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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
funds, because obviously, we need to be able to speak truth to power and, you know, we can't be encumbered by any certain allegiance to administrations or governments that might be imprisoning artists. White: And what do you, as the Voice... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
in the "Basic Law," Hong Kong's post-handover charter, the territory's global position is constitutionally mandated and remains a special administrative region. Professor Ezra Vogel, director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
"Shark Tank Air Date 11/15," read the subject line. "I thought, 'This can't be real,'" says Donna. She replied to confirm the message, assuming someone on the other end had made a mistake. After all, not everyone who makes it in front of America's most View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
industry segments that depend on the NFL." Surveying the league's 32 franchises, Grubman observes that each has arguably become a global brand in its own right."The size and complexity of the local franchise as a business has exploded in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
make a profit, and the latter are keeping the piece hidden in a warehouse rather than lending it to museums so that the public can enjoy the work—and keeping the artists’ profile on the rise. “You need someone who is going to support the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
live in and raise a family.” Thacker is on the board of the Hermann Park Conservancy, which oversees the 445-acre park at the heart of Houston. The park is home to the Houston Zoo, Houston Garden Center, Miller Outdoor Theatre, Houston Museum of Natural Science, and... View Details
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- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
Local Motors—which is led by Jay Rogers (MBA 2007)—posted to its co-creation community: build an urban public transportation system. It’s all part of the company’s unique design model: "Most of our vehicles are designed by people who... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
for Peanuts recounts how Lorenzo grew his empire from nothing and helped shape the airline industry as we know it. The son of Spanish immigrants, Lorenzo put himself through Columbia College by driving a Coca-Cola truck and then grew the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
of industry such as Andrew Carnegie. "They were interesting stories of integrity that stayed with me," he says. After graduating, Appling spent several years at McKinsey & Company, then took a job at Seimens. In 2006, he began at Bright... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
personal and professional qualifications. "There are significant risks to the company and candidates during a CEO search," adds Khurana. "For example, a candidate's loyalty and trust would immediately become suspect should his or her employer, investors, or the View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
at stake, such as honing the core concept and attracting a founding team, investors, press, and industry supporters. If you’re not really, really, really into your idea, no one else will be either.” —Eric Grosse (MBA 1995), serial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
equity, and real estate. KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success by Warren Liu (MBA ’81) (Wiley) Liu examines the major factors that catapulted KFC to the top of the Chinese restaurant- service industry in less than two decades. He... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
built, even as she and her brothers look ahead. With ambitious plans for the future—including a combined public tasting room and retail outlet set to open in 2020—the next generation is finding ways to put their own stamp on the... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the names associated with this surge... View Details