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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Schwarzman is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, and the founder of the Schwarzman Scholars, a graduate fellowship program housed at the new Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has just written a new book,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
"considerable difficulty" in getting the magazine out on time, had cut the publication schedule to six times a year and set a subscription price of 75¢ a year, which was included in the $2 annual Alumni Association dues. Bates, who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
part of Harvard's “American Secretaries of State Project” that Sebenius and Mnookin have co-directed since 2014 with Nicholas Burns (now U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China). War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
produced a number of tableware and specialty items as well as art-glass, on which artists—most of them immigrants from central Europe—did painting and engraving. Westmoreland was the country's leading glass-decorating house for more than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these crimes in the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational models of business strategy, competition in telecommunications and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
examiner with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw NASA projects to see how well they were adhering to presidential policy, as well as being stewards of the taxpayers’ money. “After years of aerospace being... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Books; bookstore and publishing house founder I fell in love with reading when I read Charlotte’s Web as a little girl and it made me cry. I realized then that books can really make you feel. But it can be hard to make time for books in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
the lead car was almost thrown out several times. But the company has actually managed to change the world, which is pretty cool. That doesn’t happen all the time.” “The vision has always been compelling, and it’s always been bold,” Wilcox says during my visit to E... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. (Netflix also recently debuted Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Tina Fey–created comedy originally slated for NBC.) Even live sports, cable’s best hope for retaining subscribers, can be viewed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
area in 1989 so his children could attend the prestigious Cranbrook schools in the city’s northern suburbs, which his wife, Julie, had also attended. READ MORE John Rhea on why Detroit, with tens of thousands of abandoned homes, needs more View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
for me, there's a Staples at the corner. I park, grab my laptop and my briefcase, and sprint down the street. The guy at Staples tells me I can recover my disk with Norton Utilities. I tell him I'm no tekkie, but he tells me it's real easy to use. I'm in a hurry, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this success was achieved. Heroes Wanted: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out by Rodney D. Bullard (AMP 187, 2014) Harvest House Publishers With all the hardships and unmet needs in the world, it’s difficult to believe one... View Details