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- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
rehabilitation projects that resulted in affordable housing, and finally took on historic rehabilitation projects by themselves, working in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Today, the company focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
leadership. When the School reaches the close of its capital campaign at the end of December, it is safe to say the historic fundraising effort will have been a resounding success. The Campaign for Harvard Business School exceeded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
by Carmen Nobel Taking Care of Business: Marlene Krauss, Mary Falvey, Annon Adams, and Vicki Keller, circa 1967. Photo courtesy of Baker Library historical collections, HBS In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
decreased supply of traditional food exports of wheat and corn from Russia and Ukraine will also result in rising prices, Shih said. "You'll pay more for everything that uses wheat and corn and flour.” Harvard Ukrainian Research... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation, which would eventually View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
for example, became Jefferson’s adopted home following his surgery and recuperation. As a White House Fellow working in the Department of Commerce, he organized the historic first trip of the White House Fellows to Hawaii. Within two... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding. Ultimately, this renewed passion for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
their world. “The early results show that trust in most major institutions is declining. People trust the government less, they trust the media less, they trust religion less,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the sustained, excellent business results achieved during his tenure leading General Electric. Bill Schleyer, AT&T: I would also pick Bush, as well as Prime Minister Tony Blair. I think their unequivocal, immediate, ongoing response to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
highlight how large companies in traditional industries—from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals—are using digital to gain strategic advantage. They illuminate the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation. Their View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
resource to solve a problem. Highly accessible in a scant 100 pages, the ideas in Building a Growth Factory may not result in an assembly line of hit products, but they will make innovation "repeatable and reliable," allowing companies to... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom announced in early 2013, adds... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
paths, the end result is a positive one. Over the summer, the Bulletin had a chance to talk to this year’s honorees, who arrive on campus September 28 to accept their awards. For complete profiles, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/. Susan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a framework for reform. For his efforts, the panel acknowledged his key role “in conceptualizing and drafting” significant parts of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
underground economic activities work to put cyber currencies in context, the book discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cyber currencies in today's underground economy. It also includes an appendix of illuminating primary documents, providing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
governance and management and citing examples of executives' tendency to avoid reality when times get tough. Maritime Piracy by Robert Haywood (MBA 1977, DBA 1979) and Roberta Spivak (Routledge) After summarizing the historical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
the consumer.'" Odd as it sounds, the customer has not been a historical focus for the movie theater industry. As Ramsey points out, the business got going in the 1930s and 1940s, when it was typical for one print of a movie to be... View Details