is careful to point out, however, that... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
successful, but we didn’t know to what degree. We knew that the utility would be universal and that the price point was right. That combination can mean a large market. At the same time, we worried that the product would need revisions in... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
someone else has run away with the whole market." Venkatesan points to Apple, which waited for better distribution systems in India before it established its presence. "But Samsung didn't wait, and has the whole market now." The book, he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
extensive involvement with a San Diego-based organization that develops aid programs for the poor in Mexico, and the establishment of a family foundation that gives grants in the areas of poverty, education, and religion. "There came a... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC), and the California Research Center (CRC). The gathering took place at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
“It’s making corporations question the boundaries of who and what they are accountable for in their communities.” Barrett presented guidelines for cross-sector partnerships to fight the epidemic at “HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and Asia,” one of View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the 1960s, he felt himself drawn toward nonprofit activities. Upon graduating from HBS, Lazarus took the advice of a classmate and joined the Peace Corps in Panama, where he worked to develop a business training and education program at a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
software company and build video games together.’” The Dreamfly’s mission is a return to a starting point for Mendhro, who was raised in rural Pakistan as the daughter of the village’s first physician, who founded the area’s first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
director at Summit Partners, says her connection to the contemporary art world began casually. The mother of four had taken a break from real estate development (Rouse & Associates, then AEW Capital Management) after the birth of her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
Age discrimination is a serious concern among executives who contemplate career moves after age 50. In one recent survey, nearly three out of four managers with an average age of 50 said they believed age would be a barrier in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
nomads, the students had assembled to perform a welcoming ceremony for Van Gerpen and other guests. Among the school’s four grades and seventy children were only a handful of girls, most of them very young. “For Class 3, behind a line of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details