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- 10 Nov 2018
- News
The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner
it was a whole other ballgame.” Much of the article details Spector’s extensive workout routine, which includes a focus on balance and ankle strength. There are also some long runs, of course, as well as some swimming and upper body... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. What Is Management’s Role in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
company level, a strong foundation for regional cooperation and trade can be built in the Middle East. It promises to result in real progress towards a better political as well as economic future for the region. This article originally... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation (1995) and The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective (1995). Portions of this report were taken from an article by Ken Gewertz that appeared in the October 16... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
but higher than today’s 5 or 6 percent. He finds wisdom in a quarter-century-old article titled “The Answer Is Nine” by Stephen Steppe, who argued that returns on commercial real estate may dip during cycles but will always rebound to the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
Grant, Millicent is designed to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 billion marginalized and unbanked people to access financial services, according to a recent article in Forbes. Dyer moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee from Nigeria.... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
success and cultural expectations, Nitasha Tiku writes in “Family Trust Shows Silicon Valley’s Secret Obsessions,” a recent article in Wired. But the book offers much more, according to Tiku: Family Trust is most deft when the competing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Reducing Risk with Online... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
started talking about this five years ago and narrowed down on the summer of 2017 as being the best time [for a transition], best for GE and best for Jeff,” GE’s lead independent director Jack Brennan told the Boston Globe. The Globe View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
makes the US economy the envy of the world.” Nohria also defended the track record of business schools, which have been criticized for turning out too many graduates who go into the financial industry. “Despite populist criticisms,” he wrote, “finance remains an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
donors agreed they could be used for research. You have begun to get traction in your career, and have been a prominent coauthor on several articles in well-respected journals. When you read the news that your research is now illegal, you... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
especially when their employees are naturally proactive, according to a forthcoming article in the Academy of Management Journal by Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6494.html. Reversing the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
gleaming hardwood floors, carefully preserved architectural detail, and sunny, open spaces for student performances. In one area, toddlers crawl, play, or nap in tiny bunks. In another, students sit at tables and study quietly with their teacher. “I try to get out and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
usual domain. A couple of months earlier, in February 2014, Viana had read an article in the newspaper Le Parisien about Biscuiterie Jeannette, a company founded in Caen in 1850 and known across France for its madeleines—the shell-shaped... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” read posters and banners all around the Swiss resort, while Indian success stories such as Infosys Technologies were the talk of movers and shakers at swank soirees. The spotlight continued to shine on India well into the... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
arranged for them. "But when it all works," she says, "it's a pleasure to use our skills, honed with large clients, to help these folks who have such great immediate need." RETURN TO ARTICLE Through Thick and Thin A few years ago, Paige... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
offices. Burwick managed all of this, the article notes, while guiding the company through a transition from public entity to private ownership. Before joining Peet’s, Burwick worked at PepsiCo and as president of Weight Watchers North... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
Alfred Sloan for the GM president’s autobiography; and manuscript versions of his numerous articles and of influential books such as Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand (winner of the Pulitzer in 1978), and Scale and Scope. The Baker... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
changes could be made, Gilmartin concluded, the result might be “the most dramatic improvement in global public health in history.” The preceding is based on an article in HBS Working Knowledge. To read the full article, visit... View Details