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- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500 corporations, and now HBS. Music... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
rural, off-grid Philippine villages. The well-publicized “Ride for Light” was intended to call the country’s attention to the need for safe, sustainable power alternatives to the widespread reliance on kerosene, wood, and batteries, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
teaching and learning processes in business schools worldwide, Hunt was 93. Hunt was one of the first to bring to the attention of the academic community the problems related to the management of working capital and to make constructive... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
continued to connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, after 20 years in finance, with stints at Goldman Sachs... View Details
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
know Christie’s daughter and grandson, and they later asked me to join the board of Agatha Christie Limited,” explains Wood. Now the chief operating officer for the Council for Economic Education, a nonprofit focused on financial literacy... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
STUDENTS "Enjoy whatever you are doing or move on." CURRENT READING Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers As the overseer of Singapore's economic direction for many years, Philip Yeo... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
dismiss as irrelevant by general readers. So can globalization truly be said to exist or prevail where people have little interest in, knowledge of, or exposure to world affairs? From my experience of living in Latin America for a number of years, America gets into... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive tasks, pattern recognition, problem solving, and honesty. These... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
company and made it the foundation of the IBM Marketing Cloud. While exploring what was next, Nussey wrote a book. Your Mountain is Waiting: Practical Advice For Forging A Mission In Life, came together as he shifted his attention and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
attention has focused on clean energy and the climate crisis. In May, KPCB announced its second fund in green technology, bringing its total investment in green solutions to $1.2 billion. Doerr describes green tech as “the largest View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
particular companies in each country. To catch students' attention immediately, they chose companies with name recognition, such as Toyota, Wedgwood, Ford, and IBM. The companies were also selected to include functional areas of interest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
prisons, and garbage collection among them — has been attempted, When All Else Fails argues that government has been and will inevitably continue to be the nation's ultimate risk manager and insurer of last resort. Drawing on history and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive director at Lakeshore Ethnic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
staggering $119 billion in annual [2013] gambling losses toward funding entrepreneurship and innovation, what change—and economic value—might be achieved?” Among the equity-crowdfunding platforms now jockeying for listings and the View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
worker productivity, equality of opportunity and economic mobility, even economic growth—are consequently all eroding and threatening the economic, civil, and political life of our democracy. Of course, Adam... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows how a culture that has existed for centuries can be warped and transformed by external forces like war and colonialism, and how members of an ethnic group migrate to survive not only drastic changes but economic realities. Borders... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun (left) and Professor Leemore Dafny (right); image by John Ritter Professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Emeritus Johnson & Johnson Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com EARLIER EDUCATION College of the Holy Cross, 1947 B.S., Economics LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS had a... View Details