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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
movements of history, sees an oncoming dark age that will last 30,000 years. To shorten that dark age, he will create a foundation and collect the knowledge of the empire. In Ender’s Game, besieged by aliens it can’t communicate with, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
extraordinary vision, dedication, and impact. His untimely death at age 62 last winter makes the story even more compelling. Rosemary Sullivan’s The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the spell-binding story of the small... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
United Arab Emirates, it can be more like 99.9 percent indoors for some people.) To put this 90 percent figure in perspective, it’s useful to think of what it means in terms of our own lives. By the time we hit 40, most of us have spent 36 years indoors. Try it for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Pease (MBA 1967) (Deucalion) Following on Pease’s 2009 compendium, The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement, this book explores the “why” behind the “what” of Jewish achievement. Pease evaluates the major theories offered to explain the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard Stadium. Rob Sundy describes himself at View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
1953, and he completed his degree in forestry in 1957. At age 23, he and Natty — who had made it clear that she had no intention of spending her life in the Canadian north woods as the wife of a lumberjack — came to Cambridge in pursuit... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical models to accurately predict large-scale movements of history, sees an oncoming dark age that will last 30,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
explains. "The reason I often choose young protagonists is because that's the age when we make our first major choices and begin to discover the connections that reach far beyond our own lives." Barron and his family live in Boulder,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
interest on a regular basis. Continuing Education for Alumni Many graduates have asked for continuing education programs that are tailored to specific age groups and professional situations. This committee has made significant progress in... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Kensington... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company Abercrombie & Kent in 1962. By View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
ages of 10 and 60. You can get a lot of knowledge, but not your IQ. Your emotional intelligence is a learned skill. You learn those through life experience. You learn it through bumping up against the world and seeing what works and what... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
being treated properly. Not being able to properly transport and treat waste has a wide scale impact. Forty-eight percent of all children under the age of five are undernourished because of bad sanitation. What’s more, India spends 15... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of prosperity and cosmopolitan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
all ages were convincingly behind Gates, albeit sometimes grudgingly ("I pick Bill Gates, not necessarily from a moral character or leadership standpoint, but from an 'influential' product penetration standpoint"). More typical were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
brand awareness—and in the meantime, it can sell tickets in Austrian and German movie theaters and downloads on iTunes. The search for the real deal is cited as one of the factors driving the startling results of a Variety survey last year that asked 1,500 Americans... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
friend. Masha had just graduated from HBS and was working at a medical-device company in Massachusetts. Okoloko's call came at the right time. Professionally, Masha was eager to join a start-up; personally, he'd resolved to move closer to his View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe has a similar problem, with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details