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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
solution was the IBM System/360, one of the great new product introductions in business history. When IBM began to decline in the late 1980s, a decade and a half after Tom Jr. had left the company, many people thought its chances for... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
United States. They call the effort "Project Bison." If everything goes according to plan, several of Hobbes' successors will be in place in Wyoming by late 2023. By 2030—that's just seven years from now—Project Bison will be at full... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Women in Business Support, courage, and inspiration were the watchwords at the “Dynamic Women in Business” conference, held at HBS in late January. With a packed house of more than nine hundred participants, the event offered a day of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
continued, and environmental groups led a global boycott of paper producers that worked with local logging companies. In the late 1990s, negotiations began between the logging companies and the environmental groups; the tentative... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
stages. In the second-year MBA elective Building Business in the Context of a Life, she works with women (and men) in their late 20s "for whom the 'future' is their first job." The course challenges students to look further ahead and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was fighting meta-static colon cancer. "My dad looked at me and said, 'Why don't you think about doing that?' I have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only audiences in late September as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
baby sector, fashion, bath supplies, furniture, office supplies—that's all starting or started a couple years ago," he says. "In the States, if you want to be really successful, you have to create something like Snapchat. In Brazil, you just sell shirts and you can be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Massachusetts He’s still an early riser who hits the hay late at night. But the events that make up Warren Adams’s day are a little different than they were in years past. Instead of waking at 5 a.m. to go to work, he heads to the shore... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
spent 2019, expanding and advancing its development pipeline. Moderna had five additional vaccines in Phase 1 testing and two more in preclinical development. It was a portfolio that looked promising to investors. In late 2018, the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
contrast to the government-funded space race of the 20th century, the extent to which the ocean has been explored has been—like so much exploration in the 19th century—driven by the scientific and historical curiosities of individuals. The View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
most importantly, a platform is something you can build on. Cummings developed the Orchestra Place project, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous other performances spaces and educational programs. It is nicknamed “The Max” in honor of his View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and Section Bingo based on commonly used words and nonwords such as “incentivize”), the funniest day for our section had to be when we had “come as your opposite sectionmate” day. For our first class in the morning one day late in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
determined quest. Auth will transport you in his spiritual time machine from Egypt’s Old Kingdom, through Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe; from the age of the Renaissance, through the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment; and from the rise of atheism in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
reported great memories of Dean McArthur to my wife and my kids. I will never forget my favorite Dean John. —Paolo Amato (MBA 1994) My most memorable encounter with Dean McArthur occurred during the late spring of my second year in the... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
courtesy of Numenta) Indeed, much of the energy on this late August day at Numenta is centered on this new framework, which will be presented in a paper and keynote speech the team is preparing for the annual summit of the Human Brain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
When the fate of the Dean’s House — built in the late 1920s at the insistence of George F. Baker, who had given the funds to build the campus — came on the table, McArthur solemnly told his University superiors that the building was... View Details