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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Book by Its Cover
series to accommodate different preferences, the company employed a stable of writers, hundreds of whom today crank out 130 million books a year in 29 languages. A prominent backer of the fine arts, Heisey was named an Officer of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
special interest groups (SIGs) to accommodate its broad constituency. The North Shore Chapter, for example, caters to members who live outside the city proper, while the Chicago Society gathers for cultural or social events in and around... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
accommodate two required curriculum offerings per year and the exceptional demands the system put on faculty and MBA Program staff. Kester emphasized that despite the decision, the January cohort had brought many lasting benefits to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
With physical distancing, each classroom could safely accommodate 25 people, so students alternated between attending in-person and remotely. About half of all MBA classes—more than 2,500 sessions—took place in the hybrid classrooms.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
Space officially launched its 18-month-long in-person entrepreneurship program, and now each cohort can accommodate more than 20 enterprises across a range of services and products. Participants aged 18 to 45 who have been accepted into... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks,” says Iyer. “If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have space to sell so that it will be a for-profit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Condo Mania
STERNLICHT: Waiting for the dust to settle. John Vanbeekum A self-described “distressed-real-estate guy,” Barry Sternlicht (MBA ’86) has some vacant condos to move, and that’s a problem he’s glad to have. Consider the unfinished and unoccupied 47-story Paramount Bay... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
height to accommodate larger air groups. The ship also has mine-hunting capabilities, according to UPI. In a statement issued ahead of the christening, acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley said, "When the future USS Paul Ignatius joins the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
multipurpose foyer Pre-function reception space A flexible floor design to accommodate events of any size up to 1,000 guests LEED Gold or higher sustainability features Find HBS alumni at Baupost Group View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
accessible to new audiences, adapting company goals to accommodate consumer behavior. They outfitted a test truck and spread the word about its location via social media. The idea was enthusiastically embraced by customers and by Rita de... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
Depatie Art by Scott Laumann Founded in 1981, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants is America’s first (and largest) boutique hotel group. With its hosted evening wine hour (where you might play Wii or have your tarot cards read), whimsical style, pet-friendly policy, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
future relationships. B2B firms that make special accommodations for customers in need today could reap the benefits of long-term loyalty. As an example, wedding website theknot.com is providing financial assistance to vendors such as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
was so successful we had to establish it as a regular commercial bank to accommodate its growth. Today, BancoSol leads the Bolivian banking system in profitability and makes 40 percent of the system's loans; it has 76,000... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
deal with change, turmoil, the unexpected? All too often we have been surprised by our lack of foresight close to home. The traditional family structure has broadened to accommodate divorce, single parenthood, common-law partnerships, and... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
blocky, mid-20th-century towers that represent the toughest cases. In the decades after World War II, as air-conditioning and fluorescent lighting became standard, floor plates grew to proportions that would accommodate trading floors and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
the country, which would exchange students every few months, broadening the opportunities for hands-on, community-based learning. O'Neill and others at the school are at work refining its business and educational model to accommodate this... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in 1998, is co-director of Patagonia... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
experience.” — Dustin Hilt Director of HBS Live Programming The pandemic drove the accelerated completion of the two classrooms to accommodate the June start of a new online version of Executive Education’s Program for Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
reconfigured (as in the rendering below of Batten’s second floor) to accommodate large group discussions or small-team collaborations, with the professor presiding from the center of the oval classroom. Each hive is slightly different in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars, and blows clouds of smoke from... View Details