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- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
Compaq.” While KPCB’s investments today have grown larger, the basic principle is unchanged. “We are a service organization. We aid entrepreneurs in building new businesses or even whole new industries,” says Doerr, who helped shape many... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
instances where their home culture differs greatly from that of the United States. In her orientation discussions with newly arrived international students, Maureen Walker, associate director of Academic Services, invites them to talk... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
other products.” Like for instance, delivering e-commerce packages or being cash-in/cash-out points for financial services in a market with high underbanked rates. And so totally reinvented the model, learning in some ways from what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
were Robert Ryan (MBA '70) and Paula Banks (154th AMP) for professional achievement, the Reverend Jonathan Weaver (MBA '75) for civic commitment, and Lillian Lincoln (MBA '69) for service to the community. Presented jointly by the AASU... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy intensity. This is why View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
around you, and improving leadership skills. Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples, from the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster to Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, Professor Bazerman diagnoses what information went ignored in these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
and continuing to improve the quality of service provided. “We have a tremendously successful organization with a legacy of winning. The challenge is to continue to evolve and adapt to the new realities of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
in Iraq. Local Motors currently has three working microfactories, with plans to build a network of 50. But the pressures of military service weighed on him. He loved the Marines, but he missed his wife and three-year-old son. Two of his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
teachers. Results of the campaign were felt quickly. For example, the mentoring program resulted in an improvement of new teacher retention rates from 73 percent in 2002 to 95 percent in 2003. The principal training program required that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office of a credit card... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
look at the Career Services and Alumni Web sites. Panel Discussions The two-day conference also consisted of twelve panel discussions, each moderated by an HBS faculty member. Panelists included three South African Cabinet ministers,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
broad view of business as business.” As a result, Donham in the early 1930s renewed and elaborated his previous calls for business schools to aid in transforming management into a profession — not a mere technical specialization or guild, but rather a group... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
safari theme. We wanted to go to a much more contemporary canvas against which to place the product. Communication was the last piece, which was about advertising and training the sales associates to improve communication with our... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
resides with his wife, Jane, and their two sons in Mazda’s home city of Hiroshima, four hours south of Tokyo by bullet train. Says Fields:“Mazda has deep roots in Hiroshima. Generations of local people have given our company a truly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
force a black man who has walked comfortably in the black and white communities to realize he is not free in either place and needs to work for a level of interracial justice in which all of us can be true to our roots and feel at home... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) At the end of most days, Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) feels like he hasn’t done enough. As executive director of East Boston Social Centers (EBSC), a century-old grassroots organization that provides... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young