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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government agencies work. “Everybody tells you that working in private View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
case UBS discovers that its stance on global warming lags behind industry competitors. UBS considers four options in its approach to global warming. First, it could do nothing and stabilize its emissions at the company’s 2005 levels with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Deal Me In
Black Photo Courtesy Fitdeck Have you heard about the latest must-have exercise equipment? Your local gym doesn’t have it, and that’s just fine with its inventor, Phil Black (MBA ’02), who’d rather see it in your shirt pocket. Black, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
up. This is the category in which you’ll find a growing list of concepts like escape rooms, high-tech art animations, virtual-reality pop-ups, and interactive, Instagram-ready dreamscapes. On the more traditional side, it also includes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a rapidly View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
industrial economy. That economy was Germany’s. Then, as today, there was a fine line between symbiosis and rivalry. Could anything trigger another breakdown of globalization like the one that happened in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Renaissance Man
matter; that experience launched a lifelong passion for collecting 15th- and 16th-century French and Italian Renaissance books. Brooker, a veteran of the finance industry who later earned a doctorate in art... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
representing a large part of what remains of the American industrial economy. Should these companies file for Chapter 11 and fail to get financing, there could be a loss of several million jobs. But the threat is far worse than those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
but with outside technology and partnerships across industries as well. “He mixed and matched these elements brilliantly, of course, infused the remix with Apple’s unique design sensibility, and created a new business model that totally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
three-time entrepreneur and coauthor of Entrepreneurs in the Midst “The only advice I was ever given that bore fruit was that the art of writing is the art of application—the application of the seat of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
director, and started small by simply updating the museum’s English-language entry on Wikipedia. That led to conducting strategy, management, and proposal-writing workshops for, among others, the National Museum, the Royal University of View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
turn, moving ideas on new paths to market and perhaps even publishing research to enhance industry knowledge will provide new and important ways for companies to realize the value of their discoveries. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
As a student at HBS, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) lived on four dollars a day, teaching the martial arts discipline of Muay Thai and sending the extra cash home to his mother and brother in Bangkok. “Everything I owned could fit into a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
was being poorly managed." The two men arranged to meet again. A month later in New York City, they shook hands over dinner and agreed to work together. "I was shocked when I discovered how much the music industry favored the record... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
several areas. Working with a few retailers as a young principal at the firm in the early 1980s, she realized that retailing, which represents one-third of the American economy, could benefit from McKinsey's management expertise. "The timing was terrific, because the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
committee members Glenn Close, Richard Gere, Liam Neeson, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon, among many others.) In 2009, Apkon oversaw the opening of the JBFC’s $15 million, 27,000-square-foot Media Arts Lab that offers classes in... View Details