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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study of the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
this work as part of the World Health Organization.” You were Hong Kong’s health director during the 2003 SARS outbreak. What did you learn from that experience? The SARS experience showed that decisive national and international action, taking full advantage of View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
that has been disrupted by the earthquakes, including agriculture and animal husbandry—to remain in place and not have to settle elsewhere. “This allows them to modernize their lifestyle but still allows them to live with their animals... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
annual energy demand. The Passive House movement got its start in Germany in the early 1990s; by the mid-2010s, there were an estimated 60,000 Passive House buildings in the world. But many of those are boxy, View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Pagliuca. The Life Lab will contribute to building a thriving start-up community in Allston by seeding the campus with early stage scientific ventures. Together with the i-lab and Launch Lab, the Life Lab will foster the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
that become essential to the economic success of fashion designers in the marketplace. (Her research on the market for modern and contemporary fine art in India also bears out this phenomenon.) “One of the most well-accepted axioms of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Tosh Barron (MBA 1972) grew up outside of London, studying modern dance and competing on her high school’s sports teams. After college, while teaching physical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Early in his career, for example, he revived the Investment Management course, developing new and timely materials that soon attracted approximately five hundred students per year. As Associate Dean for Executive Education and External... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part of the group that helped set up a second,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
was proposed in this country’s Constitution and codified in its modern form in 1836, began to have serious problems in 1982. What went wrong? Two fundamental changes occurred that weakened the system considerably. The first had to do with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
experienced," says Smith. "It's important to establish the fundamentals of general management early in one's career, but sometimes there aren't any precedents to follow. You're simply trying to meet challenges on a day-to-day basis."... View Details